“This is Not Your Home” is a collection of three stories accompanied by the first fiftypages of a memoir to be titled “Holy Father”. These works collectively explore the lives of black women and their struggles to live well within their worlds. The stories are primarily domestic tales that explore the complex relationships that form between characters, their spaces, and their desires within a family unit, with the exception of the first “Ginger”. That story grew out of an impulse to engage with what writers do when they write, both in terms of the writing process but also with regards to what happens when we create and then go onto harm (for the sake of the story) our characters. In the memoir portion of “This is Not Your Home”, I take the questions I develop in my fiction and apply them to the peculiarities of my own life, chiefly asking “How can I examine the dynamics that formed within my own family as a way to gain insight on the world I live in and the lives we’ve lived?” Beyond the content, “Holy Father” formally tackles questions of narrative structure in memoir. Written in brief sections, the work shifts from first person direct address, to close third person narration, and back, from narrative to poetry as well, and attempts to experiment with the formal aspects of storytelling and their applications to memoir.