Africanamericanfiction Stories

Tahira Jolie is the elite matchmaker that the wealthy trust with their hearts, legacies, & futures. With a flawless 100% success rate, she has built a luxury empire on selling perfect love because it was easier to sell it than to feel it. However, Tahira doesn't believe in love. Not since losing Yamina "Yami," Jacobs-the first woman she ever loved. Everything changes when Milan Donovan, a powerful and captivating real estate mogul, walks into her office seeking the one thing money can't buy-true love. When Tahira runs the match, the impossible happens: the perfect result is HER. Now the woman who has perfected love for everyone else must face the one thing she has spent years avoiding-her own heart.

**The Streets Got Me** In the summer of 1997, the tight-knit community of Palmetto, Florida, is held together by family, faith, friendship, and the smoke rising from Big Charles' barbecue pit. But beneath the laughter and front-porch conversations, change is coming. As the years pass, young people face choices that will shape their futures-loyalty or ambition, easy money or honest work, survival or sacrifice. Some dreams are realized. Others are lost. Through it all, one question remains: can a person escape the streets without forgetting where they came from? *The Streets Got Me* is a powerful work of fiction about family, community, redemption, and the lasting impact of the decisions we make. It's a story of growing up, carrying the weight of the past, and discovering that while the streets may shape you, they don't have to define your future.

Just putting this up for reference for part two: "Miles Away from Shore" https://www.wattpad.com/myworks/176108174-miles-away-from-shore. (I apologize for the lack of punctuation. For some reason, it copied over from my original document that way.)

Tanesha was just a young girl trying to make it out until the streets got a hold of her and consumed her very existence . Now she has to make the most out of the hand she is dealt. Follow Tanesha in a captivating story of her life and see why she is the boss.

Zola is excited to finally visit her grandparents in the beautiful beach-side town of Kaprisa, but it doesn't take her long to notice that there's something they aren't telling her. What they do tell her is to stay away from the water, which is hard to do when there is nowhere in town she can go without being near it. Zola soon wishes that someone had told her about the man with shark fins who knows too much about her. She wishes that someone had told her that ignoring his invitation to join him in the sea would not be as easy as walking away. Zola finds herself dragged off to the Realm of the Sea-folk, to fulfill a promise she doesn't remember making. If she ever wants to make it home, she must escape the man with the shark fins and find a way to survive her encounters with the sea-beings who want her dead.

What you don't know, can't hurt you...right?

-I've told you a thousand times Marty! I told you, don't you remember what momma said to us growing up? For a billion times she said, never forget she said:"You ought not to trust a white man. If our colours disturb them, let 'em be disturbed. Their lack of colour match their lack of honour." The story of 2 lives, connected in a horrible incident. A little girl and an old lonely man. The only difference they have between each other is probably their skin. Read, vote and comment on anything if you want to. I'm open to both positive and negative feedback!

Tavion an 18 year old from Columbia SC trying to find himself during his senior year with Heartbreak, Friendship, Hardships, and most importantly Love

In the heart of the city, where survival is a daily struggle and love often hides behind hardship, Malik Carter rises from the chaos with one guiding light-his mother, Brenda. Dear Mama is a gripping, emotional journey through the life of a young Black man shaped by poverty, pain, and a mother's unconditional love. Brenda, a woman with her own demons, fights tooth and nail to raise her son with dignity and purpose. From late nights working dead-end jobs to sheltering Malik from the streets, her strength becomes the foundation of his transformation. As Malik grows older, temptation pulls at him, violence lurks around every corner, and anger threatens to consume him-but Brenda's voice, her sacrifices, and her quiet resilience never leave his heart. When Malik returns home years later, now a successful man, he's forced to face the past he tried to forget-and the woman who made him everything he is. Dear Mama is a powerful tribute to the women who fight for their children when the world gives them nothing. It's a story of love, redemption, and the bond that can never be broken.

Winter Locke, still reeling from the break-up of her ten-year relationship with her high school sweetheart two months before their wedding, is dreading the holidays. Her best friend, Chad Turner is determined to remind Winter that she shouldn't let anyone steal her joy this Christmas even if that means he steals her heart in the process.

