Can crime stories reveal something about who we are?
Bobby Saraceno is 22-years-old and passing for white in circles where his truth would put him in serious danger.
Before long, his friend has involved him in a hate crime against another person of color.
Aaron did not come back from prison redeemed.
What would Aaron do if he realized his friend and witness is also part black?
Things get even more complicated when Bobby’s father re-enters the picture, which threatens to expose all.
Riots and the O.J.
Simpson trial in the mid-’90s."
John Vercher’s fiction has been published in Akashic Books' noir seriesMondays are Murderand the flash-fiction seriesFri-SciFi.
“But she was already not your average teenage girl.”
Portia’s severe anxiety disorder had left her isolated, and her kid sister Piper was her only friend.
She’s smoking, she’s drinking, and still agonizing over the grief of the accident.
Putting the story on paper is a way she hopes to “save lives with words.”
She also hosts an online community where people who are going through difficulties can share their stories atTell Patricia.
The Ninja Daughterby Tori EldridgeOut Nov. 5.
Lily Wong has dedicated her life to the protection of women after the brutal murder of her sister.
Mom would be horrified by her daughter’s vigilante secret.
In real life, the author describes herself as a “Hawaiian-Chinese-Norwegian modern-day ninja.
