L. Nichols, now a celebrated multi-disciplinary artist, engineer and father of two, was born in small town, rural Louisiana, assigned female and raised by conservative Christians. Flocks is his memoir of that childhood, and of the expectations of his family, friends and community, the flocks of Flocks, that shaped and re-shaped him as a child.

In Robert Sergel’s Bald Knobber, a middle school boy named Cole delivers a book report on the titular masked vigilantes from the Reconstruction Era. Unfortunately for him, this thrilling tale of antebellum justice has an uncanny resonance with young Cole’s real life. Donning a homemade Bald Knobber mask, he sets out to avenge the wrongs perpetrated by his recently divorced parents, his mother’s new boyfriend and the school bully. Much like the real Bald Knobbers, Cole discovers there are consequences to taking the law into your own hands.