He was relieved and thrilled he was able to hold together his fledgling relationship with his son. But he was disappointed and shocked to discover that Michele had been married and did not tell him. Worse, why was her ex-husband at her house? “You can go ahead and finish your videogame, Gerald,” ...
She knew Brandon’s attention would be hers. But she did not expect to see Kwame there. “There goes your young suitor,” Mary said. “Did you tell him you were going to be here?” “I must have; I can’t remember,” she said. “I haven’t talked to him since I saw him at the game. We didn’t talk about ton...
Three of his friends around his age had died in the previous five years, two of a heart attack, one from a stroke. In either case, it was about an unhealthy lifestyle. He committed to himself that he would not have an avoidable demise. At the first funeral, he was especially shaken because Danett...
I reflected on that gun being pointed at me. I knew I would not have handled that the same if I did not know I was going to die. I surely would have been scared to death. Growing up in Southeast D.C. exposed me to a lot of stuff. But I never had a gun pointed at me. The way I dealt with that cop ...
“I needed this time away more than those kids of ours needed it,” Madeline said. “They have their neat little lives, daughter off to college. And here we are. I’m a widow and you’re divorced.” “But we can’t let that keep us down,” Brenda said. “I had my moments of depression, even though I was th...