Repost: Trickle

This was the first of my published works that was heavily molded by a dream. I submitted this to Trad, the same magazine I worked with to create “Where is Jamaica?

I had a dream where I saw modern-day black people as slaves. As I walked through my daily routine the image of any black person I saw would switch. Their clothing would morph into cheap, torn rags I associated with the era of slavery.

I formed the ending after some brainstorming, in order to give the story a proper ending.