"The Diaspora Cafe"

"The Diaspora Cafe"

Short Story (Prose) · Drama · 18 pages
Chidi Creek can't wait to sell The Diaspora Cafe to beverage giant Super Nova. Never mind that it had once been her dead father's diner and the heart of Five Points. Now, all that stand between her and a small fortune are community uproar, an unhoused vet with PTSD, and the legacy of her father -- a man who often put duty before family.
Written by Vince Omni
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Vince Omni
Tallahassee, FL
Vince is a McKnight Doctoral Fellow in the department of English (Creative Writing) at Florida State University. His area of concentration is African-American Literary and Cultural Studies, with a focus on adapting fiction for film and television. “The Diaspora Cafe” won the 2024 Jesmyn Ward Fiction Prize from the Michigan Quarterly Review. A finali...
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