Horseback Riding While Black
When I was nine, I BEGGED my parents to let me attend horse camp. Because, when I was a kid, I was obsessed with magical worlds where...
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Jestine Ware
Jul 1, 2019
Ode to Octavia
Octavia Butler is one of my writing heroes. Before her books, I don’t know that I’d ever read a science fiction series that consumed all...
Jestine Ware
May 1, 2019
Prin and the House That Flies
After a Once Upon a time and a Happily Ever After, Prin was born to Queens Mikaylah and Cala in a beautiful, peaceful land. The kingdom...
Jestine Ware
Mar 15, 2019
Teenage Poet
As I write YA and Middle Grade stories, I try to remember how I felt then and go back to the records I kept of my younger self. I had no...
Jestine Ware
Aug 14, 2018
Moonlight Stained
Mercury. A god is falling from molecules of nitrogen, oxygen, argon, and carbon dioxide. This particular god is particularly pictured...
Jestine Ware
Jul 15, 2018
The Truth About Hair
This piece is a throwback to 2014 when I was struggling to come to terms with my hair and wrote this long mixed-media piece called "The...
Jestine Ware
Mar 15, 2018
Found Object: Dream Diary
How do you find your best ideas? One of the ways I find my stories is through lucid dreams right before I wake up. In and out of...
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