When Sparks Fly

Welcome to another of Nana’s writings. In this short Black/ African romantic fiction, Nana explores complex issues of race, culture, and diaspora in love and romantic relationships. Despite the insurmountable difficulties and challenges of relationships, there is still hope for love. This story follows Ken, a forty-five-year-old divorced father of three, on his second chance at love; and Effie, a forty-three-year-old single mother of one on a chance at being with the man of her dreams. Try the field of loved one more time, Ken’s mother kept telling him after his wife of 17 years left the marriage for another man. Sometimes all we need is a heap of faith and a willingness to give a chance, those were the last words of Effie’s dying father.