阴暗的灵魂

Poems.

Polaroid

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, when all I really want is five.

Gangland II.

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

Harlem Roses

Fashion. Photography. Art. The only three things that seemed to matter to twenty-three year old Vashtie Kola. But once she meets upcoming Harlem bound rapper, Vinny Cha$e, all seem to change. Vashtie only saw Vinny as another ignorant Hustler on the streets of New York trying to make money, until proven w...

Gangland.

"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, an...

Above.

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...

Dr. August. [TMAD series.]

"Being a sex therapist ain't all it's cracked up to be. Business is business." - Dr. August.

A Slum Love Crime. (A$AP Rocky Story)

Tremaine has lived in Harlem for her entire life. She's just another young, misbehaving black girl from a poor family. Even though she misbehaves, she's still innocent. But there's a boy on her block by the name of Rakim who can change her forever. Is there more to Rakim than Tremaine thinks? Is he more than just a lo...

New World Money.

My mother and father always told me "Don't go near them niggers!" "Don't touch those niggers!" "Don't ever date you a nigger!" Little did mama know, is that daddy would take me to watch him slay them all day long. And little did I know, marrying a nigger would turn out to be the best decision of my life. He taught me...

Basketball Diaries.

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

✕:1999

-UNDER CONSTRUCTION UNTIL FUTHER NOTICE- After leaving Oakland, eighteen year old Carter Monroe moves out of the Bay with high hopes of becoming an artist in Soho. But on her way through town one day she runs into Jo-Vaughn "Joey" Scott, an upcoming rapper on the streets of Brooklyn. At first things between them don't...

The Art of Peer Pressure

-Revamping in Progress- ((Chapters 1-3 are edited so far)) Eighteen year old, Amanda Tesefay's only goal was to finish high school and graduate to college. But life isn't as easy as it seems when; both of your parents are not there for you, and you're hopping from foster home to foster home. And on top of that Amand...