Bootlegger Stories

(COMPLETED) Two neighbours stuck in an elevator and were forced to make a conversation. Little did they know this was just a beginning, a beginning which comes with a consequences and dangers ahead.

A match made in heaven? More like a match straight from Hell. The year is 1925. He's a Prohibition agent. She's a bootlegger and a member of the syndicate he's trying to destroy. They were never supposed to meet, let alone harbor feelings for each other. But they did. Follow Raymond and Evelyn as their lives--and their hearts--collide in an epic historical drama that spans across decades. Will Raymond and Evelyn be able to create a life together? Or will Prohibition, duty, and long-hidden family secrets tear them apart? Trigger warnings: Strong language, sexual content, mental and emotional abuse, and alcoholism.

On September 16th, 1920, the world changed. It was not just the beginning of a new decade. It was the explosion on Wall Street. A TNT bomb planted by terrorists in front of the JP Morgan building. Caught up in that explosion was Ellen Cross, Luke Mason, Ellen's sister Carol, and Phillip who was the only one injured. It was now February of 1921, Luke Mason is now a successful leader of a criminal organization that exploits the new prohibition laws that makes it illegal to serve alcohol. Ellen Cross has become Luke's 'kept woman'. Ellen is no idle fixture in Luke's organization. She acts as secretary, she is also responsible for circumventing prohibition laws by creating a fleet of 'party boats' that operate outside national waters and outside prohibition laws. Carol and Phillip have not been so fortunate since that day. Phillip is now addicted to hop (opiates) and has taken to beating Carol and stealing her money. Bad drugs have shown up since the new drug kingpin of New York has taken over the trade. People are dying. Luke and Ellen decide to do something about this hop crisis before it destroys all the know and work so hard to build.

She's outgoing and ambitious. And of course, very loyal to her family. But that all changes after her grandfather is murdered and her father takes his revenge. Written as the memoir of Lucy Sweet, the daughter of a bootlegger in the 1920s. Warning: some violence but nothing in too much detail Also I do not own the picture on the cover.

This short story is based on a young teacher's encounter with a bootlegger in Pickens County, South Carolina in the 1970's. In a clash of cultures, "the meanest man," Carl, and his friend, Stupid Stewart, taught him a few lessons about life. The story won a Hackney Literary Award in 2013.

Right now, I am no one. As of tomorrow, I will be someone. This is a story of everyone- anyone- who has saught a path of opportunity and escape from the grips of poverty.

Kenzie Clearwater is an ambitious African American teenage girl who dreams of being a poet. Inspired by the black social movements going on across the country and college not so far away, she may just get her very hearts desire. But when her father arranges for her to get married, though he says it's for her protection, she can not help but fear that her dreams may not come true. Benicio Rizzitelli, Columbia graduate and son of the most powerful mob boss in the state of California. He is on top of the world and no one can tell him any different. So when the livelihood of the Rizzitelli crime family gets threatened, Benicio has no problem with defending the family's honor and name. But when everything he believed to be true is a lie, the real question comes to the surface, how much family honor is there to defend? Jackson Clearwater, Kenzie's devilishly handsome older brother who is completely devoted to his family. As his father begins to train him to take over the family business, a mysterious woman walks into his life. Could she be just the love he never thought he needed or is she a gold digger trying to drain him of his trust fund? The year is 1926 and 'Boomtown' is staying true to its name. Where love, murder and deceit have become the norm.

Star crossed lovers are destiny to fail, its just what the star have planned for them. However, can love be strong enough to to challenge the very stars? Sometimes people, even if they are destined to fail, don't quite get what they deserve so they are given a second chance, or three, or more. Ava and Vince were star crossed lovers, meeting for the first time during the height of prohibition as a sassy flapper and a heated bootlegger. Their love for each other had no equal but just as the stars foretold, they met an untimely end, but that wasn't the end. No, it was only the beginning.