Fiction

Auntie, why don't people love our black men? A 15 year-old heartbroken teenager asks her aunt. A simple but poignant question births Beyond The Hashtag into the heart of Jenjii Faith. Beyond The Hashtag breathes life into the complex relationships...

After the death of his kid brother on Philadelphia's northside in August of 1994, Junior's family relocates to "Brooke's Rowe" on the southside of town. Devastated by the loss, Junior attempts to rebuild himself by socializing amongst his new peers...

Nella Larsen's 1929 novel Passing is hailed today as a significant literary work of Harlem Renaissance, though for several decades it, like all of her works, was out of print. As history rights a wrong and recommits Larsen's name to memory, it is...

"Another traumatic blow to your head may cause hallucinations ranging from brilliancy to absurdity," said the brain surgeon at the Landstuhl Medical Center in Germany where Staff Sergeant Travis Morgan first received medical evaluation following a mortar...

Eight speculative fiction authors share their tales of Carnivals. These stories explore the real world phenomena of the 1920s with horror, supernatural, and fantasy twists. What did the Miami Hurricane '26 really blow in? What if it wasn't really an...

Sinful fantasies become sensually heated realities in this steamy tale when one power couple takes voyeurism, intimacy, and open-mindedness to new sexual heights. Marika and Marcel Franklin are a strikingly handsome, thirty-something married couple with...

What type of man sleeps with a married woman?Stokely Robeson is not the type of man who usually comes to mind but he is a man who in following his heart, has found himself in an awkward web of love from which there is no painless escape.

Zoey was left no choice but to take over tha mean streets of Philly when her fiancé Quez was murdered. She vowed to bring tha killer to street justice wit tha help of her cousins, Jibbs and Zell along wit her nephews' father Cal. But everything ain't...

Zeke has just received an anonymous package that will turn his world upside down: intimate photographs of his wife with another man.Brokenhearted and trying to figure out how to cope with the revelation, Zeke goes to the office to be alone and think...

A classroom of skeptical students and their charismatic teacher make a foray into the nation's past. The characters are fictive; the history--most importantly, the vision of history, grounded in a dying but immortal dream--is real. History teacher Kevin...

In this diverse collection of short stories, with settings ranging from Mississippi to New York City, Ran Walker explores a myriad of themes, such as unrequited love, forgiveness, and hope. Whether a grandmother's secret is discovered by her...

This first edition of the action-packed urban diva series begins with a young Brooklyn hairstylist who finds herself in the wrong place at the right time. Growing up in Do or Die Bed Stuy Brooklyn, Benita Renee Jenkins has everything going for her--a...