The year was 1971, and Khalid Muhammad spoke out emphatically against the violence and drugs that plagued the Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn community, and tragically he's killed as a result of. Following soon after, a bitter, violent, vortex encircles the lives of his family. It's now 1985, and his wife Waseema struggles against all odds to hold the family down, but it all gets away from her, quickly. The oldest son, Mustapha, resorts to selling drugs; Rasheed, another sibling, gets caught up in robbing drug dealers; and a sister, Shaheeda, falls prey to the crack-cocaine and prostitution that ravages the once proud and thriving Bushwick-Hylan Projects. To only make matters worse, Rasheed and his crew rob a larger than life stash of cash and drugs from one of Brooklyn's top dope pushers, and then make plans to take down his main stash next. In the complex web and circle of events that take place next, Rasheed unwittingly stumbles on a break surrounding circumstances involving his father's death; and the web is further tangled as he finds out all too late, that unknowingly, betrayal by his lover, and his best friend hinder his quest to get closer to the ones responsible. However, his crew, and his family manage to all unite in an attempt to get from under the clutches of a phycotic drug king-pen, Carlos. In the all too thrilling, Houdini-like finish, his father's past threatens to hold on to secrets that may one day set Rasheed free from his demons. But, all is not lost as Khalid's last words are revealed; a Arabic translation for the melodramatic lunacy of Rasheed's crazed world-the only clue...dunya!

A young American couple living in the 1940's South, moves to North Carolina to begin a new life together. But they soon find that escaping their past and running from who they really are, becomes more difficult to do than they could have ever imagined. ***Trigger Warning*** Contains sensitive material related to the treatment of a child.

These are illustrations of an unfinished children's book.

*My thoughts were updated five years later! I'm black. That's what I know. It's a truth that I cannot deny. The color of my skin is a fact, yet it has taken me a long time to figure out what it means to be black, and I still am. To learn what to think about being black. To learn what to think about those days where I may feel ashamed of being black, but days when I am proud of being black. To learn on how to figure out who I am and how being black ties into that. These are my conversations. Conversations that have to do with me figuring out what exactly the color of my skin means. Conversations with family and friends just about being black and what it means to me, what I learned from it, and what I think about it. *Remember these are my own thoughts and experiences, so they may not apply to everyone, and please don't be harsh if they do.

What's done in the dark comes to the light . Can the ultimate betrayal be forgiven ?

All during high school Elyse Harris had been the overweight girl who everybody ignored, except for Wyatt Hudson. However, he'd only been nice to her when they weren't in public. When she'd agreed to tutor him in French, she'd fallen hard for him. She'd kept her true feelings hidden because she knew a guy like Wyatt would never feel the same about her. Just when she'd decided to reveal all, she discovered how Wyatt really felt and it left her devastated. After graduating, she'd moved to another state and expected to never see Wyatt again. Ten years later, Elyse returned after finding out her late grandmother had willed her a house. Her first thought was to sell the house and be done with it, but once she saw it, she decided to relocate back to St. Petersburg and move in. Elyse was heading to a job interview when she almost got hit by a vehicle driving the wrong way down a one-way street. Someone ended up pushing her out of the way and that someone turned out to be the man she thought she'd never lay eyes on again-Wyatt Hudson. Not only did he save her, he turned out to be the person interviewing her for the job she'd applied to. How can the new Elyse keep her old feelings for Wyatt under the surface, especially when he refuses to leave her alone?

Navigating the halls of middleschool can be tricky. But, 14yr old identical twins Kaila and Zaria Bradley, known to everyone as the Double Dutch Dolls, seem to have it all figured out. At least until they overhear their archenemy Trinity say, “Kaila’s only good for looks and Zaria’s only good for books”. Now the girls feel they have something to prove and attempt to pull off the greatest Double Dare of all-time, secretly trading places. It may be the oldest twin trick in the book but the Double Dutch Dolls plan to do it in style. Can Fashionista Kaila transform herself into a star student? Can Classic, cool Zaria trade in her soccer cleats for designer fashion? Or, will competition permanently tear the twins apart?

The Girl Who Grew from the Hood by Kiraa Unique Seventeen-year-old Makaelah is just trying to survive Building D a place where sirens sing lullabies and silence feels like a warning. With her mama always gone and two younger siblings to raise, she holds it down the only way she knows how: quietly, fiercely, and spiritually. But when a break-in turns into a supernatural attack, and her hoodoo protection spell actually works, Makaelah realizes she's being watched not just by spirits, but by something older and darker than fear. Secrets start surfacing. Shadows move differently. And a boy named Seyon from 5B seems to know more than he should. This is not just a hood story. It's a spiritual awakening. A raw, ancestral, real-life spell in fiction form. Makaelah didn't just survive the hood. She grew from it.

Piper Evans is the perfect child/student/dancer, but Piper has major self-esteem problems that she must deal with. Being a dark African American woman is not easy and Piper must learn to take pride in who she is. She faces issues such as college, her father's new family, and learning to love herself.

A failed young blues musician would do just about anything to become a success...even sell his soul. Based upon the legend of Robert Johnson.