To dive in the darkness, I should dive in the truth, then in images of the world..., then facts, then in books, then listening, then in short stories... that's how I write the horror. It's very complicated.
I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.
Black Girl in Paris
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