Cheryl J. Anthony, a two-time recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board grant, does not have an MFA. A long-time summer student at various locales, she has studied with Lee K. Abbott and James Alan McPherson among others. This work is the result of an exercise for the writer to better realize a character in her work-in-progress, Never, a novel-in-stories set in Harlem in 1930. Ms. Anthony is a New York City native.