Imagine a life where the one thing that made you different, an outcast, is the thing that turns you into someone special. That’s the basic premise behind Shilpa’s Blue Crayon by Crystal Charlotte (CC) Lane. Shilpa is a black artist who relies heavily on the...

Munyori and Johannes In 72 Hours by Crystal Charlotte (CC) Lane follows the intersecting lives of Munyori “Yori,” a driven PhD student, and Johannes “John,” a Greek American contractor, over a fast-paced three-day period in the American South at the turn of the millennium. Yori...