Linetta Alexander Islam
Bio
Linetta (Davis) Alexander Islam is a playwright, actor and a strategist based in Milwaukee.
Stories (2/0)
Summer
When Lisa and Michael stood staring at the cold lifeless body of their seventeen year old daughter, the combined and intentionally created narrative of their lives played out in their minds. They’d both been raised in the church, met in a youth retreat, promised each other to abstain from sex until they married after they had secured master’s degrees and started their careers in their competitive and lucrative fields. After buying their first home and investing in stock, having already saved enough to pay for college for at least three children, they started actively working on their dream to become parents. All of their work, all of their dreams for the future would be to prepare the way for a child, for children who would change their world, possibly change the world. After a few years of disappointments, knowing the hopelessness of infertility, they decided to adopt. It was as if the moment had been waiting for them. As soon as they had completed the necessary paperwork, one beautiful July morning, when the sun shone perfectly on their brown faces, they got a phone call from a cheery woman who announced, “We have a beautiful brown baby girl for you. If you want her.”
By Linetta Alexander Islam2 years ago in Fiction
Ephiphani
Today is the celebration of Epiphani, the fourth Saturday of the fourth month when neighborhood communities throughout the Land Reborn gathered to remember and honor the Great Mother, Sapphira, Archangel, and fearless Dragon who came to liberate us from the social and emotional towers we had built that separated and divided all kind. Our past had been one of isolation and harm and oppression; too painful to live in, and even now too troublesome to recall. We only speak of the dark days during such celebrations as today, when we have the love of community and the collective power or our interdependence shining from our hearts. The sun always shines the brightest on Epiphani, and this year especially because it is the year of Jubilee.
By Linetta Alexander Islam2 years ago in Fiction
