Fiction - Urban & Street Lit

A stunningly crafted debut short story collection, The Blink That Kills the Eye takes a poetic torch to the shadows of daily life, illuminating the characters, situations, emotions and dilemmas that pour into even the most ordinary existences.From building sites to prison cells... from...

Dhaka is the world's tenth largest city with a population of more than 18 million people. We will bring ten unique short stories from this overwhelming, vibrant, capital city to English-reading audiences in the next installation of our popular "Reading the City" series. Dhaka...

King Thomas is finally home from doing 20-plus years in the FEDs. Now that he's home, he's putting his plan to go legit and bring King & Queen Productions to life. His son, Polo Winters is an up-and-coming hood legend from the infamous Chappelle...

In the last installment, the crew is back with more drama than ever. Zayda has her memory back and is ready to get revenge on and everybody who has ever caused her pain. To any extent, Oshen is determined to get his family back...

Urban Fiction at its best! This story is of two twin boys, Jah'ceer and Nah'ceer, who were separated. They desperately wanted to find each other again. Because for both of them, something was missing. Even though they thought they were far away, they were...

MARSHAWN ANDERSON, better known on the streets as O-DAWG, is steadfast on making his crew, Mob Life, the biggest and most respected drug gang in Portland, Oregon. The clique of dangerous goons live by the creed "Mob up or get shot down." Many will...

It is said that the love of money is the root of all evil, and with fifty million dollars missing, there's a whole lot of evil going around with death lurking close behind! Mixed in with that, Nina thought she had it all on...

Violet abandons her son to the task of making dangerous smuggling runs. What is he smuggling? He can't tell anyone. But he knows he has to do it or else innocent people will suffer. And he knows enough about suffering just like his mom,...

Dove I needed a little... treat. Some relief, you might say. Life was crazy and sometimes a girl has to do something nice for herself. And I'm not talking about new shoes. Or eating chocolate. And James-well, he's the best in the business. He...

After being heartbroken by Cage, Angelina & her Collection, The Linas, build an alliance with The Minks, the female Wolves led by Flow's ex-girlfriend, that will prove to be deadly.To deal with the public blood feasts that The Linas and The Minks are creating,...

Here are three new stories in the Casus series. Each is about love and loss... and liberation. Dénouement is Peter's frank account of his personal trajectory after the death of Alice, in Paris in 1989. Although in a haze of grief, he begins a...

Dominic's Ghosts is a mythic novel set in the contemporary Midwest.Returning to the home town of his missing father on a search for his own origins, Dominic Rackett is swept up in a murky conspiracy involving a suspicious scholar, a Himalayan legend, and subliminal...

In Caterina, Claudia Durastanti presents us with a Cleopatra for our times - no exotic queen courted by two lovers with the fate of an empire in their hands but a young would-be ballet dancer who now works in as a cleaner in a...

The hustle doesn't stop...it simply keeps going. That adage is put to the test when Lorenzo Watson sinks knee-deep in the everyday struggle of life. The bills pile up and Lorenzo is pushed to his limits to stay legal. He feels the lure to...

Lake City has a lot of heavy weather, and it's not just in the air. Eduardo "Vince" Negron has a regular table at a bar-restaurant in Pigsville called El Perro Negro, from where he runs El Manojo, a motley assortment of hoodlums. Negron is...

THE REDEMPTION: PURGATORY (Volume 3)Purgatory is the third volume in Matthew Pagan's Redemptionseries. His search for Redemption is incomplete. Still mourning Trav's death, Matt is faced with the gripping reality that everybody is dying around him. He is being hunted by Naomi and Tony;...

Son of a black gangster and an Italian mother with ties to a high profile mobster, the deadly mixture allows Spaz to become the most ruthless gangster in the City of Brotherly Love. What starts off as a plot to move his mother out...

Allison, "Al" for short, has finally found her true passion in life after recently being discharged from the United States Navy. With her newly found career as a personal trainer, she enjoys helping people reach their fitness goals. She loves her husband, Jeffrey, and...

No matter the effort that Bromise Balducci put forth early on to undermine his passion to kill, he'd fall weak to the seducer of power over again. Initially, it was only his mentor and grandpa, Brisco, that basked in the joy of Bromises frequent...

What do you get when the baddest chick and four cold blooded killers enter a Newark, New Jersey strip club strapped with Mac 11s? You get a nasty body count and the lick of a lifetime Not only do Charisma, GQ, Shamar and Crook...

"A celebration of life on the streets, shared in gritty dirty glory by those too often ignored and unseen." Lesann Berry"You will come to care about this deeply flawed but charming cast of outsiders - like family." Lesann Berry, author of Passing Judgement, Alternate...

Welcome to North Harbor High...where a girl can get bullied to death.Sheridan Alexander moves to her fifth foster home since kindergarten. Her two goals are to graduate and exit the system without any more trouble. That is until she is assigned locker 572 and...

This bittersweet chronicle about how a working horse finally gains his freedom was inspired by a real animal and true events, yet its underlying theme is about the universal value of friendship. The hero is a sturdy draft horse: old, eccentric, and irritable. His...

When rock's former biggest rebel loses everything, he's forced to call in favors from all the rock star royalty whom he'd burned his entire career. With a trashed comeback tour, creditors on his ass, no record deal, a health issue he doesn't even know...

Erica Flynn never expected to die in a car crash just minutes after a fight with her husband, Dominic. But then, a modern, down-to-earth skeptic like Erica never expected to end up in an afterlife somewhere between Greek mythology and quantum theory gone haywire....

