Meet 16 year old Yasmine, or as they call her, Yas. She’s a Caucasian girl with shoulder length black hair with Violet tips at the end. Like a majority of teenagers at her age, all she’s worried about is partying, smoking, drinking, and hanging out with the crowd that she’s drawn in at school. But once they take it a step too far, she winds up getting into a serious accident that leaves her in a coma. In her coma, she wakes up somewhere else that’s cloudy, blissful, and beautiful. She realizes that it’s heaven and see’s a crowd of people standing over her. These people, were the people who passed away on earth. All of these people were murdered on earth, but never received any justice. [Caylee Anthony, Natalee Halloway, The Black Dalhia, etc.] but one person that stands out that she sees that has been swarming around the news, is Trayvon Martin. After meeting these people, she asks questions and realizes everything that all of the prosecutors and police have missed for years. But what happens when she wakes out of her coma? After waking out of her coma, she realizes that the place called “Heaven" that everyone has been stressing about was actually real! But what does she tell the people in the outside world? After stressing to many people about what people in this other world has told her, everyone around her starts to think that getting into that accident made her a little “psycho", “crazy", and “mental". To visit these people in heaven, the only way she can do it is by potentially killing herself just so that she can see and talk to them. But with this, also comes the cost of people thinking that she’s suicidal or crazy, pushing her mother to take drastic measures to help control her daughters suicidal behavior. Being the only person who knows that these people in Heaven are actually communicating with her, will she be able to convince other people in the outside world on whats going on?

When Lauren's mother died, her abusive father looks to her to play the role of house wife and bedmate. Lauren finds a way to escape it all when she meets local barbershop owner and Kingpin Rio.

"The finale piece to my story in Schaefer, a true Gangland." - Josh.

Justice is a runaway and has spent most of her life out on the streets, scrounging for money and food until she's taken in by Dominic, a prime Drug Lord in New Orleans. Since she was 13 he and his wife have cared for her like one of their own daughters. Growing up wasn't easy for Justice. She always felt like she didn't belong in the family, even though they treated her with open arms. She grew up along side Dominic's youngest daughter and they've been best friend's since Dominic took her in. Justice has been living her some what peaceful life up until now. Since Dominic's youngest daughter just turned 20 she's left the nest, leaving Justice alone. Once Justice turns 20 she's out, to face the world on her own. So, she ventures out to find a legal life but is continuously pulled back into the rough streets of New Orleans, noticing herself falling back into the same position she was in before Dominic takes her in, scrounging for everything no matter what the cost is. Will she be able to find a legal life of her own with problems back at home, facing her real Mother, and encountering the new, manipulating and attractive up and coming Drug Lord who's looking to steal Dominic's thrown all within the 31 Days of August?

Meet 17 year old Indigo Smith , a poor Girl From The Hood . Indigo's mother is a addict and a prostitute . Indigo has to take care of her and her twin brothers all by herself most of the time. Despite Of her living in the hood, Indigo Smith has big dreams. To become a professional dancer starting with going to her new school "Chi-Arts" . But it's hard to Chase your dreams when your poor like Indigo Meet 17 year old Rayan Lopez, The wannabe thug. Ray is Rich and what most girls consider charming , and attractive . But Ray Is nothing but a player . He's got everything a girl wants , the looks, the popularity , the money . You would think Rayan's life Is perfect but he has a problem . He doesn't know how to love. He kisses with no emotion , never expresses his feelings, lust but never love. Indigo and Ray are nothing alike , she is Poor , he is filthy rich , He lives in a mansion , Indigo, lives in a apartment in the rough side of Chicago. She is Rags and he is Riches . But, everyone has dreams , poor or not .

"14th and Schaefer avenue is listed as the Number #1 dangerous city and most filled gang area in the United States. But what happens when you find out that a majority of your family members are the one's in these gangs? Well, my name is Joshua. Only being the age of 18, I know all about the good, the bad, the ugly, and the UGLIER." -Josh.

Bad boy, good girl, cliche happily ever after ending right? Well, not with Melissa and Jionni. One boy is free to do whatever he wants, while the other is sheltered and has her every move watched by her parents. At Baton Rouge High School, "hood boy" Jionni and his friends aren't too fond of the only girl in school who has money, referring to her as a "silver spoon child." But after Jionni has a change of heart, he and the rich girl decides to keep it a secret that they hang out on a regular. After hanging out for some time, the two starts to find interests in things that they never bothered with before. Once their friends and family start to wonder why they're changing and acting out of character, they start to do their own secret investigation to find out what's REALLY happening with the two. It all goes down in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. ;)

Your suppose to hold your man down no matter what..right?That's exactly what Trinity been doing for Chance since they we're little kids, she's always had his back. Now Chance is a major drug Kingpin making big moves, and he's been changing and is haven't been for the better. How long can she hold a man down who seems like he doesn't want to be held down anymore? © 2013 Ebony Goddess

"I honestly thought that this would all be over once my cousin got arrested, but the games in Schaefer had JUST begun." -Josh.

Money can't always buy Rose happiness, but what if being poor could?