Chiora Odinukwe is almost turning thirty-three. She is saddled with a dead end job and has not been in a relatively progressive relationship in over two years. However, her not-so eventful life is left in disarray when she has no other choice but to marry Ralu Okoye, a man she barely knows. Now she has to deal with an overprotective sibling, interfering best friends and ex-boyfriends who just would not go away. Copyright - All Rights Reserved

I am moving many of my singly published poems into collections, and in this collection will reside all my sonnets I have written, and will write in the future--I hope you enjoy. Love, peace, and freedom, Olan L. Smith aka Cotton Jones. (Cover credit, Olan L. Smith; c. 2012. The number 14 symbolizes the number lines used in a sonnet.)

Riley Swan is a 17 year old junior in high school. She's a year behind everyone else because the year she was supposed to be a freshman was spent half in jail and half in rehab. When Riley was only 13 years old she got herself wrapped up in a gang and in love, but things took a turn for the worst. Once she was released she got her own apartment away from her foster parents and became emancipated. She decided to better herself and stay away from the gangs and drugs. She thought she was on the right track when she got a steady job, and good friends to last for the last 3 years. But things take a sharp turn for the worst when she finds herself developing feeling for her new English teacher and finds out that her Crazy Pyromaniac ex has been released from jail on bail. Will she fall back into the gang? Or will she fall in love with her teacher and just bring him down with her in this teacher student romance; A Dangerous Life.

We speak without listening. We reach without holding. Let us weave our thoughts in subjection to our reality and with responsibility.

Joshua meets Ruth. A nun in training. He seeks to settle down with her but how will he convince a Nun?

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Death Poetry evokes memories enshrined in the African's recognition of the nature of loss and the effects it has on the living. This peace is a wide off my usual style of writing. It speaks the emotions of a Mortal