Within these pages you will meet an array of characters. Choices are made that will change lives. Are they right or wrong? You decide. Each brief story deliberately distills a life's essence. Mika Sugano's original illustrations compliment D. K. Cassidy's flashes of fiction, heightening these refreshing ideas and themes on the page. Welcome to urban Gothic stories that are droll, horrific, and thought provoking. George, a child who collects things Cinderella's stepmother in therapy A paraplegic finds her true life Caleb, unwanted, neglected, now grown Jared, baptized in a coffee world A...
Within these pages you will meet an array of characters. Choices are made that will change lives. Are they right or wrong? You decide. Each brief stor...
Its 1967 East Los Angeles. Duffy Chavez is ten years old and from a large, mixed-race, single-parent family. Growing up is never easy, but for young Duffy Chavez, whose childhood is anything but innocent, the journey is particularly painful.
Swimming against the tides of her troubled family as well as her own cultural identity, she struggles with the cards she has been dealt. Buoyed up by the belief of a select few, she strives to achieve the kind of self-knowledge that comes so naturally to the real girls all around her. As gaps in the narrative begin to fill, and the truth surrounding...
Its 1967 East Los Angeles. Duffy Chavez is ten years old and from a large, mixed-race, single-parent family. Growing up is never easy, but for young D...
