Harold Cruse was right. The Crisis of the Negro (Black/African American) Intellectual is real. But if doesn't have to be. There are solutions to be had. If only Black leaders were looking in the right places.

Toril and Malena barely complete wedding vows before their future crumbles. War ignites the borderlands; conspiracy stalks the young clan chief. Attackers raze their town, assaulting Malena and leaving her near death. Whoever commissioned the violence kidnaps dozens of children, with plans to sacrifice them in taboo acts of blood magic. Legend says an ordeal might give the couple power to fight back--but its price is as mythic as its potency... Can they battle real and inner demons, sacrif...

Rafa thinks he's safe in witness protection until a former FBI partner is murdered, and he's arrested for the crime. Has he been set up?He can't divulge enough truth to get off--it would endanger his new family. Sentenced to life in prison and heartbroken by his wife's rejection, he trades cell time for a one-way ticket off-planet and becomes a disposable employee for a company prospecting the galactic frontier.Explorers get implants that transmit their neural impulses back...

Are human beings doomed to muddle through a dreary existence, bereft of hope? Can we do better than put a brave face on it, as Camus recommended in "The Myth of Sysiphus"?In this one-act play--a classic response to existential favorites such as "Waiting for Godot" and "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"--two actors wrestle with science, religion, an unseen director, and their own choices about how they'll interpret the script they've been given.Snappy dialog, whimsy, an...

Hear My Voice: Stories of Coming Out. An anthology of 'coming out' stories.