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Recommendation: Land of Love and Drowning

Recommendation: Land of Love and Drowning

https://www.amazon.com/Land-Love-Drowning-Tiphanie-Yanique-ebook/dp/B00GGVGITE/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1CIV3B9Y8W0CR&keywords=land+of+love+and+drowning&qid=1655838293&s=books&sprefix=land+of+love+and%2Cstripbooks%2C127&sr=1-1 Tiphanie Yanique’s 2014 debut Land of Love and Drowning is an epic tale tracing three generations of the Bradshaw family on the Virgin Islands. Its expansiveness and use of magic…

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Recommendation: The Conductors, by Nicole Glover

Recommendation: The Conductors, by Nicole Glover

https://www.amazon.com/Conductors-Nicole-Glover-ebook/dp/B07T4JJFRD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3SJFF2C0KDDRW&keywords=the+conductors&qid=1655751245&s=books&sprefix=the+conductors%2Cstripbooks%2C137&sr=1-1 The Conductors, by Nicole Glover If you love mysteries, historical fiction, and fantasy, then you’ll love Nicole Glover’s 2021 novel The Conductors. Featuring one of the most compelling duos in fiction,…

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Every Boy Should Have A Man, Review

A review of Preston L. Allen's novel Every Boy Should Have a Man.

https://www.amazon.com/Every-Boy-Should-Have-Man-ebook/dp/B00CAZ49BE/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2AE0VPZSOU3B9&keywords=every+boy+should+have+a+man&qid=1655662240&s=books&sprefix=every+boy+should+have+a+man%2Cstripbooks%2C113&sr=1-1 Every Boy Should Have A Man, written by Preston L. Allen, whose previous works include Jesus Boy and All or Nothing, is a fabulist tale set in a world of oafs and pet humans.…

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 The Night Nurse on Ward C

 The Night Nurse on Ward C

The screaming starts at night. Like zombies rising from the dead, the patients come out of their drug-induced hazes and start to howl. “Christina!” shouts one woman. “My pen, gimme back my pen,” cries another. Nurses and orderlies race to their rooms to secure the restraints and administer their meds. The patients violently resist, trashing and snarling and cursing up a storm. A week ago, a…

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Lost and Found in Iowa

Lost and Found in Iowa

One summer, I found myself lost in a Greyhound station somewhere in Iowa. It was 1999, and I was on my way to Iowa City to attend a week-long writing festival hosted by the University of Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop. Established in 1936, Iowa’s famous workshop launched the careers of some of the most celebrated writers in America. Wallace Stegner, James Alan McPherson, Jane Smiley, Michael…

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Reverie

From Adam’s rib she came and out of the snake’s mouth she went. She has no regrets, not really, except that she hates the periods and misses her garden. On days when she is feeling less than herself, she remembers those long afternoons alone under the apple tree where she’d daydream while cool breezes blew over the hills and ruffled the surface of the pond nearby. It was there, by the pond, as…

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Hush

We didn’t say nothing when we got on the bus. Just took our seats near the back and kept our mouths shut like Mama told us to. We didn’t know where they was taking us, but they never tell us nothing. Minny and them got took six months ago. Don’t nobody know where they went. The authorities show up with their papers and badges, saying “Who and who got to go on this or that date. No questions…

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The Thing in the Cellar

The Thing in the Cellar

“Wanna see something?” Tommy Brooks said. Jordan was tying his shoelaces on the porch steps of his home. It was a warm, summer day, and Jordan was bored. He and his mom had recently moved to a small house she had inherited from a great-aunt, in a town on the outskirts of nowhere. His old school and friends were miles away, and the town, with its identical houses, gravel roads and wild brush, its…

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The F. Sygnata (on Wattpad) https://my.w.tt/zjyTRTdPicb The F. Sygnata is a short story that's a part of a series of novels I'm working on called The Book of Dreams. It features the same characters and same universe. Agent Kira Wood and the Z'Dhia, aka Mister, from the planet Idris-Sarra, timeshift onto an abandoned cruise ship left adrift in outer space to recover a volume from the Book of Dreams, books that were stolen from his planet while under occupation by the Ro Kan Empire. But once there, Kira and Mister discover they are not alone!

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New Stories

Hi, all.

Crazy, exciting times we’re in now. New times ahead. Some of it will be same-old, same-old, and some will be new. I’ll be glad when I can wake up in the morning and not wonder what new hell is going on. Regardless, we’re closing in on the train wreck that is 2020 with some hope. Remember that?

Writing in to let you know that I’ve published a story on Wattpad…

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The Naxos Academy of Psychic Studies for Colored Girls available now on iTunes Store

https://books.apple.com/us/book/id1513442364

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Back Again

It’s been a while since I’ve blogged. A lot has happened in the almost two years since then. Some of it not so good. But some…well, promising. The good news is that I published my first novel. The Naxos Academy of Psychic Studies for Colored Girls is now available on iTunes Store. You can also check out the book trailer here.

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Sex, scandal, ruin, and death at a 1920s school for psychics. Check it all out here in The Naxos of Psychic Studies for Black Girls.

Now available on iTunes store. https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-naxos-academy-of-psychic-studies-for-colored-girls/id1513442364?mt=11&app=itunes

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Blog Hop: When to Now

Blog Hop: When to Now - Book release When to Now: A Time Travel Anthology

Today the anthology When to Now: A Time Travel Anthology, which features my short story “Ruby’s Paradox” has been published. It’s available here at Amazon. In celebration, we’ll be doing a blog hop with contributors offering a word or two about the publication.

I have to admit I’m a bit surprised this is all happening. When I first submitted this story I wasn’t sure whether it would be published…

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He Knows You Know

The phone vibrated. It was 3:00 am. I leaned over to see who was calling at that godforsaken hour. The caller ID said Sarah. I didn’t know any Sarah.

Frowning, I answered. “Hello.”

“Who is this?” a voice on the other end said.

“Excuse me?”

“Please answer.”

I was awake now. I sat up in bed, turned on the lamp, and switched the phone to my other ear. “Um, lady, you called me. You sure you got the…

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When to Now: A Time Travel Anthology

When to Now: A Time Travel Anthology

The anthology, When to Now: A Time Travel Anthology, which features my short story “Ruby’s Paradox” is now available at Amazon.com for pre-order. If you liked the stories I posted on my blog, then check it out. Also features stories from Gabs Cotsworth, Edward Ahern, B.T. Lowry, Teresa Richards, Abhishek Sengupta, and others. All the support you can give to up-and-coming writers is much…

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Tender

Tender - "A ghost can be greedy for the things it no longer has. The ghost of a child can be greedy for the things it never had."

A ghost can be greedy for the things it no longer has. The ghost of a child can be greedy for the things it never had. It began with the doors and the laughter. Always the laughter. That was the most unsettling part. The soft trill of a giggling child bursting like bubbles in a glass of soda, floating out of the ether, discombobulated and haunting. Then a door will swing open and a few seconds…