Darryl White

Darryl White has a BA in Psychology from University California, Los Angeles, a MA in English from California State University, Northridge. He is currently a third year student in the MFA Creative Writing program at San Francisco State University. Darryl works for Roberts Family Development Center’s Freedom Schools program, which teaches reading to under-served youth. He has a passion for speculative fiction and his work typically explores characters who, by class, race, or health are pushed to the fringe of their society.

The Arachne Gene

He had a pocketful of possibilities scribbled on napkin backs. The perfect recipe was like DNA, it held the answer to who he was and where he was supposed to be. He wasn’t found yet, he was on his way, and he’d get there, wherever there was, if the bus driver didn’t kill them first.