Fiction & Literature > Literary Criticism

The unhappy coyote is a coyote's journey of self discovery and the pursuit of happiness. It is incomparable in terms of storytelling, it will certainly be unlike anything the reader will have read. This story is not for children as they may be sensitive to the topics covered in this novel.

Conversation on America’s Black urban family, its functionality, and continued struggle to find purpose within the daily taunt of institutionalized racist systems. All that seems to provide much of the devastation that plagues Black existence as a community. Whereby the challenge for equality, wealth, and education has created a real conflict for black value and acceptance into mainstream white America. In this lies the “Wooden Nickel” for which we shall explore and diagnose to help bring a new focus towards being a Black American in this nation.

A young teenager named Derek is seeing the world and how terrible it is in the current time he’s living in. He goes into the future in a dream he has and travels 50 years into the future, only to find out the world is in disarray and it’s in complete ruin and turmoil. As he’s going around the world in this time machine, he soon realizes that the world he currently lives in, has to be changed in order to prevent the future from looking the way he’s seeing it in his dream. The question is, can a young kid living a world full of ‘know-it-all’ adults save the world from looking like an all-out catastrophe? Time will tell, for the future may not even be guaranteed.