This family-friendly adventure brings imagination to life! Oh Khalil and the Color Block Bandit follows a young scholar named Khalil, whose excitement for show-and-tell turns into an unforgettable mystery. The night before school, Khalil carefully sets out his favorite color blocks, only to discover they've vanished by bedtime!Determined to solve the case, Khalil transforms into his superhero alter ego, "OH KHALIL!" Armed with his trusty cape and the lette...

"Do you take love or power?" he asked pointing the gun right at my forehead.In the underworld of Atlanta, blood ties are not only sacred, but also deadly. Ariella Johnson, a fearless law student, had no idea she would be bound to ruthless Mafia Don Luis DeLuca.He marries her not out of love, but to gain power, claiming her before his rival. To the outside world, she is his wife and a symbol of strength.But Ariella refuses to be controlled. Defiant and sharp-tongued,...

EMERALDS ARE FOR EVILShirley was sultry, sexy, smashing—a sweet young thing to make a sugar daddy's mouth water. This luscious lass loved pretty baubles, so no wonder men showered her with jewels. But when a deluge of emeralds turned into a reign of terror, Shirley needed someone to bail her out.That brought Bertha Cool and Donald Lam into the act, as the indomitable detective duo discovered that emeralds could be a girl's worst enemy when they carried a price tag of murder.....

As the story goes, it was a drug dealer who kept getting his spots robbed, and his men shot for pennies on his dollar, and drugs he could replace a hundred times over, but Promise father just wouldn’t stop. Fed up, the kingpin put a price on his head, seeing how others in the underworld were also fed up with this out-of-towner’s activities. Taking advantage of the opportunity, Promise uncle handled the task, going so far as to take pictures for evidence, and went to the Man himself like he...

Joshua always thought he'd stay in the military for life. Months after leaving his last enlistment and still young, he can't adjust to the civilian life he never wanted. When a simple search-and-rescue request spirals into an investigation around a missing person and the only witness is in a coma, Joshua finds himself paired up with the interminable Meyer. Meyer just won't leave Joshua alone... and soon Joshua is hoping Meyer never leaves at all. How can he reconcile wanting this man with ...

Victor Kazakovich—the youngest offspring of the Fangs, the outcast bloodline—emerges in a village replaced with shallow graves and his father's grinning face. Upon witnessing his father's grim actions, he grows uncertain of his family's true fate and embarks down a bloody path in search of their whereabouts. His path of destruction and vengeance only leads him to his childhood best friend, Leon D'Amate. Heartbroken and betrayed, Victor explodes into a bloody siege, still determined to secu...

A Southern Mystery in Willow's End, sweet tea flows, secrets linger, and betrayal tastes bitter. For ten years, six close friends have gathered every Saturday night until one of them turns up dead, poisoned by an invisible hand from within. Fear spreads like wildfire. As more lives are claimed, Rachel Harlow must uncover the truth buried deep beneath their friendships before she becomes the next victim. In a town where everyone knows your name but not your soul trust is fragile, and the pa...

One Good Eye, One Blind: A Difficult Life is a powerful and deeply personal memoir by Edward Fair—a story of challenge, determination, and triumph over a world not designed for those who are different.Born two weeks premature and blind in his right eye due to an undeveloped optic nerve, Edward entered life with a visible difference that would shape every step of his journey. From a young age, he realized that others saw him as different—classmates stared, teachers had to rearrange ...

This isn't a love story for the faint of heart.It's tragedy and passion, intertwined.He was broken by fate…She became his salvation.Their love walked through fire to survive.

The Hemlock: A Literary Arts Journal – Spring Issue 07 | May 2025The Spring 2025 issue of The Hemlock is a vivid tapestry of voices and visions from around the world. This edition brings together an extraordinary collection of poetry, fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction, visual arts, and book reviews, showcasing the work of writers and artists from diverse nationalities, cultures, and creative traditions.Each page is a doorway into...

At Hillside Academy, the rules are everything. Break them and the headmaster always wins.Nestled in the golden hills of Santa Monica, Hillside Academy is no ordinary school. It is the nation's most prestigious training ground for aspiring makeup artists and stylists a place where glamour and ambition meet discipline and order. Every graduate leaves with a guaranteed career in Hollywood's competitive world, where starting salaries exceed sixty thousand dollars a year and opportuniti...

For some the quest for an idyllic life is more than a vision; it demands to be realized. Thomas Fair compares it to the monster in the film Forbidden Planet, arising in a perfect world created by intelligent beings; a destructive beast that is a product of their own hubris. Fair goes back to the French Revolution and its attempt to completely alter social structure and tradition. The Paris Commune and the writings of Marx and Engles pointed utopian thinking, by then known as Socialism, str...