Fiction & Literature on page 3

Women’s mental health is a topic that gets discussed but not enough in today’s world. Patricia is someone who is on the path to becoming a better woman and not caving into the pressures of what the world wants her to be. She chronicles her story as a recovering alcohol addict and her story starts from childhood all the way to the present day. Her struggles, home life and how she got to becoming an alcohol addict along with recovering. It’s not an easy journey and sometimes we don’t know what women are going through mentally, emotionally and spiritually until we sit and listen to their stories. Everyone has a story, it’s just a matter of whether we’re empathetic enough to listen...

Sylvia is a licensed therapist where she helps women recover from their tragic events in their lives. The only difference is, she’s spending her days helping women recover from domestic violence relationships and marriages. Through their permission, she shares the stories of some of her clients that she’s helped, treated and gotten through their struggles. The stories aren’t easy to tell, hear and listen to but she knows that she’s making the world a better place. Sylvia also shares some components to her life that inspire her to become a therapist in helping people heal from their pain. While domestic violence in relationships and marriages are high, now it becomes the question of w ...

Nancy is at a crossroads of her life and she has some important decisions to make. As a woman, she was born into the stigmas of having kids and raising a family. When she makes the decision to not have kids and be a mother, there’s uproar from those closest to her. She goes to great lengths to live her life to the best of her ability but without judgments, backlash from her family and knowing that she has to do what’s best for her. It’s a story that takes a different road to what women decide in their lives and this is something that needs to be talked about more. Sometimes we forget that happiness comes before making others and the world happy…

The accident to Thomas Collins couldn’t have happened at a worse time. He was at the peak of his Hollywood career, a supporting actor Oscar on his mantle, a part in a proposed film that would surely earn him a shot at best actor. And then too much to drink and a wet road would change his life forever.

Come join adventurous Johanna and daring Megan on a journey they’ll never forget. It all starts when Elsie mysteriously disappears while taking a stroll in the woods. Suddenly, the national bank is robbed and three more of the sisters go missing! Their French teacher seems to be hiding a secret too, and what about her brother that is always lurking about in the woods? Those intriguing questions run through their minds…. “Who is the culprit?” “Will they ever get rescued?” To find out… come on a thrilling adventure to Willow Bend farm! A fun thrilling read for all ages!

Wayne is a mentor, teacher and father figure in the community. He works his hardest to keep kids safe and be able to reach at least one everyday. With the program of providing the school gym in jeopardy, Wayne fights to keep that in the school district’s budget. Through that fight with the school system, he’s doing all that he can to instill and teach values to the young men in Alphabet City that are at risk on an everyday basis from gangs to drugs and gun violence. With all that he does, he is all about change for the better.

Detective Xavier Rose has grown up in Alphabet City and works with the police department to solve crime and cases. His journey has taken him many places in his career and as he works on the side of the law with the police, he starts to see and understand how the community is broken. He chronicles his life as a detective, the cases he deals with, the struggles to solve them and how things can change in a place where residents of Alphabet City don't trust law enforcement and government agencies to make it a safe place to live, grow and flourish…

Vicky is the funeral director, owner and mortician of a funeral home in Alphabet City. She tells a harrowing story of her life from day to day with constant death and her being one of very few funeral homes in the neighborhood. From losing young kids to gun violence, people dying of drug overdoses, it takes a toll on a woman who knows everyone in this community. Life is not easy for Vicky but she's the aunt of the neighborhood and she has hope that the neighborhood she once remembered as joyous, gets back to that one day.

Ronald has escaped death quite a few times being a gang member in Alphabet City. His life is not what anyone would want a young man to be but he does it to represent where he's from. He talks about gang life, what it's about, what it consists of and how he mostly survives from day to day and doesn't necessarily live. Will he live to see another day? Time will tell, gang life has one of two ways to go, prison or the morgue…