Permission

Some things are never said out loud. Some feelings get filed away, explained as something smaller, something safer — until the right person, the right city, the right night makes them impossible to ignore any longer.

Permission is a collection of stories about Black women who stop waiting for someone else to give them what they've always wanted. A forbidden neighbor in Paris. Old friends in New Orleans and years of silence finally broken. A late-night swim in the Blue Ridge Mountains. A transatlantic flight and hours of honesty with a stranger. A wedding morning and everything that happened the night before.

Each story is its own world. Each one burns slow and pays off completely.

This is a collection about permission. Not the kind someone gives you. The kind you give yourself.

Explicit content. Adult readers only