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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 cold street. A single bullet hole smoking through his chest. Sonya has not yet come to terms with what happened. Fo...

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Being Davanté Davanté Williams senses his mother slipping away. As her only child, he can easily discern between the usual buoyancy of his mother's spirit and the now weakened trace that is leaving. Davanté's 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 gho...

The university admissions letter slips out of Raina's trembling hands. She sits down slowly on the edge of her unmade bed. For several minutes, Raina stares at the fancy letter laying on the floor. She has been accepted. Raina blinks in disbelief at the enormity of this quiet news. She has been accepted to the most prestigious university in the country. She has been accepted with a full scholarship, including books and dormitory. She has been ...

The earth shakes like the fist of a revengeful tyrant despoiled of some precious jewel. Occurring beneath Max's feet is a physical turmoil he has never known. His island, his beloved 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 p...

The Last Princess of Saint-Domingue She is the King's principal wife, a Queen of the highest rank in the small African village. Hers is the admiration and respect from the villagers, especially from Mamma, the local shaman. Mamma sees trouble coming. She hears the whispers in the twilight. She notices the subtle change of the wind. The ancestors' calls. They chant to her. Beckon her. Instruct her on what to do when the trouble comes. The Queen...

The SWAT swarm Mona Blaise's house like heavily armed black bees to a honeycomb. They surround the exits, the windows, the basement door. With bated breath, they wait for the take down. 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 tha...