Skin Deep Magic: Short Fiction Photographers These words are just a

These words are just a few among history's many English slurs hurled at women

a condemnation of every social constraint acting on heterosexual unions

gender non-conforming femmes

But this God is a jealous one

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Skin Deep Magic: Short Fiction Photographers These words are just aMagic is more than skin deep. It hides in the folds of a haunted quilt and illuminates the secret histories of Negro memorabilia. Magic reveals the destiny of a great storyteller and emanates from a sculpture by an obscure Harlem Renaissance artist. Magic lurks in the basement of an inner city apartment building and flourishes in a city park. Magic is more than skin deep; it shimmers in the ten stories in this collection.