Demons. We all have them. They take various forms and affect us in different ways. Some are obvious like drugs and alcohol. Loneliness and depression and self-doubt are not so apparent if that is all you've known until college. In Holmes on the Range,...

The lost classic 'Angry Young Man' novel. A clash of two temperaments. An artist and an industrialist grow up in the same smoky town and attend the same local school. In adult life each drives fiercely towards success in his own sphere, as much...

This bittersweet chronicle about how a working horse finally gains his freedom was inspired by a real animal and true events, yet its underlying theme is about the universal value of friendship. The hero is a sturdy draft horse: old, eccentric, and irritable. His...

"I have spent years going over our past, untangling memories from dreams, trying to pinpoint the exact moment when fate sealed. The easiest place to start is with the most blatant mistake: our mother, Jenny, kept the matchbooks in the junk drawer." So begins...

About a cat - in the city. "Boo" Van Den Pelt might figure that he has it made. That is, if he ever bothered to reflect on his life of luxury as the pampered pet of a wealthy Park Avenue dowager. When his cozy...

No matter the effort that Bromise Balducci put forth early on to undermine his passion to kill, he d fall weak to the seducer of power over again. Initially, it was only his mentor and grandpa, Brisco, that basked in the joy of Bromises...

The Book of Khalid is a novel that was written in 1911 by the Arab author Ameen Fares Rihan. He wrote in English and described the perilous journey of immigrants to America. This was the first book to paint a picture of immigration, and...

Fat Tah is a criminally involved teenager growing up in the rough streets of Camden, New Jersey. During the summer before his senior year of high school, his best friend Rodney is mysteriously killed inside of a crack house. Fat Tah begins to experience...

Chelmsford, Essex; it's not the sort of place you'd normally associate with vigilantes and gangland killings, but, when self-confessed sociopath, Owen Thomson, witnesses the savage murder of one of his few remaining friends, it proves to be a turning point. Unable to go to...

Here is a collection of 10 stories by seasoned writer Robert Flanagan. The title story "Story Hour" takes you into the life of an older man seeking to reconnect with his life after his wife's passing. These are human portraits, tough and real, from...

Three poignant stories. Each confronts us with the collision of destiny and choice - and the unpredictable consequences. In Caf Beaubourg, still haunted by Alice's desperate decision, all those years ago, Peter is unable to escape his loneliness and regret. Lucky Strike is a...

The Quisling is a contemporary action thriller that follows the story of psychiatrist Dr. Zack Scarlatto who becomes involved with a volatile and violent Mexican drug cartel. It's dangerous to be even remotely associated with the gang, and to make matters worse, Zack falls...

Simon Weekes becomes an overnight celebrity after his heroics during the 7/7 Bombings. But Simon can't afford the newfound fame and attention - he has too much to lose. July 7, 2005. Simon Weekes is travelling on the London Underground when his tube carriage...

Chrome served a nine-year sentence. Before being released, he plotted on his girlfriend's friends, knowing it was an easy come up. He was not thinking of all the pros and cons of this street game, but in the midst of it all, he thought...

The third book in the Amaka Thrillers series. Funke's assignation with her pastor lover is cut short when he is assassinated in their hotel room, as she hides naked and terrified inside a sofa. Desperate for help, she calls on Amaka, who has moved...

Taken aback by Harlem's amateur decision-making skills and Zeema's revelation, Enzo is left with a broken spirit. For so long, he had his mind set on gaining Harlem's trust back, yet she became the one thing he despises the most; a liar. With both...

The Hemingway Game is the first novel from Russian playwright and performer of his own plays, Evgeny Grishkovets. The Hemingway Game is an urban romance which depicts the life of a shirt over the course of one day (worn in the morning and taken...

Lydia's Funeral Video is a one-woman play written and performed by Sam Chanse, a playwright and performer based in New York and California. In this apocalyptic satire, devout bank clerk Lydia Clark-Lin has 28 days to terminate an unplanned pregnancy, shoot her own funeral...

All it takes is one irresistible moment for marriages and friendships to start unraveling leading to betrayal, envy, lust, and murder. The truth has its consequences and someone has to answer for them.Author: Jawanza BurtonISBN-10: 1727168518ISBN-13: 9781727168518Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/22/2018Pages: 86Format:...

When Michael Donaldson the head of The Brotherhood the most powerful African American crime family decides to retire and turn his number running gambling empire over to his underlings it triggers a series of events pitting the most powerful members of the Organization against...

After witnessing her father beat and degrade her mother, over and over again, until he finally did the unforgivable, QUINN promised herself she would never give an abusive man a single moment of her time. In fact, love wasn't even on her mind, as...

ZURI finds herself enraptured by the rugged, hardcore ways of proverbial bad boy BRICK, and their hot, explicit sex only adds to his appeal. Despite Brick's dangerous lifestyle, Zuri loves him with all of her heart. But there's something very troubling that she doesn't...

Rahmique Jamingson Jr., a.k.a Rah, is a young boy born and raised from Camden, New Jersey, trying to figure out his way through life but hits some tragic struggles along the way. He is raised by a mother who struggles with a drug addiction...

Tee's life on the streets wasn't just any other lifestyle to be lived because he had to walk through a constant battle without his parents. Tee was led to a life of crime by one of his best friends in his neighborhood. Afterwards, Tee...

You would think that every woman wants a man that works hard, pays the bills, and still manages to be a good father and take care of her needs. Right? Shonte' had all of that, but it still wasn't good enough for her. Being...