Short Mystery/ Crime Stories

“Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not...

As a lover of the written word and also a writer of historical fiction, it is heart wrenching to learn that some people seek to ban any...

Maroons - More of what they didn’t teach us in school. In researching run-away slaves and the Underground Railroad I learned that even...

US MAIL SERVICE The first post office was established by William Penn in Pennsylvania in 1683. Prior to the establishment of reliable...

The Queen of Historical Fiction On January 22, 2021 the world lost a literary treasure, Sharon Kay Penman, one of the greatest historical...

The Land Beyond the Sea Sharon Kay Penman The Land Beyond the Sea Sharon Kay Penman Sharon Kay Penman skillfully brings the ancient world...

The removal of a movie because it makes some people uncomfortable, may satisfy a few, but will only serve to smooth a few ruffled feathers.

For a number of reasons, it has been close to nine months since I’ve penned a blog or did any significant writing, but I’m doing my best...

This story was published in Times of Joy and Sorrow “You smell!” “So do you.” “Yeah, but you smell so bad that even the rats don’t want...

Black Lives Matter is not a new sentiment or creed. Black lives have always mattered. We mattered when the colonizers decided that we...

Mary Elizabeth Bowser - A Hero Harriet Tubman is probably the most well-known African American woman recognized for leading slaves to...

Most people had never heard of a free black town before the 1997 movie Rosewood. As depicted in the movie, Rosewood was settled

I watched an episode of the History Channel’s documentary, The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen – Live Free or Die Part 3. This...

FREE DOWNLOAD Times of Joy and Sorrow Kindle Store from April 19 – April 23 This is a collection of African American short literature....

When the writing of Dark Legacy was coming to an end, I was struggling for an ending that would be both climatic and engaging. I wanted...

Saturday, June 30, 1832 Last night was another of those nights when the heat of the day did not cool after the setting sun. It was too...

It has been a very unsettling few weeks for all of us. It seems that some sort of disaster has occurred in our country (including the...

As I have written before, my husband and I sold our house and moved into an apartment. We are finally settled in but it has been quite an...

(The Vance Legacy begins in 1832 and Lillian is a slave. She is unable to read or write at this time. However, her diary is based on what...