Catch “Honey Buns and Cream Soda in the Stairwell” as Story of the Week in Narrative Magazine, kicking off Pride Month.
As a struggling queer, black writer from the NYC trenches, this is a dream come true. Stories about my community rarely reach mainstream audiences. If this resonates with you, please share it with anyone that would appreciate it. It would mean the world to me.
Culture changes through art, but only if we share it.
Spend a day with trans teenage castaway Alma Castillo during the summer of 1991 from a hopeful start to a careless assault, and the fallout of her unhealthy and self-destructive coping mechanisms. Catch it on the main page of Narrative Magazine for rest of the week! ✨💕✨
Alma, Zayn, Paige, Jordan, Gianna, and Jasmine are fictional characters but the people that they represent have lived very real lives. I honor them, and myself, through these stories.
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I hail from the same world as the one that my characters inhabit: Bronx homeless shelters, the Sugar Hill neighborhood of Harlem, Brooklyn projects, and the Manhattan piers of yesteryear. My project utilizes years of hands-on research inside NYC’s underground queer community and my own life as a queer black boy in hostile ghettos. I feel uniquely positioned to tell these stories because I have lived them and have the drive necessary to bring them to life in a way that I believe can change the landscape of queer black fiction.– A.T. Steel
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