Black Men Reading Speculative Fiction & Hurricane Jane

 Black Men Reading Speculative Fiction. Tempest Bradford put it best:  "Like it Says on the Can." Zig Zag Claybourne invited me to read in formation with some real truth seekers and heat speakers: Maurice Broaddus, Gerald L. Coleman, Errick Nunnally, and the Milton Davis. I read from my work in progress, my current obsession, Burn It All Down: The True Story of Hurricane Jane.

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It's an alternate history weird western that crosses borders and empires. For the last five years, it's buried me up to my neck in the histories and mythos of West Africa, Mexico, Europe, and Native American nations, particularly the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois). I think I have about seven thousand more words to write before I start revisions. But I haven't been this excited for a story since Day Dreamer.   The reading went well.

 "Is this fire or is this FIRE??!! Do we need a water hose? Let the church say..." - ZIG-ZAG CLAYBOURNE

"Let him burn!" 
"NAW, let everything/one burn!"
"Let it burn."
"BURN!!!!" -THE CHURCH

"The Deacon hears. FIIIIIIRE!!!!!" - ZIG-ZAG CLAYBOURNE

After reading the first chapter, my friend Professor Yvonne Chireau used AI to create images of Hurricane Jane, my main character. This was my favorite of the pics that she sent me.