Gentrification Stories

#1 in stories tagged with Usnavi. An In The Heights Fanfic in Sonny's POV, coping with his cousin Usnavi's decision to leave for the Dominican Republic and continues wit...

Religion. Pain. Struggle. This is all that Jaclyn knew for most of her life growing up in her hometown of Bethany, California, where the word of God and guns were the o...

Brooklyn, 1998. Love in the time before Facebook.

New York is the city of dreams to some people. To others they see this city as a hell hole. This piece shows New York City from the perspective of an African American ma...

Tourists fall in love with Savannah as a relic of hospitality. Its residents are kind and affectionate, sweet like the tea they drink. Its live oak groves hang in histor...

When Izara first moved to the neighborhood, the Shade felt vibrant and warm. Over the past few hundred years, it's grown cloudy and foggy, and Izara's neighbors have bec...

The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb... Roneisha Gibson is a young woman navigating the streets of Austin. Businesswoman by day, hustler by ni...

fading in and out of the layers of thought. 14 May 2015 2:43pm

This excerpt is taken from the first time collaboration between authors Ran Walker and Sabin Prentis. The original collection of short stories explores the lives of four...

The fireflies have always kept Jasmine safe in their haven. It was in this starry sanctuary that Jasmine mourned her father's death, and escaped the cruelty of the worl...

During the day, he's just nice calm Mihai, always looking out for the little guy and trying to find his place in the world. At night, it's more of the same, but as High...

Another collection of random poems I've recorded as they came to me. Please vote and comment on the entries that resonated with you. I'd love to hear your thoughts :)

A painting of a complicated city.

The handpuppets who play their role inside the facade. Those who retreat without being responsible for their gentrification, gerrymandering, racism and fascism. There's...

Bereft and broken, an erstwhile trophy wife searches in vain for equilibrium at the bottom of a wine bottle. A meditation on loss untempered by acceptance, told in seven...

Time, for better or worse ultimately always begets change. Zeke's Kitchen, a well-known Detroit, Michigan east-side Soul Food restaurant has been devastated by the closi...