This is a collection of short stories chronicling life in the 1950s in The Ville of St. Louis, Missouri as seen through the eyes of a pubescent Negro girl. With Black Flight as the political backdrop during this period, the stories depict lives of “fictionalized” characters within the lower/middle income families that mostly populated the tightly-connected and stable neighborhoods around…
This book contains eleven short stories based on events witnessed or imagined by the author or imagined in The Ville of the 1950s. The characters are fictionalized from the personalities, charms and behaviors that reflected members of the St. Ferdinand community and around the Poro Hotel that existed in The Ville of the 1960s and the 1970s.
This book contains eleven short stories created from bits and pieces of incidents and circumstances observed in The Ville of the 1960s and the 1970s. The characters are fictional, the amalgamation of mannerisms and traits of people frequently encountered by the author during her high school years.
