🌴🌴🌴 IKE: A Publishing Project has published an eclectic mix of classic and contemporary writers and stories. Our next publication marries the two in stories separated by nearly a century: Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston and Fort Pierce, Florida by Lisa Cupolo.
Sweat Hurston’s 1926 classic is a story of domestic labor, danger, and a woman who refuses to break. Delia Jones works herself to the bone in the thick Florida heat, her sweat becoming both burden and salvation.
Fort Pierce, Florida
Cupolo’s contemporary story imagines Hurston in 1948, working as a motel maid in the final years of her life. It’s a portrait of quiet endurance: a woman who has already shaped American literature yet now moves through the world almost unseen.
Presented in a tête‑bêche edition, this format is designed to create a physical conversation between stories. Readers flip the book to switch perspectives—an act that mirrors the thematic turn between Hurston’s explosive realism and Cupolo’s elegiac imagining.
Zora Neale Hurston’S Florida
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