African-american Stories

Teenage Vampyrs, Enchanteds, and Shapeshifters join the Otherworlder Academy to train to fight off a demon horde and save the Otherworlder realm. Welcome to the rewrite of The Otherworlders! (This is v2 version, which explains the odd read to vote ratio, btw) :-) Anyway! If you're new, just a little info: ★ MY READERS LOVE ★ - Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, Miraculous Ladybug, KOTLC, Teen Wolf, and Warrior Cats. If you love those stories, you'll love "The Otherworlders" too! ****** THE STORY: Forced to call a truce to the Shadow Wars and set their prejudice aside, Vampyrs, Enchanteds, and Shapeshifters create the Otherworlder Integrated Academy. Nine students are chosen, three from each race, to train under Headmaster Pierce and his staff. But this is no ordinary school. No. These students are training to fight an encroaching demon horde while hunting down a magical tablet that could save the Otherworlder realm from destruction. "The Otherworlders" is filled with supernatural threats, magical powers, complex and layered storylines, and adorable yet complicated characters readers absolutely love! ****** [[Wattys Winner]] [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

Kacey King only 19 is doing her best raising her 10 month year old son by herself. Both Kacey parents died when she was just a toddler so she been out in this cold world all alone. Even when life continues to get difficult Kacey makes the best out of bad situations. Will Kacey ever have time for someone outside of her son? What happened to her baby's father? Will Kacey continue to do what's best for her and her son even in her messed up circumstances?

A'ight, let's get this bread. My name is Kendrick King. I was bitten by a radioactive spider and for about a year, I've been Chicagos' one and only, Violet-Spider. I'm sure you know the rest. Fought some gang members, had a run -ins' with the Chicago Police Department, exploring the great world of paleontology, my dream job, etc. But outside the mask, I'm just your "typical" High School Junior who's trying to balance school, social, and superhero life

Eliana wanted a new start somewhere before her adolescent years are over; but she didn't expect the cost of starting anew was losing her dad. After Eliana and her older sister, Mary, officially cut ties with their estranged mother, they find themselves in their childhood hometown of Timpview, with an insanely huge estate left by their late father. But a new start calls for new friends and new problems for Eliana, starting with Mateo Russo, son of the richest family. His secretive nature is way beyond what Eli knows him for, but not everyone is supportive of this friendship. Follow along Eliana's journey as she navigates life as it is.

Inter-racial mlm story- Cameron is out. Everyone at school knows it. It's never been a secret, never been something he felt the need to hide. But his best friend, Davion? That's a different story. Davion is the kind of guy people don't expect anything from beyond assumptions. Tall, dark-skinned, short dreads. And no one at school knows he's gay. No one except Cameron. To everyone else, Davion is just Davion. Straight. Normal. Confident. They always flirt around and call it jokes. At least Cameron does, because it makes it easier. Davion never corrects him. What Cameron doesn't realize is that Davion isn't joking at all. And somewhere between late-night conversations, shared glances, and words that always feel like they mean more than they should... Davion is falling for the one person who actually knows him. And Cameron might be falling too.

Basically a lookbook for names, male and female, for people of color. Mainly people of African descent, but I may include some names that are considered South Asian/brown as well. Suggestions are appreciated.

From the outside, Aaliyah's life looks almost perfect. Growing up in California surrounded by love, family, and everything she thought she needed, she never had much reason to question the life she was given. She has dreams of her own, people she trusts, and a future she can't wait to step into. But perfect lives have secrets too. As Aaliyah gets older, cracks begin to form in the story she's always known. Questions lead to answers she wasn't prepared for, new people enter her life, and relationships become more complicated than she ever imagined. Between family secrets, friendships, love, heartbreak, and finding herself, Aaliyah is about to learn that sometimes the people closest to you are hiding the biggest truths. Because behind everything that looks perfect... there's always a story nobody knows.

Four men from the neighborhood are desperate for a life changing event. So, they decide to rob a bank to secure themselves financially. While the manager behind the scenes plot their demise.

Aaliyah Williams is about to start her senior year when her life turns upside down. The boy who just moved there unknowingly caused her and her best friend's friendship fall out. How will they end up falling for each other, going to college, and maintaining a life together through and post senior year?

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Sean Gillan's passion lies in his education, his work values as a part-time cashier at the family-owned general store, and helping out his grandparents at a family farm while being a faithful member of his church. He has little time for any frivolous and is certain that all he needs is in his small town of Central Georgia, despite his citified parents and siblings citing that he needs to get a life and get some air in his lungs. Sean has little time for anything other than what he needs, so much so that he lands in the hospital after passing out during his post-graduation party at church. Fearing that he was in danger of burning out and knowing that he wasn't going to survive long if he overworked himself, the whole family decides to ship him off to his gay uncle's home in Newport, Rhode Island so he could attend college there. Sean wants none of it, citing that he's fine with his small-town lifestyle. But once he learns that his grandfather sold the farm, home, and business and that he was to attend college up north instead of trade school in Adams Falls; Sean's fate is sealed. But then he's forced to join his adoptive cousins and uncles for some ice cream and meets two domineering young men fresh out of high school. And they...well, let's just say that they want to show Sean Gillain the TRUE meaning of having passion in his strict life. And maybe Sean doesn't think that moving to Newport would be so bad after all. He'll never know unless he gives it a try.

