Africanamericanfiction Stories

These are illustrations of an unfinished children's book.

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

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.

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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.

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?

And they lived happily ever after! For some, happily ever after is just a tag line used in movies and children's books. Aleesia Monroe's fairy tale life had nothing to do with love or Prince Charming for that matter. All of her dreams were of success and notoriety. As a prosecuting attorney, Aleesia is quickly climbing the ladder after only five years of being hired under District Attorney Aaron Swartzberg. Part of her dream was to clean up the streets by making sure criminals were brought to swift justice. Aleesia had everything that she had ever wanted; her dream career as assistant district attorney under one of the city's most infamous District Attorneys to date and was well on her way to the top of the ladder. Although she enjoyed companionship, she knew that with her demanding career, love and starting a family probably wasn't in the cards for her, and she was perfectly fine with that. After a series of unfortunate events change her life, Aleesia is forced to rebuild her confidence and reevaluate her dreams. Taking time to focus on her innermost desires opens Aleesia up to love again. Before she can live happily ever after though, Aleesia's dreams come back to haunt her as nightmares. Having accumulated so many enemies over the years as a prosecutor, could Aleesia ever feel safe again?

*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.

September 21, 2013 was technically the day I started my new life with the man of my dreams. However, that’s also the day I died. Granted, there was no eulogy or casket, but I died within myself. My heart continued to beat and my lungs functioned as normal, but my soul died. I was left with nothing more than the shell of an existence.  It’s funny, we never realize that everything that’s good to us isn’t always good for us, until the unthinkable happens—cavities, diabetes, lung cancer—we never know until the diagnosis. Have you any idea what it’s like to lay with the enemy or break bread with your own murderer? Any idea what it’s like to have the sun rise and set on somebody else’s ass? Maybe you are familiar with what it’s like to drink from the cup that’s laced with the poison of your own demise. Have you ever really fed on hatred, or even choked on deceit? Perhaps you have, but most deny the fact that they, too, have consumed this very meal. This is how it unfolded in my life and I am going tell you exactly how that poison tastes and how deception feeds the hunger of a starving heart.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Their love was written in the stars through over 1000s of years from Ancient Egypt to a small village in Gahana in the 1680s torn apart by one of the most henious acts in human history, meeting time and time again through slavery, Jim Crow, but after all the hurt over so many lifetimes will they finally find happiness in the present day or will their love only be a Legendary love

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

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.