Southern Prayers

Reprinted from Spring 2024 Killens Review of Arts & Letters

You may have noticed, I’ve been on a bit of a hiatus from posting for a while. That wasn’t intentional or planned; see, late last summer, I decided my next post would be a short story I first wrote in 2021, set in Freedom in the 1930s. But as I was editing it into share-able condition, I got the idea to send it out to some literary journals and see if a…