This was why their former enslavers never stopped hunting them. This was why slave catchers came to Boston armed with federal warrants. Ellen and William…
The station loomed ahead, its platform lit by gas lamps that cast long shadows across the tracks. Only a handful of passengers waited for the…
The sick young gentleman was now part of the scenery, too pathetic to be interesting. But in the rear car, William was facing a different…
And when that happened, there would be no helpful stranger to intervene. No convenient excuse to offer. Just Ellen alone, facing someone who might actually…
Ellen produced the paper with her left hand, the right still cradled in its sling. The officer examined it, then looked back at her face,…
The same society that had created her would refuse to recognize her, blinded by its own assumptions about who could occupy which spaces. But assumptions…
I ran through the bewildered city, a ghost in the storm, following an internal compass that pointed me away from the palace, away from my…
The hope in my father’s eyes died, replaced by a cold, hard resignation. The king had won. The father was gone. He leaned back on…
When I finally closed the book, the world had changed. Or rather, I had changed in it. The silence in the room was no longer…

Have you ever felt a void that privilege cannot fill? I had 12 luxury cars and palaces of gold. Yet, I was starving. My soul…




