Blacklit Stories

a story about falling in and out of love. Bear with me, this is my first book! Book 1: Published 02/2020, Completed 04/2022 Book 1 Shut Up & Listen (complete) __/ When the one secret that kept childhood best friends Cole and Cobe at a distance is finally revealed, they become closer than ever in both the best and worst ways. Book 2 Shut Up & Listen: A Little Late (complete) __/ New relationships shed light on old forgotten ones, bringing up heartbreak and trauma. When familial strings long frayed are tied back together, will it the knot hold or will the effort be a little too late? Book 3 Shut Up & Listen: The Nullification of Black (complete) __/Feeling wind-like, Lonnie aka Black fends for himself in this long awaited growth spurt. History is revealed. Reputations are put to a halt! Friendships become love! Wounds are healed! But, something has to die for a new thing to thrive, right? Right?! no1 in #blacklit [12.16.2020-present] no2 in #detroit [12.31.2020] no1 in #celebrateblackstories [04.01.2021] no1 in #lukejames [09.04.2021] no4 in #socialissues[05.13.2022] no2 in #blackbxb[05.15.22] no1 in #urbanbxb [10.22.2022] no12 in #youngromance [11.23.2023]

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]

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Zaydence Denholm is in trouble. She and her best friend are crushing on the same guy. On her part, she views this as the ultimate betrayal. This crush alongside overbearing and emotionally detached parents, and a complicated relationship with food is a recipe for disaster. How will she survive and will she learn what it truly means to be a good enough friend? Read "The Good Enough Friend" to find out! Rating : PG-15 Content warnings include - suggestive dialogue - mild language - slut-shaming - toxic academia - disordered eating Started Publishing : September 2022 Finished Publishing: November 2023

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.

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...

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

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.

What if there were an au. And in that AU, all the black students at Hogwarts...formed a black student union. And say hypothetically, I wrote about this. I think it would be banger. This is just a collection of oneshots, featuring the black characters of the wizarding world.

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.

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.

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||

A compelling story that documents the experiences of five college sophomores: Jewel, Shaun, Dirk, Lavender, and Coba. This story explores the modern social and racial complexities of being black in higher education. With the illustrious predominantly white institute (PWI), Carnie University and the distinguished historically black college (HBCU) Nickelson College as their stages, this group of friends battles racial oppression, overcoming self doubt, and claiming self reliance as they search for their own meanings of black American Exceptionalism, black classism, and most importantly, Hip-Hop as our inheritance through their respective callings. Welcome to Black Excellence: this is The Call.

Black folks aren't a monolith. Black is a culture with subcultures. Black is rich, Black is poor... Black is peace, Black is war... Black evolves, Black creates... Black wasn't forced on us, we created Black by combining scraps of traditions lost to us with a twist on the Eurocentric wasteland we were stolen to. If Black ain't powerful? If Black ain't Black?! i got something for all of us. An anthology of thought. no.1 in #blackpoetry [12.08.2020] no.1 in #blacklit [12.10.2020] no.1 in #blackscifi [09.04.2021]

sometimes the things you love the most you put in cases for memory's sake.

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

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.

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?

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