Hero
Natroya Stevens laid in bed hugging a comic from her father’s collection. That and a few other momentos were all she had left. Dying within months of a cancer diagnosis was not how she expected him to go. As a teenager she thought he still had decades more. But her dad was gone and all that talk about being a proud African American despite their barely above working class circumstances, seemed moot. No hero was coming to save her. This was real life and most of the girls who got rescued were blonde girls from perfect homes.