Me, Myself & Why

**Originally posted on Writers at Large in the Riff section on January 14, 2021, this is an essay in which I interview myself about I story I wrote, Skip the Lake, which examines white complicity in systemic racism through the relationship of two teenage boys.

Photo courtesy of Erin Ryan Burdette’s iphone from the Facebook page of Writers at Large/RIFF

Thea Temple, founder and CEO of Writers at Large read my short story, “Skip the Lake,” published in the Creative…