COMING JULY 15
Let’s Get Into It
It was just a birthday. Then everything in her asked, what if.
Simone Harris has always known how to hold it down. For her son. For her clients. For the sports agency she built from scratch. She keeps things running, keeps herself moving, and keeps her heart tucked safely out of reach.
But this birthday feels different. It falls on a leap year, a date that only circles back every so often. A rare kind of day that feels like it arrives exactly when it’s meant to. The kind that makes you pause and ask what you have been pushing through just to keep going. In that stillness, something begins to surface alongside it. Fatigue. Questions. The quiet ache she has learned to ignore.
She is not falling apart. Still, something is shifting. The pressure she has lived under feels heavier than it once did. And as she begins to listen to what her spirit has been trying to say, the past reappears, bringing with it a familiar comfort, unfinished conversations, and a quiet invitation to feel again.
Meet Jacinta
Jacinta Howard is an Atlanta-based author and culture journalist who’s spent more than a decade covering the city’s music, food, art, and entertainment scenes. Her work has appeared in Eater, Atlanta Magazine, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Shondaland, BET, and Rock The Bells, LL Cool J’s media company, where she also served as an editor. Her 2022 article on the chicken wings at Magic City was nominated for an American Society of Magazine Editors Award, and her story on the Atlanta University Center’s influence on hip-hop was included in The City of Atlanta’s Hip Hop 50 Time Capsule. Her novels have been featured in USA Today, Book Riot, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.