I'm Crystal. My husband is August Alsina. I love him but the only problem is that he hits me. Why won't you leave? You ask. I love him and he loves me , I just need to stop messing everything up.

a conceptual love story they called it...

17 year old Renee' is an average teen trying to make her way to the top by becoming a dancer. One day she is approached by August Alsina for a job. Once she graduates, Renee' and August slowly falls in love with each other mixing business with pleasure.

"Emptiness is a home with no bed, A body with no head, Mechanical pencil, no lead. Emptiness is a heart, broken. Words chose to be unspoken, The sibling treated un-kin. But your emptiness is freedom, Your imagination's own kingdom, No heartache, no feelings." Charlie Kingsley has had bad experiences with love since she was a young child, which is exactly why she chose to save children from unhappy homes. With only what's left of her grandfather's memory to make up for her lost childhood and several sessions at a therapist, Charlie feels as though change is looking up. Full pockets don't compete with an empty heart and Apollo can vouch for that. Losing a child in the past has only hardened his heart in the present and could possibly ruin his future. Through secrets, lies, and the blurred lines between, love and the emptiness is brings is pushed to its limits and question lingers: "What is the bliss of solitude?"

To the rest of the world, Sierra had the perfect life. Straight A's, a wealthy family, things many people longed for. However behind the scenes, things weren't so perfect. When her home life becomes unbearable, she seeks refuge with her close friend, Reese, and his welcoming family. Whilst staying in the same home, Sierra and Reese grow closer than ever- when eventually, their feelings change. - All characters are 18 and older

Egypt Aaxir Goss , also known as Keely is a man who is married to the game in every sense of the word. As long as he had been living in Brooklyn not one woman had been attached to his name besides being sexed so good they became strung out. His focus remained his hustle .. that is until he meets Simone Lei Carter better known as Money. Money is spice and everything but nice. She's as ghetto and real as they come growing up in Harlem and moving to Jersey was to blame as well as an absent mother and father. Growing up In the system , Money turned to using her body to get what she wants without laying on her back. Money was a well known bottle girl in many states , Florida being one that she frequented often. See what happens when these 2 firecrackers collide. Will it be love or will it be shambles ?

The greatest gift known to a man and woman on earth is the ability to have and create a child. The love that is shared between parents and their kids would be an unexplainable type of love and that was the most magical thing about it. Couldn't no one compare to it? Twenty-three-year-old dancer, model and actress Riley Connor is learning to take on the world full force and learning to make the best of it with no consequences but what happens when one of those consequences from her past catches up with her and sucks her in at the feel of being in the same presence. How will she cope and what will she do? A spinoff to 'Nothing Like That' and 'The Connors: Trials and Tribulations'.

"Hello?" "Um, hey?" "Wait, you don't sound like my Aunt Kathy." "Unless I was miraculously converted into a member of the opposite gender and somehow related to whoever is on the other side of this call, then yeah. I'm not your Aunt Kathy." "Oh, shiitake mushrooms." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Short Story #1 (19/04/18) 2016 Fiction Awards Finalist © 2015 evethespy. All Rights Reserved.

The saying 'Mama's baby, papa's maybe' was a popular one, especially in the black community. Twenty-six year old, Kaleena Anderson wish she knew what she was getting herself into when that saying became a big part of her life with the struggles of not knowing, who her one year old son belongs to after having a one night stand and not being able to find the guy after. She finally finds him and things start to turn around but how long will it take before a twenty-eight-year-old, Cree Coleman decides to step up to the plate and be the father that he never wanted to be in the first place. Can a man who doesn't want any kids be able to step up and take care of the child he helped to create?