Eustace Dailey has a Harvard degree, an artist's eye, an active social life, and more money than he knows what to do with at his age. He should feel on top of the world. Instead, he constantly second-guesses his choices–especially when it comes to Jeremy.Jeremy Jacob Carter has confidence, charisma, the perfect girlfriend, and only a year left in law school. He is supposed to have it all, but a chance connection with Eustace threatens to undermine everything he worked so hard for.

The silence of a spiritual community is shattered by the murder of one of their own.Jordan and Rahman Gaffney-Bruce, newly married men, move into the eccentric Washington neighborhood known as Slope to start building a life together. Built precariously on a hill, Slope is home to descendants of the Great Migration and is now a lower middle class Black community trapped in a cycle of spiritual depression.In the midst of this community, the Gaffney Bruces gat...

Justin Kena never knew his own strength. He was an average guy stuck working at a mediocre nonprofit in Washington, DC, unsure exactly where his next professional steps would take him. He was awkward, bored, lonely, and bordering on depression. With nothing to lose, he accepts a proposition from his friendly neighborhood corner boy that forever transforms his life.A guru and a hustler all at once, Dante earns Justin's trust and ushers him into a new and terrifying world just under ...

TIME: Essays, Poems, Short Fiction, & More collects twenty years of some of the best writing from Rashid Darden, including never-before published poems, favorite blog entries, the award-winning play Message from 'The Legba' and the short story "Smith & Jones: Young Americans." Time also includes "Negotiations: A Dark Nation Story."

Terror lives in Southeast DC.For the children of Pomegranate Place, there is little difference between ordinary terror and extraordinary terror. Family members become sexual predators. Young mothers disappear into thin air. Stray bullets claim the lives of toddlers, while aimed bullets claim the street's soldiers. while the names of the victims are forgotten to time. Monsters have taken hold of this struggling neighborhood and no one is coming to the rescue.A mysterious tea...

One day, horror writer Steven Van Patten decided to do something nice for a change. So, he called some friends and asked them to donate stories for a good cause. Some of the selections were previously published, others brand spanking new. Then, together with editor Candance Nola, SVP curated and published this very book, featuring some real greats in the horror spec fiction game. Your contributors are: Marc Abbott- Rashid Darden- Patrick Frievald- Teel James Glenn- Kirk A. Johnson- Anthana...