Black folks aren't a monolith. Black is a culture with subcultures. Black is rich, Black is poor... Black is peace, Black is war... Black evolves, Black creates... Black wasn't forced on us, we created Black by combining scraps of traditions lost to us with a twist on the Eurocentric wasteland we were stolen to. If Black ain't powerful? If Black ain't Black?! i got something for all of us. An anthology of thought. no.1 in #blackpoetry [12.08.2020] no.1 in #blacklit [12.10.2020] no.1 in #blackscifi [09.04.2021]

Trapped in the woodlands, Ivy's only hope of going home is to escape the faerie who enchants her into loving him, blinding her to what he is--monstrous. *** A dark fortress of trees twisted and crippled by time, the Clearwater, Connecticut, woods is no place for two teenage girls. The legends claim it's haunted. Fed up with being kept inside after dark, fearing the monster will take them, sixteen-year-old Ivy Farewell and her best friend Margaret set out to prove everyone wrong--that the ghost of Clearwater isn't a ghost. And the voice that has been calling to Ivy after dark is simply a trick of the wind. But the woods are deeper than Ivy imagined, each turn bringing them farther from home. When they end up lost their only hope is in each other. All seems undone when Ivy falls ill with a fever, until a stranger persuades them back to his cabin. Under his spell, Ivy falls into a deep and complicated love, a love so treacherous it blinds her to what he truly is--a monster. Copyright © 2023 T.A. Joseph All rights reserved cover by @xenomorphius

WATTPAD BOOKS EDITION. It only takes one moment to change your life forever . . . After her mother's deportation last year, all Soledad "Sol" Gutierrez wants is for her life to go back to normal. Everything's changed-new apartment, new school, new family dynamic-and Sol desperately wants to fit in. When she joins her community college's history club, it comes with an odd initiation process: break into Westray's oldest house and steal . . . a fork? There's just one problem: while the owners of the house aren't home, their grandson Ethan is, and when he catches Sol with her hand in the kitchen drawer, she barely escapes with the fork intact. This one chance encounter irrevocably alters her life, and Sol soon learns that sometimes fitting in isn't as important as being yourself-even if that's the hardest thing she's ever had to do.

Sidney Berry had her life planned out: after high school go to culinary school, become a world-renowned chef and marry her childhood sweetheart, Aiden. But after a tragic incident that shakes her world at the end of her senior year, her plans derail and she ends up a twenty-three-year-old struggling single mother living in her childhood neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY. But just as Sid is barely keeping her head above water, she meets Phil, a low-level dealer with a big mouth and a thing for her. With him comes an opportunity to get herself out of her most recent financial bind, all she has to do is take something that does not belong to her. Sid has to decide whether to take the high road and remain in her mess or take all she can to get back everything she lost. ✨COMPLETE✨

Liam accidentally calls a young, annoying, fast-talking, positive girl at work. Intrigued by this girl and slightly guilty for his rude first impression, he continues to call. Can this newly formed friendship lead to something more? and what happens when dark secrets are revealed? Read 'Hotline' to find out more. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to my second story on wattpad, I really hope you enjoy reading this as much as I'm enjoying writing it. My first book on wattpad is called Hello, feel free to check it out. Please don't steal any of the ideas, characters or events written in this story. - Previously called Subway Hotline - - This story has not been edited, you have been warned. -

What happens when your boyfriend mocks your love and sincerity? He loses you. TW: this story has mentions of blood, a car accident, and some swearing. Depression is lightly discussed. Can get suggestive at times.

When Damien Sparrow, the most popular playboy of Timberlake High, calls the school's love hotline, to set him up with a girl he likes, he never would have thought that he would fall hopelessly in love with the girl in the hot-seat, Auburn Adams. "What is so important that you woke me up at 3 a.m. in the freaking morning ?!" "Can you fall in love over phone ?" "What ?!" "I mean, can you fall in love with someone you have never met ?" "I guess..why ?" "Then I guess I am in love.." "OMG ! You are like hopelessly in love !" "Yes, but I am mostly whipped as hell.." "Who is it ?! Tell me !" "Little Miss Hotline Girl. " Fourth book in the One Last Call series..

Hey this is Adrian. I had a good time on our date today :) :Me too! This is going to be such a cute story to tell our kids in the future! OUR KIDS? :Oh don't worry, we'll obviously have them after we get married. WE'RE GONNA GET MARRIED? :Yeah that's what people who're in love do! WE ARE IN LOVE? :What did you think that eye contact we had for 3 seconds meant? You know what, you're right. :What? In fact let's get married tommorow! :ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR DAMN MIND? ---------------------------------------------- Maybe getting fake-numbered isn't so bad after all. ---------------------------------------------- A short story written in dialogue/text form. ---------------------------------------------- Maybe someday? :) :Maybe someday :) ---------------------------------------------- Highest ranks: #1 in short story #1 in dialogue #3 in humor #6 in teen fiction #7 in young adult #27 in love #5 in funny