![]() ![]() Please, Lord."'ĬHIDEYA: That was author Denise Nicholas, reading from her new book, "Freshwater Road." "Dear Lord, I promise I'll go to New Mexico to see my mother. Don't let them kill us." She reached around for a viable bargain to make with God. She rolled off the bed onto the floor, as Margo had taught her to do, trying to get herself under the bed, pushing her suitcase out of the way with her feet, her heart leaping in her chest like a ball being batted furiously against a concrete wall. Bits of gravel rock flew from under the wheels of a moving car or truck. ![]() Celeste sat upright in her bed out of a deep-dream, forgotten sleep. ![]() DENISE NICHOLAS (Author, "Freshwater Road"): (Reading) `Gunfire cracked, high-pitched and fast, through the quiet country night, a crash of broken glass. Here she reads a passage from her civil-rights-era coming-of-age story. Literary critics are raving about her fiction debut, "Freshwater Road." Recently I sat down in her New York bureau with the gorgeous, youthful, 61-year-old Nicholas. The former star of "In the Heat of the Night" and "Room 222" is now a novelist. Actress Denise Nicholas has entered a new phase in her entertainment career. ![]()
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