The following sample is taken from within my debut novel, Graveslinger, coming out Summer of 2021. Two decades ago, Little Fiya Ann Pratt Diaz crawled out of bed late one night in the outer suburbs of San Antonio, Texas. She was a small child in baggy pajamas, barefoot, and dark-chocolate hair flowing in waves past her bottom who had a bad habit of being wide awake in the middle of the night. Sometimes she’d sneak down and watch whatever was on television, but, most of the ti