Magical Realism Is For Us By Us and Toni Morrison Was the Queen

Artwork by Nik Richard

I originally wrote this on the day Toni Morrison died, August 5, 2019. I was sitting in a café in Spain, crying, and wishing I had somehow showered her with roses while she was here. Our world is better because of her life.

I quit my job last year to become a writer; it was one of the wildest, most impulsive things I’ve done in my whole life. I began…