This was not something I chose. It was a path chosen for me. College was supposed to be the best time of my life, but when a fatal tragedy caused a fracture within my mind, I landed in Harbor View Psychiatric Hospital for six months instead. Just when I thought I had put the pieces […]
Holidays with Dray
Everyone looks forward to the holidays with Dray and Eve and the entire Royce family. But this holiday season will be like no other in a way that no one ever imagined, and these mysterious, nefarious things start as the holiday season begins and will end with a holiday that will go down as the […]
HIS Mess, HIS Stress: Rod and Maris
Rod blindsides his family by revealing something none of them are prepared to hear. But wanting to call it quits on a 20-year marriage is not easy for Maris, and she struggles with what to do with the everyday new normal that has now taken over her family and has it in complete dysfunction that […]
Wanna-be’s
With his new girlfriend – a soccer mom with a taste for bondage – urging him to “go condo,” failed screenwriter Winfield Payton needs cash. Accepting a job offer from a college friend, he becomes the lone white employee of a black S&L. As the firm’s token white, he poses as a Mafioso to intimidate […]
Angels
Angels presents a new genre, an illustrated short story for adults. Set in inner city Detroit, this is a tale of a family beset by the traumas of drug addiction, adultery, prison, violence as well as the joys of sexuality, love and, especially, children. The mother, desperate when he husband is sent to prison, becomes […]
Phases: Mind of a Minor
Life is a series of phases, you are born a child and then you grow out of it. Everyone goes through the same phases, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, senior citizen, and then death. What if you took those same phases and made them relevant to your life, your experiences, what would they be called? Well, for […]