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Darnishia Bolden
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Georgia born. Lived for a minute in California. Had my tongue baptized to coffee, cream and sugar before I was six. Read Once is Not Enough when I was nine and followed it up with To Kill a Mockingbird at ten. Twelve years old, I preferred the violin to friends but by then I??d already been inspired to WRITE!
I wrote an e-book (for Mightywords.com), Delilah's Fruit the summer of 2000. Penned the novel Small Pleasures: Mya??s Story in 2006. And received an honorable mention from the National Organization of Women for the short story Her Voice.
I love to read. In fact, I probably read more than I write. And I write quite often. So often that I have piles and stacks of post-it-notes, papers, etc. with scribbled ideas, poetry and stories on them.
I also "collect" favorite people and characters from books. Here are a few:
1. Absalom - (Bible) David??s son. The Word says: In all Israel there was not a man so highly praised for his handsome appearance as Absalom. From the top if his head to the sole of his foot there was not a blemish in him. Weeeeell, Absalom killed his brother, Amnon for raping their sister Tamar (Absalom and Tamar had the same mother. Back then it was okay, well its still seems to be okay for a man to have a million children by a million different women). Amnon, literally sick with desire and love for Tamar, tricked her to his room, raped her then despised her. In fact he hated her more than he had loved her. So, my hero, Absalom heard of it but remained calm and steady, plotting all the while until he was afforded the precise moment - had Amnon slaughtered.
2. Deborah - (Bible). I never heard much about her while growing up. Not many Sunday school stories. I found Deborah when I started reading the Bible for myself. She was a prophetess and told Barak that the Lord had commanded him into battle. Barak said he would not go without her and she politely replied: So be it but if I go, the glory will be mine. Even still Barak wasn??t the one to kill the commander of the other army, that too was done by the hands (a hammer and nail in the temple of the man) of a woman. Deborah??s tale isn??t as detailed and extraordinarily written as most of the men in the Bible. But still, it is a glory story for me. She could have said, I can??t go. I must sit underneath this tree and receive messages from God, plus I gotta fry okra for my husband tonight.
3, 4. Steward & Deek - the twins in Toni Morrison??s Paradise. Deek was the mild, gentle one, the one who has the affair with Consolata. Steward with his take no prisoner??s attitude: ??Listen here,? he said, his voice thick and shapely with Blue Boy. ??If you, any one of you, ignore, change, take away, or add to the words in the mouth of that Oven I will blow your head off just like you was a hood-eye snake.? Yes, I know. That was a bit strong but sometimes you gotta put your foot down with young folks. I liked just about every character in this novel. But had I lived in the town, I probably would have been sneaking to the convent house, getting my head shaved, eating a bowl of buttery sweet corn from the gardens and drinking wine. I??d have been there when Steward & Deek, and the other men did that drive by . . . well that ??walk in.?
5. Sixo - in Toni Morrison??s Beloved. Indigo with a flame-red tongue. Speaker of English and another language. Thinker. Potato baker. Clever planter. Rescuer of small babies. Lover of the Thirty-Mile Woman. Singer of songs. Laughter with shouts of ??Seven-O, Seven-O? while his trousers smoke. His laughter keeps putting out the fire, so the men have to shoot him to shut him up. Passage from pg 321: Suddenly he remembers Sixo trying to describe what he felt about the Thirty-Mile Woman. ??She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It??s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.?
Darni's Genres: fiction, drama, short stories, a tiny bit of erotica (mostly depends on my mood and how the wind blows)
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