Blacklit Histórias

Vontell, complicated, self-aware, exhausted twenty-something takes the summer to recoup from the success of his first award-winning film. Running from the intensity of love and the sureity of friendship, he falls into a deep pit of uncertainty and gets pulled out by the exact people he's been hiding from and unknowingly pulls them out of a few things too. Von and his friends are all just trying to make it through the toughest of ages; the twenty somethings. [published 1/2021]

In Ravendale, even the concrete bleeds. When Biggs turns up dead in the trunk of his own ride, tagged "RAT" in red, the whole city starts whispering. The Concrete Mob, the Black Hounds, and the Vale Lords are circling - each hungry for blood, money, and power. Jayy Carter writes the streets like a diary, Deuce fires back with bullets, and Detective Hill keeps score with secrets. At the center of it all? Two keys, a burned-out church, and a box that could bury them all. Ravendale doesn't give second chances. Truth is currency. And every page drips with blood.

To find without seeking is the greatest pleasure of all. It is gratifying. It is euphoric. Imagine how many would truly find themselves once they stopped soul searching and just...

To every woman who ever had to rebuild herself from ashes- after love lied, friends flipped, and the truth got twisted. You were never weak. You were never the problem. You were just too real for the room. -Tonisha

Since birth, everyone has told Pecola Robinson that she was ugly, unwanted, and unworthy of being loved or loving herself. And Pecola had accepted this as fact. Thus, she has always tried to change and shrink herself so that she could be accepted by people, even adopting the name Robin as her preferred name to get people to love her while simultaneously allowing her to disappear and hide within and from the world of Eagleland. However, a year-long study abroad experience living amongst the Finali people across the globe presents Pecola the opportunity to take responsibility for her own happiness by moving on to heal from her trauma with the support of other women in her life or continue being defined by her trauma and existing as the tolerated good girl known as Robin. cover by cil @sereneur GENERAL | LITERARY | BLACK SPECULATIVE FICTION tw: trauma; gendered violence/intimate violence; anxiety/depression

no child wants to mourn their mother alone. but no child wants to share their mourning with perfect strangers either. for the siblings nine, their mother was no ordinary mother. each of them being sent with their father for raising, they knew nothing of the others or their mother. when siblings strange get summoned for the memorial of their late mother, things can go awry. but what can really be considered normal when no one knows what to expect? -hula

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After the sudden death of a childhood friend ahead of Awards Season, Hollywood icon, Draya Bolton, is forced to revisit her past under the microscope of fandom culture.

Halle McKinney is tired. Tired of feeling stressed, tired of missing her brother, tired of people asking if she's okay. One day, in an attempt to empathize with her dead twin, she almost drowns in the Atlantic, and is saved by the only other black boy in town, mistaking her self-journey for a suicide attempt. In a effort to get the boy off her back, agrees to an inane bucket list challenge to show her that "life is worth living after all", showing her that there's more to life than just ocean waves and heartbreak.

By now, we all know the story. A family remains cursed by a gypsy for over 100 years until the curse is broken by an act of kindness. "If only, if only," the woodpecker sighed. "The bark on the trees was as soft As the sky." The wolf waits below, Hungry and lonely. He cries to the moon, "if only, if only." We are the Zeroni women and this is our story. ||Desperado Book #2||

The old saying goes "if you can't have the one you love, then love the one you're with" but what if living without the one you love, is the only reason you love them? If you really knew the person you claimed to love, would you still love them as much?

She seemed to have the perfect life and loving marriage, until things took a turn for the worse. Zada came home to a horrific sight and realized her secrets have been exposed by someone who wanted revenge. Now Zada must play the game in order to seek vengeance for her wife.

The future seems bright but, the past is a darkness Victor cannot shift. When Victor finds a head on his table he understands the message, loud and clear.

It's been smooth sailing for Evie Harper lately. Business at her café is booming and her new man seems to be on a mission to keep a smile on her face. But when her actions directly lead to one of her clients getting murdered her happiness quickly turns into guilt. Even worse, the older woman died before Evie could get paid! Just when she's about to cut her losses, opportunity comes knocking in the form of a woman begging Evie to find the killer before things get even more out of hand. Now, Evie's got to race against the clock to find a murderer, help a kidnap victim, and ease her guilt for causing all this in the first place. Being the good person she is, of course she takes on the case out of the goodness of her heart...not to mention a three thousand dollar bonus waiting if she succeeds. Evie Harper Mysteries: Book 3

"Blood of the creature..." Visibly estranged from her incarcerated twin brother, the beautiful and cunning Tyler Zeroni lives comfortably on the desiccated Camp Green Lake grounds as The Warden's beloved adoptive daughter..... That is, until a new camper arrives, triggering a series of events that reveal her ancestry, potential, and the true meaning of love. Stanley/OC ||Desperado Book #1|| Top Ratings: #1 in caveman [1/1/22] #1 in x-ray [4/28/21] #1 in holes [5/15/21] #1 in blacklit [4/29/21]

If we're the adults, then where did all the kids go? A story about young people figuring life out. #1 black poetry [08152021] #1 blacklit [08162021]

She was born into a story everybody already agreed on - another daughter walking the same cracked road her mother and grandmother walked. Absent fathers, empty pockets, a block that swallows people whole. Everybody wrote her ending already. She never agreed to it. While everyone around her chases love and money that cost too much, she's quietly building a way out - one that won't cost her herself. But surviving the block is easy next to surviving the people who love her enough to want her to stay. Nobody counted on her. That was their mistake.

A girl semi-stalks a guy via social media live events. They meet in person and the connection is undeniable.

Karisha Larue finds out the hard way that life never goes how you want it. One blow after the next, it keeps swinging at her, yet she always gets back up. But how much more can she take? She also finds out that what goes around doesn't always come back around. But will taking revenge into her own hands clean the slate? Or will it create a pool of blood that she'll eventually drown in?