African American Short Stories

Feeling lonely and out of place due to his skin color, college baseball player, Jaylen Smith, is thinking about transferring to a different school to play baseball. At a party he meets, Mary-Beth Green, a freshman pre-med student, and she proves to him that she's his biggest fan, sparking a sudden romance between them, and making him question his decision to transfer. This insta-love new adult sports interracial erotic romance is about 7,000 words long and for mature readers only.

Tisha Randall wants a boyfriend. When a likely specimen walks into her pet store to purchase "a dog or something," Tisha nearly turns him away with her disdain for would be animal owners who neglected their charges. Upon further review, Tisha realizes the man had a different type of void in his life, very possibly the same one that afflicts her.

Shauna was competing to be in one of the biggest commercials out there, and it would be one that would rake in a ton of money, not only for her but for the company that she worked for as well. They were looking for the perfect female, and with her exotic features and dark, chocolate skin, she felt like she did have a shadow of a chance with this.

Situationships is a collection of poems and short stories about everyday relationships. It was written based on real stories from real people. John Holley Jr. interviewed many people of many different ages and backgrounds and used their stories as inspirations. Every story or poem is based off one of their stories and a few of his own.

Some temptations are just too tantalizing to ignore. Can't Help the Way That I Feel, edited by Emmy award-winning and Essence best-selling author Lori Bryant-Woolridge, is a collection of titillating stories, each exploring a delicious enticement. In "The Sangria Seduction," lemon sangria becomes the elixir of lust for a player trying to seduce the naughty out of one very nice girl.

More virtues from Joy. Remember her free-spirit nature as she travels along her path to being of purpose? Well, here are more of her antics. Being able to move into and out of situations allows her to release the yuck and capture the yummy!