12 Ergebnisse.

Nya could not help but to think of the angel that visited her when Eni died. She wondered if the Creator had been watching Saint-Domingue. She wondered if He knew of all this chaos, the lives lost, the bloodshed. She recalled the angel's words to her that she must continue to fight for good things even after the battles ended. Nya wondered why. She wondered what role she would have in the new republic. She wondered what injustices would persis...

My name is Marisol Vega. I am Latina. Beautiful. Mesmerizing. A young mermaid filled with intrigue and power. A thinker of profound truths. A speaker of words like stone and fire. Yet no one hears me. My brothers scoff at me. They put their hands over their ears when I open my mouth. They forsake my opinions. Dismiss my recommendations as 'baby sister babbling.' My mother filters my speech, threading out my passionate discourse by labeling it ...

Told through the voice of a precocious Haitian-American urban tween, My Father's Soup is a story of hope and perseverance in the face of family strife. The Bassy family suffers division, financial pitfalls and extreme heartache as they grapple with the angry, violent and sudden changes of Mr. Bassy. Eventually, the new Bassy family manages to dispel the darkness of family turmoil with the light of genuine family love, stubborn hope for the fut...

Sonya Love softly clears her throat. She smooths her custom-fit sequin dress that was sewn by her mother's expert hands. The mic is ready. The audience is ready. The band is poised, waiting for her signal.But she is not ready. It is too soon. The images of her brother, Dorian, languish in her mind. His body lying face down in the dirt. A single bullet hole smoking through his chest. Sonya has not yet come to terms with what happened. Folks say...

The earth shakes like the fist of a vengeful tyrant despoiled of some precious jewel. Occurring beneath Max's feet is a physical turmoil he has never known. His birth land is breaking before his very eyes.Max loses everything in the earthquake. A star soccer player no more. His life is turned upside down and inside out. His home. Gone. His parents. Gone. His brothers. Gone. His leg. His powerful leg that used to score penalty kicks with elegan...

Felicia Robinson smacks her rival across the face with the loudest of slaps. Her victim, a girl twice Felicia's height and weight, helplessly staggers back."That's what happens to anybody who disses me!" says Felicia.Felicia balls her fists as she watches the girl slowly regain her composure. Then Felicia makes a quick move with her arms, causing the girl to flinch."Come on!" says Felicia.The girl warily approaches. She is in pain. She holds t...

The SWAT swarm Mona Blaise's house like heavily armed black bees to a honeycomb. They surround the exits, the windows, the basement door. This take down will be one for the history books. For the notorious Mona Blaise, drug kingpin, is defeated and finally shut down.Or so it seems.Mona is indeed arrested, tagged, booked, and chained. Yet she accepts her fate with a wink. She knows full well that her paid workers, many of whom are police and ju...

Brooklyn is where it all begins.We are all teenagers, ranging from fifteen to seventeen. My cousin Pete is the youngest. He plays guitar while my brother, Benny, keeps time on percussion. Mickey rips it out on the horns while I take the lead on vocals.Our little band lights up Brooklyn, man. We are on fire! The girls are screaming. Our friends and family gush with pride. Fans line up for our autographs.We are better than the Beatles, man, more...

Davanté Williams senses his mother slipping away. His skin prickles as the shadows of loneliness threaten. He cannot lose her now. He is too young. Barely seventeen. An almost-man.Mother moves on, leaving Davanté to struggle with grief. He shuffles through his last senior classes like a ghost trapped between two realities. In one, he must muster his energies to prepare his senior project for graduation. In the other reality, he reminisces over...

Willard and Charles Dareem slam their bedroom door to shut out the vicious bickering echoing from their parents' bedroom. The brothers sink into an uneasy quiet, each one engulfed in a mindless preoccupation. Willard, his books. Charles, his music.Twins by birth, Willard and Charles are identical in features, height, weight, and even voice. Their childhood is filled with stories of faithful loyalty and sappy brotherly love. Yet a cloud of divi...

Raina is overjoyed and torn by the thought of leaving her mother to attend college. For all her life, she knows Ms. Calyx to be loveless mother. She never tells her daughter she is proud of her or that she even cares.As expected, Ms. Calyx, learns of the college news and refuses to let Raina go. Mother and daughter clash horribly, inflicting painful assaults of anger and isolation upon each other. Eventually, the ache of familial love and the ...

Carlos Alejandro Alza, a teen migrant from Guatemala, is no match for the Mexican gangs or corrupt coyotes. He is poorly armed, carrying only his late father's small fishing knife and an enduring innocent heart.Yet somehow, through a long and treacherous journey, Carlos comes of age, blossoming into the strong and courageous young man his father had groomed him to be.Miraculously, Carlos eventually embarks on a new road to healing, family reun...