At the beginning of 2023, I wrote a short essay that was so very near and dear to my heart and submitted this little essay to 47 different literary reviews and mags, after which the rejections kept streaming through my inbox. A year later, the piece finally found a home. I’m so very grateful to Write or Die Magazine, not just for believing in these words that became “Tribute to a Lost Star”, but for nominating this work for the Sundress Best of the Net Anthology.
The piece is about literary and cinematic influences that strike us in our adolescence only to shape our sense of self and the world around us as we evolve. I hope to write more pieces like this.
Rashaan Alexis Meneses 