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Everything Happens Today: Chinaberry Tree

Everything Happens Today: Chinaberry Tree

          
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The unnamed narrator, a U. S. Air Force "casualty" (there has been no war) returns from "The Republic of Free China" in a hospital plane. When he left home he was confused about his worth, his identity, his sexual understandings, his race, and his spiritual acceptance. And although he was "religious" that state provided him with very few answers. He was "good, holy, clean, moral, honest, and miserable as all hell!" as his search for love in a whirlpool of fear continually reminded him. As he often saw life from the limbs of a "Chinaberry tree," he was unprepared for the world that opened up to him away from home, and became addicted to anything that would shield him from himself; alcohol and sex to everything in between. But he can't forget the goodness of his family and the moral upbringing which follow him like sleepless ghosts. He is a bed-bound patient who is given drugs for pain every four hours. He rides these morphine-induced dreams on an inner search and discovery mission seeking to understand the road that leads to his hospital bed. His body immobilized, his dreams replay the episodes that lead him back through what has made him sick in the first place. Each time he awakes he is closer to the surface of a reality he must survive in. Gradually, his memories of the fears and failures begin to glow like infinite candles lighting the way back home. This is a love story.
About the Author: BA/MA (Magna Cum Laude) University of Bridgeport. Listed in WHO'S WHO AMONG AFRICAN AMERICANS; WHO'S WHO AMONG AMERICA'S TEACHERS; DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI/University of Bridgeport; DISTINGUISHED ADVOCATE FOR THE ARTS/Connecticut Comm. on the Arts; NAACP/Lifetime Achievement Award; AKA Heritage Award; First Prize Article/WRITER'S DIGEST; Three CCA Arts Fellowship Grants for writing; Two Plays as "Finalist" in the Theodore Ward Prize for Playwriting/Chicago IL; Plays: SKYY PIECE, and A PACHYDERM IN HARLEM read at the National Black Theater Festival in Winston-Salem NC. Plays: THE VOICE OF BONES, produced at the Playhouse on The Green/Bridgeport and The Rich Forum/Stamford CT, and GHOSTS WITH INSOMNIA produced at Juneteenth Legacy Theater/Louisville KY, & the University of Louisville, and SECRETS concert reading at Stamford CT. I have been published in THE BLACK SCHOLAR, THE GREENFIELD REVIEW, OBSIDIAN I & II, OKIKE (Nigeria), THE AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW, AFRICAN VOICES; THE SOUTH CAROLINA REVIEW, THE MISSISSIPPI REVIEW, THE SMALL POND REVIEW, THE FAIRFIELD REVIEW, and others. Poetry: CROSSING CATAWBA, short stories: PECANS, BLACKBERRIES AND GRITS. I wrote play reviews at Long Wharf and Yale Rep for INNER CITY NEWSPAPERS. I am a member of the Frank Silvera Writers Workshop, Harlem NY, and I am a former adjunct professor at UB, Sacred Heart University, and Housatonic Community College. I am an Air Force Veteran, a Postal Service retiree, and a native of Rock Hill, SC.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781494211127
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 328
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Chinaberry Tree
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1494211122
  • Publisher Date: 20 May 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 439 gr


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