The Devil in Angelica

The devil in Angelicia is a novella about a young man and woman in the South coming of age in a university setting. Steffon, a Black male who comes from meager circumstances, falls in love with a rich debonair white female. Steffon finds that Angelica is basically a white girl in 'Black drag'": for all intent and purpose she is a sister who likes Southern Comfort, partying, basketball, and Black men. Steffon learns that, in reality, people may be different colors but have the same fears, shed the same tears, and die in so many years. Their relationship is indee, a stormy one.Jay

Jay Thomas Willis was born in East Texas. He graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University with a B.S. degree in sociology. He also graduated from Texas Southern University with a M.Ed. in counseling, in addition to receiving a MSW in social work from the University of Houston. Willis has held numerous social work positions over the past seventeen years, and has now turned to freelance writing. He has written several books, and currently writes Op-Ed Commentaries for the Chicago Defender. He lives in Richton Park Illinois, with his wife and son.