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Mar 29, 20248 min read
Alice in Gangland: Chapter Three
Chapter Three: All About Ali.. Ali aka “Toni” My name is Alice Octavia Phillis Cooper. Named after three literary greats: Alice Walker,...
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Mar 27, 20249 min read
Alice in Gangland: Chapter Two
Chapter Two This has to be Mecca. In the six months that I’d been in Gangland, it was impossible to get through a day without hearing...
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Mar 25, 202411 min read
Alice in Gangland: Chapter One
Westside of Gangland Monroe Street Circa. 2024 “And sometimes we run towards the very thing we want to escape.” Chapter One “So, when you...
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Mar 22, 20248 min read
Alice in Gangland: Read the Prologue
Welcome to Gangland. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. But if you leave, it will cost you. Gangland: A city, about the...
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Nov 9, 202314 min read
Read Chapter One: Beauty & the Billionaire: Mars & Apollo
Chapter 1: Mars Rain tapped lightly on the window of DuPont Tower, creating the perfect scene for what already felt like a dramatic day,...
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Sep 27, 20237 min read
The Miseducation of a Good Girl: Read Chapter One
Blood & Water Outlaw “Luke Murray, you’re out.” It’s about damn time. Standing up, I ran my hand over the front of my suit jacket to dust...
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Aug 11, 20236 min read
"Princess & the Plug": Read Chapter Five
Chapter Five Aliyah Also, that night… “So, how was your last day slumming it up with us regulars before you start dating the sexiest man...
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Aug 9, 20235 min read
"Princess & the Plug": Read Chapter Four
Chapter Four Killian Later that night… The warehouse Maxwell told us to meet him at was a beast of concrete and steel, nestled within the...
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Aug 5, 20235 min read
"Princess & the Plug": Read Chapter Three
Chapter Three Aliyah “Mr. Turner, I swear, you’re the toughest man I’ve ever met,” I chuckled, adjusting the I.V. drip as he batted my...
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Jul 31, 20235 min read
"Princess & the Plug": Read Chapter Two
Chapter Two Killian A rhythmic pulse vibrated through the dimly lit club, thrumming through the air, and sinking into my bones as I sat...
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Jul 29, 20239 min read
"Princess & the Plug": Read Chapter One
Chapter One Aliyah The air was thick with tension as I stared down at the unconscious body on the operating table. Mr. Turner, a...
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Apr 24, 202310 min read
Chapter Six - Back With the Crew.
Janelle “Thank yourself for coming to the mat for this session of yoga, and open your eyes. Namaste.” “Namaste,” I repeated, slowly...
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Apr 18, 20235 min read
Chapter Five - Mr. Murray.
Outlaw Damn. It felt good as hell to be me these days. I was on top of the world. Imagine that shit. A young, wild nigga like me ain’t...
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Mar 31, 20234 min read
Chapter Four - Baby Blues.
Sidney “Can you talk to him, Sidney. Please?” Smiling, I snorted out a chuckle. “Did you say please? Not Isaiah begging! This must be...
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Mar 9, 20238 min read
Chapter Three - Three's Company.
Teema “Damn, lil’ mama, you got a fat ass. Can I get your number?” Smiling, I tooted my ass even higher in the air, blossoming under the...
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Feb 24, 202312 min read
Chapter Two - Wifey Material.
Carmella 100% nerd. 100% uptight, with a stick up her ass. 100% my best friend and 1000% my sister. That was the formula God used when he...
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Feb 15, 202312 min read
Chapter One - The Honorable Judge Pickney-Murray.
One Month Prior “Carmella, I hope you’re not calling me trying to sell that nasty-ass weight loss tea. I already told you, even though I...
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Feb 8, 202316 min read
Prologue - The Beginning of the End.
Twenty-five years. You read that right. Twenty-five motherfuckin’ years. That’s how many years I’d been married to Janelle, and I could...
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