“What’s that one about?” He pointed at a book with a smoky red cover. On it was a gold crown with a snake intertwined in the book title. “What that say under the title?” He leaned down, “An urban fairytale,” he read the subtitle of the book Power by an author named Bella Jay. It was part of a series I had been meaning to get around to because I enjoyed fairytale retellings, especially when they were Black.
