Spirit Babies: The Other Side

Not every story ends in grace. This companion volume follows six more people — a father who ran and lost everything trying to keep running, a woman in recovery with no ceremony waiting for her, a partner who never forgives and never has to, a man in prison writing letters that stop coming back — through the same reckoning, without the soft landing.

Among them is the author’s own accounting, told in his own words for the first time.

The Other Side doesn’t flinch from what healing actually costs, or pretend it always comes — and insists the people living through it still deserve to be seen whole.

Tags: spirit babies, short stories, anthology, grief, addiction recovery, faith, memoir, African American fiction