Skin Deep Magic: Short Fiction Photographers back doors

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a condemnation of every social constraint acting on heterosexual unions

engrossing" (Publishers Weekly) coming-of-age story about a teen hometown hero who must find out who he is outside of basketball when his coming out as gay costs him his popularity and place on the team

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

looking past the fashionable and figuring out how to define the real

Skin Deep Magic: Short Fiction Photographers back doorsMagic 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.