My name is Dwayne Dexter. I'm an 18-year old African-American male from a major southern US city. All my life I've have been surrounded by despair and deprivation: too many friends and family on drugs, in gangs or in jail. But I'm lucky: I have phenomenal athletic ability, and can run, jump, catch and throw like no one else I know. I spent high school workin...
My name is Dikembe. I live on a small tropical island you've never heard of. I was born and raised here in a little slice of paradise called Slaver's Bay. I'm a descendant of the slaves brought to this place centuries ago to work the sugar plantations. I went to school for a few years, I can read and speak English pretty well. But formal jobs have always be...
It was Monday morning, and police cadet Katja "Kate" Perssen was driving in from the suburbs in the shiny new Jetta her parents had given her as a present for graduating police academy. Although she was newly assigned to the sex crimes unit, until she finished her training Kate was mostly working in the office writing reports and doing clerical wor...
You are driving your old car along a country road, contemplating the many failures of your life. You pull to a stop at a train crossing behind a school bus and absent-mindedly watch the cars pass, reminding you of time wasted and gone forever. Then you look up at the bus and through the rear window you can see a pretty blonde in a school uniform laughing. As...
Ahmed believed in the American dream. He grew up in a rigid, conservative country where everything was tightly controlled, from government to morality to style of dress. He enjoyed freedom--not so much political freedom, which didn't interest him terribly--but freedom to go and do what he pleased when he pleased. Ahmed was also shocked by the very different...
Stephanie Weigger, as you have grown into a kind-hearted, humble and stunningly beautiful teenager, you have started to yearn for a life beyond the idyllic little country town in which you have spent all her days. Your wanderlust has developed especially since your dearly-loved older brother Martin moved away from home to pursue studies at college in a neigh...
When the knock on the door came, it was so faint and hesitant that Raoul Famosa barely heard it. In all likelihood, he would have ignored it had he not been expecting her. Raoul wiped his hands on his jeans and rose from the table, making his way to the front door. Upon opening it, he was greeted by a beautiful young woman standing on his sunny front porch....
There's no hotter show for a teenaged girl this year than popstar heartthrob Jason Barker, and getting tickets to a one-night only performance in a major city requires serious effort, money or influence. Fortunately for Erika van Blakt, student at the prestigious Sutton Girls School and spoiled daughter of a multi-millionaire mining magnate from South Africa...