Black Girl Magic Lit Mag: Issue 4

"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones." Stephen KingHorror is a coping mechanism. Horror is a teacher, it teaches us what to be leery of, strange sounds, midnight callers, dark corners. Horror is a badge of honor, we give ourselves kudos telling each other we'd never be as dumb to open that door, go down those stairs, or answer that call. Horror is therapy and an escape from a world where the real horrors for Black people are just as atrocious as anything that people...
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"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones." Stephen KingHorror is a coping mechanism. Horror is a teacher, it teaches us what to be leery of, strange sounds, midnight callers, dark corners. Horror is a badge of honor, we give ourselves kudos telling each other we'd never be as dumb to open that door, go down those stairs, or answer that call. Horror is therapy and an escape from a world where the real horrors for Black people are just as atrocious as anything that people could dream up: cops shooting unarmed men and women in cold blood, children missing from inner cities with no public outcry, rapists getting slaps on the hands and pats on the back. An episode of American Horror Story stated "All Monsters are Human" and it's true, we are dealing with real life human monsters. The ability to sit back and read a scary story where the good guys get out alive or where we can tell ourselves we'd never be in this or that predicament is an act of self-care. So dig in and enjoy over forty-four thousand words of horror where the Black person doesn't die first!