Samantha is a New York designer by day, and a fiction writer by subway commute, lunch, and night. With two featured short stories, Yzabella and Visibly Invisible, Samantha captures the raw and unique experiences of Black and Latinx people through a fictional and sometimes fantastical lens. She creates impactful and relatable characters of color, reflecting real life ordeals that often go unnoticed in the world. When Samantha is not writing or designing, you can find her most likely binge-watching sci-fi and fantasy shows on Netflix.

“If y’all weren’t so difficult, maybe it’ll be easier to get a man.” “Y‘all? Difficult?” I repeat the triggering words as if they can somehow mean something else. They sting

Shattering glass echoes in my ears, snapping my head up from my phone. Right across the street, the front window

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