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ANTHOLOGIES
RAHSAAN ALI
BRANDIE
PARRY BROWN
MICHELLE BUCKLEY
MEISHA CAMM
WHITE CHOCOLATE
CHUNICHI
DEBRA CLAYTON
ROY GLENN
BRENDA HAMPTON
ALASTAIR J HATTER
P.R. HAWKINS
ANGEL M. HUNTER
LA JILL HUNT
ASHLEY JAQUAVIS
JIHAD
KEITH LEE JOHNSON
STEPHANIE JOHNSON
DWAYNE S. JOSEPH
DAKOTA KNIGHT
DARRELL KING
TONY LINDSAY
THOMAS LONG
FELICIA MADLOCK
EDD MCNAIR
NIKKI RASHAN
B.K. RAY
RECHELLA
COLE RILEY
TRISTA RUSSELL
LENA SCOTT
FAYE THOMPSON
TOSCHIA
ALEX TYSON
KASHAMBA WILLIAMS
LATONYA Y. WILLIAMS
ANA GIA WRIGHT
ALISHA YVONNE

  JIHAD
Rhythm Azure, a young freedom-fighting law student at Howard University, takes interest in the case of Moses King, the founder of a notorious Chicago street gang. Moses was sentenced to life without parole for a crime he didn’t commit. As Rhythm grows closer to Moses, she uncovers a conspiracy involving government officials that threatens to tear the city apart.

Street Life is a journey into the struggle of a young black male raised in America's inner city streets. Not since Donald Goines and Claude Brown has there been a story written from the male perspective about the inner city streets that compares. As the merry-go-round of life in the hood is relived, explanations will become evident as to what sets the stage for the events and circumstances that lead so many to the prison-gates. In this true to life story a vivid colorful picture is painted of the how and why growing up in an environment where happiness is sought in the bottom of liquor bottles, needles and dope sacks is just ordinary life in the hood. Whenever one tries to break the cycle, it will become as clear as my words in writing as to how unseen hands pull at him to continue the course he was conditioned to complete, bombard him.

 

Baby Girl: This is a story of a girl born to L.A.”s rich and elite.  She’s known simply as Baby Girl. After the sudden and tragic murder of her father, Baby Girl and her mother are forced to give up their lives and go on the run.  Soon they end up living on the streets among Atlanta’s homeless, where Baby Girl’s mother does whatever she has to do to make sure her daughter wants for nothing. Soon they befriend Shabazz, a white-heroin addicted/scam artist who thinks he is black, and his best friend Ben Franklin, an old scholarly alcoholic that carefully analyzes everything and everyone. Not long after being on Atlanta’s streets Baby Girl’s mother is killed. She is now being raised by Shabazz and Ben, learning  the intracies of hustling. Using what she learned from watching her mother, Shabazz, and Ben, Baby Girl’ scandalous, ruthless, cunning puts her on top of the world, taking the game to levels you wouldn’t believe. She has it all until another tragic event causes her to take on a new fight. She is a female Robin Hood, robbin’ the rich and givin’ back to the hoods of Atlanta’s homeless and dejected.  Eventually she recruits and trains women like her, beautiful in appearance but poisonous to the touch if you get in their path. Baby Girl will make every woman wonder, is it really a man’s world or is it a woman’s world where men only exist if women let them?
     
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