Packing The Funeral Singer

I love packing The Funeral Singer. It’s a ceremony. It’s an experience of touch (textured silk), sight (pearl button, feather patterns on lapis lazuli clutch with gold threads), and smell (frankincense and myrrh oil) for the reader. It’s sound: music experienced through words (and a curated outside arts list). It’s a world packed into short…

Ending in hours… Event Horizon

Time. Getting. So. Slow. For. An. Observer. Of. This. Campaign. Don’t be an observer, then. Join our backer crew with a project pledge, as there’s only a future ahead when you cross into this book, my debut short story collection. Only hours left to support our Kickstarter campaign to publish this book, we end Friday…

A Nuyorican Tale: Review with Essay

A personal review, mixed with memoir, on the dynamic jazz concert featuring Carlos Henriquez’s A Nuyorican Tale, at Dizzy’s Club on December 26th 2023. Sold out crowd. forgive typos in captions. Personal note on the father jail cell lesson mentioned: it was also about landing in a place you shouldn’t be in, but life is…