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Excerpt from "Mama Thompson and Peanut" by Andre Keitt

"They're back!" Mama Thompson said as she got up as fast as she could and grabbed the firecrackers she had kept hidden underneath her china cabinet. Squeezing quietly out of the back door, she reached up and unscrewed the bulb that lit the back porch. The entire backyard was blanketed in darkness. Then she picked up the floor mop and held it out like she was holding a gun.

She heard the boys in the garden whispering,"there goes that old lady," she heard one of them say. "She got a gun," another boy whispered. Just then Mama Thompson took out some matches and lit the firecrackers, and quickly threw them over the trees in the garden. When the boys heard the popping, they screamed, "and she can shoot that thing too, run!" ©

journey writer's grants and gifts

2022

$500 grant from the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund in support of publishing an anthology of our members' work

$250 grant from Stanley Black & Decker to support "Journey Writers Tell the Whole Story: Queer Black History - I Put a Spell on You"

$5100 grant from Connecticut Humanities, the statewide, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities

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2021

$2000 grant from the Betty Knox Foundation to support “Word of the Month” on WQTQ-FM

$1000 grant from the Hartford Pride Committee to support three online programs for Hartford Pride Month

$100 gift from Kamora’s Cultural Corner to support three (3) online programs for Hartford Pride Month

2019

$500 gift from New England Donor services to support the “I Love to Tell the Story” presentation

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