I finally did it!! I recovered from writer's block by digging back into my archives of unused stories, and went KDP Select in the process. But as the cover says, they are "shorts," 99 cents on Kindle. And sometimes only your one of your besties will write a review for a 50-page book, even when I beat her at Words With Friends some of the time.
Thank you, Vicki.
Enjoyable, engaging, and thought-provoking read., January 18, 2015
This review is from: Adventures in Blackface: and other shorts (Paperback)
I enjoyed reading Sarah Weathersby's newest book, a group of two
short stories and a poem. Her detailed and descriptive writing is
engaging and thought provoking. In the central story, Adventures in
Blackface, the nuances of relationships between black and white students
in the 1960's was poignantly described as was the conflicted and
ambivalent feelings held by both black and white students of that early
period of integration on northern college campuses. The second short
story, Dusty's Last Stand, is a lighter and humorous story about a dog
and his master that precisely captured the setting and the personalities
of the characters. It was the third piece though, a poem entitled If
I had drunk from the colored water fountain, that I was most drawn to. Beautifully written, it is moving and powerful, and brilliantly exposes a slice of experience of a black child growing up in the Jim Crow south. Sarah Weathersby, I look forward to reading more of your work and hope you are working on more poetry.
I had drunk from the colored water fountain, that I was most drawn to. Beautifully written, it is moving and powerful, and brilliantly exposes a slice of experience of a black child growing up in the Jim Crow south. Sarah Weathersby, I look forward to reading more of your work and hope you are working on more poetry.
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