Jahmar has survived his arrival in Brooklyn, but he’s about to meet an enemy no Jamaican boy should underestimate: a New York winter!
Determined to experience snow for the first time, he heads to Prospect Park wearing shorts, flip-flops, and two beach shirts. What could possibly go wrong? Apparently, everything!…
Flash Fictions
Sixteen-year-old Jahmar has finally made it to America! But the Brooklyn that greets him is nothing like the sunny, glamorous paradise he imagined back in Jamaica. Between impatient taxi drivers, crowded streets, a tiny apartment, and two mischievous little sisters, his American Dream is already off to a rocky start.…
Jahmar speaks English. He’s been speaking it his entire life. So why does everybody in Brooklyn act like he’s speaking another language?
On his first day at Erasmus Hall High School, the young Yardie encounters intimidating security checkpoints, confused classmates, and a cafeteria that commits the ultimate crime against Jamaican…
Everyday April follow her instinct but this particular day she made a different turn. Is it a lesson she will live to regret?
Caught up with work and having tunnel vision John must confront a reality he never thought he had to.
Abico finds a world he never knew existed. Now he must face the reality of that revelation.
You walk pass them every day. They are considered the lowest in society, but who were they before they ended up the way they are?
Lena found herself entering a world filled with magic and mystery. Will it change her life?
Leroy move abroad but is struggling with the differences between the life and environment he once lived in to the one he is now must survive in.