Violet Marcellus finds herself interviewing multiple people to be her rommates in her apartment for collage. She needs two people to split the rent with, here are the requirements: They have to have a steady job and finance for rent. They CANNOT be someone who cannot clean after themselves. THEY MUST NEVER throw a party and be loud unless everyone agrees. Violet may have found her roommates, but how will she survive with them? Will the three of them be unseperable? Or will they destroy each other?

Come home. But not everyone is invited. The Gardeners: The Return is the first book in an Afrofuturist trilogy set in 2040, when ancient beings called the Gardeners arrive on Earth with an offer. Those who receive it must choose between everything they value and a freedom no one before them had. The arrival divides communities, churches, and households. It forces questions about liberation, belonging, and what we owe each other when the impossible becomes real. This is a story about faith, family, and the weight of choosing your own deliverance. Currently #1 in Afrofuturism and #1 in Faith Fiction.

I had it all man. A scholarship for track to Grambling University and a man who adored me. Full support from a two parent household and overnight every thing changed. I was snatched. Kidnapped and taken away from where anyone I may know or anyone who may know my story. ------ Nigga aint never had a problem getting a bitch. But my goodness. Lowkey want his wife.

When her mother left her a fortune, Nina thought her life would finally fall into place. But money has a way of revealing who people really are. Her best friend becomes her lover, but Ty's loyalty comes with a price. And Nina learns the hard way that she's not the only woman in Ty's life.

They say you can love a person through everything. When your truly in love nothing can come between it. No barrier or barricade can come between 2 people in love because the heart wants what the the heart wants. But what happens when that barrier is your own child.

After her first heartbreak, 24-year-old Jade Matthews buried herself into her work. That is, until she crosses paths with Dante Williams-a nerdy, New York Times bestselling Black author. The best part? He's obsessed with her.

Abigail Mae Carter was born before sunrise on a hot July morning in 1947, in a little house tucked between cotton fields and pine woods outside Macon, Georgia. Her mother said Abigail entered the world singing. Her father said she entered it hungry. Both were probably right. The Carters didn't have much. Their house was small, their money smaller, and there were six children sleeping under one roof. But there was always music. On Sundays, Abigail's mother sang gospel in the church choir. Her father played blues guitar after supper. Her grandmother knew old spirituals, work songs, and stories that had traveled through generations of Black Southern families. Abigail listened to all of it. By the time she was six, she was making up songs. She sang about everything-the creek behind the house, the woman who sold sweet potatoes downtown, the boy who broke her heart at church when she was only eight, and the red dress her mother had sewn from leftover fabric. At ten, Abigail performed at a local church fundraiser. At twelve, she was singing on a small radio program. At fourteen, people in neighboring towns were beginning to know her name. But Abigail's dream was bigger than Georgia. She wanted to write songs that could make a person laugh while they were crying. She wanted to sing for people who had never been heard. Most of all, she wanted to prove that a Black girl from a poor Southern family could walk into any room in America and belong there.

Three friends' search for answers about magic has a price, and the Queen will make them pay. ******** First 6 chapters only! Get the full book for FREE at JarrodKing.com/subscribe ******** Slade Maxwell is a noble and a senior in college who's expected to graduate and be next in his family to work for the queen. His desperation to escape that path leaves him unprepared for class, but when his classmate, a chiseled warrior by the name of Douglassaire Hart, asks their professor about an ancient sword called the Djed Key, Slade pays close attention. The sword is a mythical relic that's said to have brought magic to the world, and its secrets could be Slade's ticket out. He joins up with Douglassaire, wondering what else he knows. And, should he open himself to the warrior, will his feelings be returned? Slade's best friend, Gisela Benitez, who is still reeling from her mother's mysterious death, harbors a secret crush on Slade that draws her into his quest with Douglassaire. What the three of them find out leads them to a bloodthirsty magician, possession by spirits, and a vengeful queen who will stop at nothing to find the Djed Key for herself. What starts as a journey of self-discovery soon becomes a race against time. Will they be able to save their world or will the queen start a war that could bring her to ultimate power?

October 31st 1981 in the small-town of St.Barbara is the first Halloween Michael Jackson gets to spend in like a normal youngster with his friends Chris Tucker and Grace Flowers, the secret girl of his dreams. They plan a night if fright and fun, but when the plans for the best night of their life suddenly go down the drain, the night as they spend it takes a gruesome turn for the worst...