Chocolate Park
CHOCOLATE PARK is the debut chapbook from up and coming writer, Chesya Burke, and it reminds us of something we read horror to escape: that true horror exists all around us. Let's face it, the usual model of a horror novel or story is to have horror intrude upon the ordinary. You're sitting around in your middle class life, minding your own business, when suddenly, this "other" barges in from the outside.
"With CHOCOLATE PARK, the horror lies as close as what CNN or your local news refuses to cover. Poverty, drugs, (mis) education all play into the cycle of horror that exists in those areas of towns that "decent folk" don't go to." - Maurice Broaddus, author of King Maker
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Chesya Burke
Chesya Burke has published over forty short stories in various venues including Dark Dreams: Horror and Suspense by Black Writers, Voices from the Other Side, and Whispers in the Night, each published by Kensington Publishing Corp. as well as the historical, science, and speculative fiction magazine, Would That It Were, and many more. Several of her articles appeared in the African American National Biography, published by Harvard and Oxford University Press, and she won the 2004 Twilight Tales award for short fiction. Chesya attends Agnes Scott College, where she studies creative writing and the African diaspora as it relates to race, class and gender. Many of these themes find themselves appearing in her fiction.
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