Essays on staying — on chosen fidelity, tenderness across years, and the daily practice of belonging to another person.
To write a Black couple as ordinary, sensual, curious, and beloved is quietly one of the more radical things contemporary fiction can do — and readers are showing up for it.
Representation in romance is not a checkbox. It decides who gets to be tender on the page, whose intimate life is treated as literature, and whose love the culture agrees is worth the reader's time.
Longing is not the absence of love — it is love folded up small enough to fit inside the hours we spend apart. An essay on the erotics of waiting.