Editor Picks — Favourite Posts On CRY Last Week
Image by Prostock StudioBack at it again with some more inspiring posts. These editor picks are more about showing gratitude than anything else. We’re thankful to all of you for choosing to share your stories on CRY.
With that said, like any proud parent, we have favourites (you know it’s true, moms). So here are a couple of pieces that caught our eye last week:
KernWhen Nathalie Clair submitted Beauty In My Hair, I wasn’t exactly excited. But as I read the first couple of lines, I knew I was in for something special. Call it prose, call it poetry, regardless, it’s beautiful and vulnerable and a real depiction of what so many Black women go through.
Favourite excerpt:
But they didn’t see her
She was background noise in human form
She smiled and laughed but inside there was no love
Tomboyish with chemically altered hair pulled back into too tight pony-tails
Or covered by colorful bandanas tied too tight in the back
Rocked a baggy t-shirt to match to cover up the excess of fat
It was the only look that made her feel cuteSafia B.
I’m always so inspired by our CRY community. From dealing with rejection to working up the nerve to hit publish on a post, each day you all share pieces about the highs and lows of writing with beautiful transparency. This week, I enjoyed reading
My Insecurities About Writing by Cristi Ackerman Wells, where she reflects on being a new writer and the insecurities she carries around “like a devil on my shoulder.”
My favourite excerpt:
So, when hope’s evil twin, doubt, comes along to tell me no one will like the piece I have poured myself into, and by proxy, not like me, I can give that bitch a little shoulder shrug, grab onto one of my pillars, and swing the other way.
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