I am a 33 year old linguist, novelist, essayist, chess-player, poet, pianist, and artist. I have been writing since I was a child and have published novels, short stories, academic treaties, and collections of poetry.
A young American slave kills his master & his wife in antebellum South Carolina and flees north in search of freedom. Unable to escape his past and addicted to painkillers, he returns to the scene of the crime in search of forgiveness