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That Time I Thought A “Rolling Calf” Was Chasing Me

This is a story about that one time I thought I was being chased by a creature from Jamaican mythology called a rolling calf. Please, let me explain: In Jamaican …

“Love Out Loud” by Natalee Clark-Richards – Virtual Book Launch on March 20, 2021

Love Out Loud is an inspiring book by Natalee Clarke-Richards, Success Coach, speaker, and author. Love Out Loud is an autobiographical reflection on the courage, creativity, and determination that propelled Natalee through her journey of positive self-transformation. I recently blogged about human needs and the importance of self-actualization and Natalee’s book—her experiences and positive outlook …

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Self-Transformation & The Health Factor

There is nothing more terrifying than being 42 years old, looking at your own blood test results, and immediately realizing that you could have a heart attack and die at any given moment. Even though my doctor’s note on the results promised that we will be having a very serious discussion about my numbers at …

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The Value of Harnessing Happiness

Harnessing happiness is simply inviting joy and a general sense of contentment into your life. It’s having a sense of fulfillment and satisfaction in life. Happiness is a subjective state of being and it means different things to different people. You could be the poorest person on the planet and be quite content with the …

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Memento Mori (short story)

Ivy arrived on the ragged edge of a storm. It was wet, wild, and humid in the Myakka boonies. At first, she simply sat there in the borrowed red Corolla, watching the windshield wipers dance back and forth. She grew impatient after a few minutes. She killed the car’s headlights, then the engine. She pushed …

Kingdom of Lethe (short story)

“I don’t have any beautiful memories.” The woman who uttered those words perched on the cracked edge of Nedra’s leather chair with all the grace of a Queen of Sheba. She leaned forward. Tiny diamonds crested at the curves of her eyebrows, making her over-large eyes seem abnormally bright, almost predatory. “It’s occurred to me,” …

FIYAH Literary Magazine: Poetry Acquiring Editor

I’m inordinately thrilled to announce my debut as Poetry Acquiring Editor for the phenomenal speculative fiction publication, FIYAH Literary Magazine. FIYAH Literary Magazine is an award-winning speculative fiction publication created to amplify the voices of the Black speculative fiction writers. Voices that had been suppressed and gone unheard for far …

Space Age Mermaid (short story)

Sulily sleeps suspended inside a transparent, cylindrical womb filled with luminous blue fluid. Her suit sticks to her body like a second skin and has knobby nodes that run up the length of her spine and end at the soft helmet’s base at the back of her neck. From the center of the helmet, wires …

Space Age Mermaid

Sulily sleeps suspended inside a transparent, cylindrical womb filled with luminous blue fluid. Her suit sticks to her body like a second skin and has knobby nodes that run up the length of her spine and end at the soft helmet’s base at the back of her neck. From the …

The Origins of “Space Age Mermaid”

I’ve been told that my love affair with words began when I was four years old. I guess I was reading, books, newspapers, and bibles, anything I could get my grubby little hands on, by the time I was five. Despite that love of reading, writing stories wasn’t an idea …