Bringing Light Into Darkness

Janelle’s grandfather is a broken man. Smart and caring, he still contains a sadness that never goes away—just like the permanent limp he won’t discuss.


The limp he got in the South in the 1960s, when being a Black man falsely accused of a crime meant terrible things.


Then Janelle gets a wild, impossible chance to help her grandfather and right the injustice…. 


“Bringing Light to Darkness” originally appeared in Obsessions: An Anthology of Original Fiction, 2020.