Faye McCray

I had to be about twelve years old.  Give or take a few months.  It was summer in the early nineties so I was probably wearing an oversized t-shirt and colored shorts of the TLC/Mary J. Blige variety.  My relaxed hair was likely brushed into a ponytail, with a blue bubble clip holding together my thick strands (because…

Yellow Belt will be released January 29th! Yellow Belt is the second story in a four-part series of short stories following a young college girl as she braves the zombie apocalypse.  For those of you who did not get to read White Belt, the first story in the series, it will be FREE January 26-28th in celebration of…

Do a dance! It’s a new year! I hope everyone had a happy and healthy evening. I am moving forward fearlessly into 2014.  I’ll be 33 this year, which is a pretty respectable age.  I’ve learned some thangs.  Did some thangs. Felt some thangs.  I’m somebody’s momma (two somebody’s). Somebody’s wife (one somebody).  I am decidely and…

“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in…

Yesterday, I learned a dear friend passed away.  I sat on my tan carpet with my legs crossed and my laptop cradled in my lap.  In the kitchen, my sons chatted with their mouths full over graham crackers and raisins.  I glanced out the window beside where I sat and the late afternoon sun was descending in the sky.  The…

So, I wrote this little article over on Black Girl Nerds that seems to be causing quite the firestorm.  I wrote the article after seeing SNL’s skit, White Christmas, an attempted parody of black film. Venture on over to BGN and let me know what you think, then if you feel like witnessing the firestorm,…