“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their Inspirations and Influences. In this feature, we invite writers to talk about their new books, older titles, and their writing overall. Tomorrow, we publish the second story in our new season of short stories – Gods and Monsters. The Waters and Wild of Winter Street by Jessi Cole Jackson whose inspirations and influences the author is here today to talk about. The Waters and Wild of Winter Street is a story about family, sisterhood and the bonds that bring people together. The Waters and Wild of Winter Street began with a dream and a pregnancy–neither of which were my own. Five years ago our best friends were pregnant with their first child and my husband had a dream. In his dream, they’d had their child and we’d adopted our first placement through fostercare, and we’d all gotten together for a weekend away. Only once the babies were together did he realize that something was a bit off. Even though they should have been the same age, our new baby was larger, and stronger, and much, much meaner than our friends’ […]