Reparations Ball: A Short Story

The cover drew me in but what's in the story is rather abysmal. The writing style is decent enough and the imagery had potential but honestly the idea of a west African deity written as subservient to the christian idea of Lucifer in order to make a pseudo point regarding the emotional legacy of slavery is appalling. It also felt largely like the author tried to rewrite parts of American Gods and didn't stop to wonder if that wasn't, perhaps, a point of view that wasn't his to write from.
The author's dedication to his wife at the end was probably the best part about this story.