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Books & stage plays

Getting Sober on Sibley and Third

Fiction · Out now

On a rain-slicked corner where the liquor store light meets the church steeple, one woman's reckoning with addiction becomes a story about grace, memory, and the long walk back to herself.

The collection

Stories written for the page and the stage

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Fiction

Getting Sober on Sibley and Third

On a rain-slicked corner where the liquor store light meets the church steeple, one woman's reckoning with addiction becomes a story about grace, memory, and the long walk back to herself.

Out now

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Stage Play

A Dream That Never Sleeps

A stage work about ambition carried across generations — the dreams we inherit, the ones we refuse, and the ones that keep us awake until they are finally spoken aloud.

Live stage production

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Stage Play

Meeting Jesus at 3pm

A faith-rooted drama set in the ordinary afternoon hours, where an unremarkable appointment becomes the turning point of a life. Staged by CASOE Youth Theater at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit.

CASOE Youth Theater

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Stage Play

Ain't Nobody Stoppin' This Train

A rousing ensemble production about momentum, community, and the unstoppable pull forward when a people decide to move together.

Live stage production

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Stage Play

Tomorrow We'll Cross The Ocean

Written and directed by Janice Smith for CASOE Youth Theater — a story of young people standing at the water's edge of their own futures, and the crossing they make together.

CASOE Youth Theater, Detroit

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Stage Play

The Boy From Hutchinson Street

A Detroit coming-of-age story staged by CASOE Theater Company's Creative Performing Arts program, written by Janice Smith.

CASOE Theater Company

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