Celebrateblackstories 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]

Don't let 'em steal your heart.

Synopsis Behind the masks we wear, secrets lie in wait. Perfection is a facade, a carefully crafted illusion. Some hide their scars, while others wear them like a badge of honor. But what happens when the masks slip, and the truth comes to light? Dive into these teenagers lives with a whole thrilling action. Started: 28/10/25 Ended....

** WARNING THIS BOOK CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT** The Black Series: Book I 'I never knew there was a love like this before' - Faith Evans "I knew from the moment he touched me that this man would be the death of me." She looked at me like a deer in headlights. Nobody will ever understand no matter how much I try to explain. "So why did you stay?" The tears feel down my eyes as all the things that happened ran through my mind all at once. I took a deep breath. "Because I love him." "Ain't no way, not enough to ... " "Yeah well, you ain't never been in love like this... you have never been in love with HIM."

I know all those things she said were just a bunch of lies. I don't have proof, but I know they're all lies. I saw her from where I sat. She was with her friends. They were laughing whilst looking at my direction. They were laughing at me. I know our kind of love is not acceptable by society. Talk more of her. I can't help but ask myself. Why do her eyes hold emotions, which I can't really explain, when she looks at me? Why did I fall for someone like her? Why her of all people? Out of all the people here, it had to be Mae Williams.

Bimbo, the shy, introverted and perfect girl in the eyes of her rich and doting parents was murdered gruesomely on Valentine's day. A drastic investigation sparked under the control of Detective Ada which was centred on Bimbo's best friends. Fingers are pointed, stones of blame are casted and unknown secrets are revealed, But the question left hanging is who killed Bimbo and why?

❇️ 2018 WATTYS WINNER! The Originals category ❇️ - "The Breakfast Club" meets "Nancy Drew" in this most unusual YA Mystery. SUMMARY: Five high school students, with little in common other than being descendants of the town founders, are forced to work on a history project together. But when their history project uncovers evidence of a long-buried town secret, the kids must piece together the clues behind their discovery before its legacy comes back to haunt them. ***** Using ACTUAL, archival material (some dating as far back as 1776), The Descendants weaves a tale of mystery and intrigue, constructed entirely from real photographs, documents, and snippets of history from a small, rural town in New Hampshire. What Dan Brown did with conspiracy theories in "The DaVinci Code" and Ransom Riggs did with historical photographs in "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children," I will attempt to do in "The Descendants," but with teen protagonists and the Cheshire County Historical Society. :-) Why? 'Cause I'm crazy like that! Yeah, I know...History?! Blah! But it actually turned out really fun! :-)

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]

"They say life experiences can either make or mar a person. Well for me, it was both. Being broken and repaired, experiencing different emotions, as though I'm an emotional arcade. Life went through me, leaving scars and stars." She chuckled lightly, reminiscing her beloved. "And if you were asked to describe your life in a sentence..." She adjusted slightly on her seat. Fondling with the straps of her black spaghetti top and feigning confidence in her posture, she gave her answer. "I'd describe my life as a bed of roses, only, with so many thorns." "I guess that makes you a scarred beautiful thorned rose." ♧ ♧ ♧ Life is like a game, same as love. One wrong move, and you're done for. Well what wrong move could Sewa have done in this beautiful game of love and life? What wrong move could she have played in her emotional arcade? ♧ ♧ ♧ Started; 7 February 2022

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.

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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]

Valerie loved Bobby. Bobby loved Valerie. Everyone in the community knew it, though the two tried to keep their relations secret. They were childhood friends who grew to be lovers. But they were black. And black people can find themselves in the right place at the wrong time...

"I was just a girl, you were just a boy Two ordinary people Two ordinary people Made extraordinary love." ~ Extraordinary Love by Stacy Barthe Aaliyah Evans is closed off, antisocial workaholic to the rest of the world. She is a fortress built of stone fifty feet high and twenty feet thick. Somehow, Chris Brown is able to break down her walls and open Aaliyah back up to the idea of love. They accept the demons in each others' past, accept each other for who they are, and fall deep-- but external forces, such a powerhouse succubus of an ex, threaten to tear them apart before they even get started. Warning: May (briefly) mention themes of self-harm and violence.

Michael Henry Mitchell is nobody's fool. He doesn't like people of color. As heir to the Mitchell dynasty, he's in control and easily has his pick of women. Except he has always loved only one girl. Suzanne - and to his frustration, she happens to be black. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wMpvXTY1aE

The way he remembered her was always of soft touches and soft words

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑠ℎ𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑠𝑜𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑦𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑢𝑎𝑡𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑦𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑏𝑖𝑔 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑜 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑣𝑒𝑖𝑡𝑛𝑎𝑚 𝑟𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑔𝑜 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠, 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑐𝑜ℎ𝑜𝑙 𝑎𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑐𝑜𝑝𝑒.

Jadeshola Badmus is not your regular female lead. She's outspoken, Brilliant, Sassy, beautiful, intelligent, and is the president of the Literary and debate team. What's more, she comes from a very wealthy family and is the head girl of her school, Lakeview High, one of the most prestigious schools in the country. The only bad luck for her comes in the form of the golden star boy of the school, Uthman Gbadamosi, her arch-rival in debating, the school's head boy, football team captain, and the crush of many girls in school except Jade of course. The two are thrown together after a brief encounter and they found themselves developing feelings for each other amidst family breakdown, friend's betrayal, failed tests, and missed opportunities. This book follows the lives of the finalists at Lakeview High as they maneuver their way to become better adults in the seemingly ugly world.

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Ok y'all remember this one? I'm trying to rewrite it and I need new ideas