Chelle A. Carter-Wilson performing "You Don't Know This Me" at Joe’s Pub in NYC on Wednesday, May 21, 2025
I wrote this story as a response to the prompt: My Biggest Secret: Stories We Keep Hidden and performed it live on stage at Joe’s Pub on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. Just 8 days shy of our 32nd wedding anniversary, it was the only time I’d spoken publicly about the sudden, unanticipated loss of my beloved husband.
I’ve never done anything like this, and it was among the biggest leaps of faith I have ever taken. I thank the Universe for Grace, and the sisters who surround me so that even when I leap, I never fall.
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Chelle Carter-Wilson has storytelling in her DNA. Interrupting her career as an HR executive, she raised two children and trained a beloved boxer puppy before returning to writing full-time. She is currently working on her first novel, an afro-futurist trilogy written as magical realism. Chelle looks forward to the Summer 2025 release of the Message Women’s Devotional Bible, to which she contributed several devotionals.
Chelle Carter-Wilson has storytelling in her DNA. Interrupting her career as an HR executive, she raised two children and trained a beloved boxer puppy before returning to writing full-time. She is currently working on her first novel, an afro-futurist trilogy written as magical realism. Chelle looks forward to the Summer 2025 release of the Message Women’s Devotional Bible, to which she contributed several devotionals.
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