Something Is Holding Me Back: A Collection of Storetry

In every individual's life there are shackles, genetic and learned. They may result from insatiable appetites, i.e. sex, the need for power, to live in a world without consequences, even the need for peace of mind. And these "logs' hold us in place and we grow acquainted with them and flaunt and curse them try running from them. . . yet we always seem to meet them again.

Othello BornEl hails from the Deep South, where iced tea, bar-b-que and front porches are as much a part of life as bookshelves in libraries. His words are as practical and provoking as his heritage. His work represents the thoughts that many dare not speak and the words that some dare not listen to. This work is for those unheard souls who burn daily to be heard, experienced.