Stephanie Powell Watts teaches at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in the Pushcart Prize and Best New Stories from the South anthologies, as well as Oxford American, New Letters, African American Review, and elsewhere.
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JJ Ferguson has returned home to Pinewood, North Carolina, to build his dream house and to pursue his high school sweetheart, Ava. But as he reenters his former world, where factories are in decline and the legacy of Jim Crow is still felt, he’s startle... SEE MORE