![]() Am I living up to this insurrection? Am I living up to this ideal?ĬORNISH: So you create this place, but it's not a utopia. It's always something that they're asking themselves. They always have to - it's always on their mind. And these people are the children of the insurrection. ![]() So I wanted to have a place where the idea of battle is still waging but there's actually a physical victory. RION AMILCAR SCOTT: We have a lot of alternate realities in which the Confederacy wins, which I don't think we need because (laughter) - they lost the war, but the idea about all they won. Scott told me he wanted to explore a fictional place - but not in any way he'd seen before. His stories jump around in time and shift perspective. His new collection of short stories is called "The World Doesn't Require You." Amilcar Scott says Cross River was born out of the country's only successful slave revolt. It lives in the imagination of writer Rion Amilcar Scott and on the pages of his books. ![]() Let's go to a place that's not on any map - Cross River, Md. ![]()
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