Bringing Light Into Darkness — Dayle A. Dermatis

Janelle's grandfather is a broken man. Smart and caring, he still contains a sadness that never goes away—just like the permanent limp he won't discuss. The limp he got in the South in the 1960s, when being a Black man falsely accused of a crime meant terrible things. Then Janelle gets a wild, impossible chance to help her grandfather and right the injustice…. Bringing Light to Darkness originally appeared in Obsessions: An Anthology of Original Fiction, 2020.