Audio book

My book PHAT BOI is now available on KDP audiobooks on Amazon. You can listen to a sample or the whole story for free if you have a subscription to Kindle Unlimited. Here is a summary of what my story is about.

Cedric is a gay, overweight black man with self-esteem issues, which he hides behind his sense of humor. He has a smart mouth but is vulnerable when it comes to love. At a spiritual retreat, he meets Walter, who is attractive, masculine, intelligent and entirely out of his league. Cedric is immediately infatuated. To his surprise, Walter responds favorably. As their friendship develops, so do Cedric’s feelings for Walter. When unsettling secrets about Walter emerge, Cedric chooses to overlook them. A devastating event takes Cedric by surprise and forces him to confront the truth about Walter—his life will never be the same again.

A Brief Obsession


My new short story A BRIEF OBSESSION is now available on Amazon. It is FREE today until midnight July 3rd 2023. This is a new genre for me. It is urban and does include some explicit erotica. Please get your copy and I’d love it if you left a review. https://rb.gy/0xbnq

This is a short story about a case worker named Helena who is overqualified and bored with her job until one day a client named Malcolm shows up and totally gains her attention in an unprofessional and inappropriate manner.

Helena is an ivy league college graduate from Spelman college in Atlanta who chose social work and now has regrets over that choice. She is job hunting for a job better suited to her skill set, while working for a non-profit organization that deals with poor people. Her job is to find them housing and hopefully a vocation.

When assigned to Malcolm, she is totally turned around by his masculine, physical beauty and intelligence which he hides behind a thug exterior. Helena finds herself attracted to him regardless of the consequences which in hindsight will be to her detriment.
This story does contain X-rated graphic sexual content: erotica, urban, African American.

A Brief Obsession

This is the cover of my new short story that I intend to publish in the coming weeks. It is titled A Brief Obsession. It’s a departure from what I usually write, which is romance or contemporary stories. This is urban infused with erotica. I get to break the rules here and use slang, cuss words, and graphic sexual descriptions.

Urban fiction covers usually have big-breasted, big-assed women and thug men with muscles and attitude. That is what I got from the first draft by the cover designer whom I’d hired. I hated it. He obviously didn’t listen to my detailed instructions on what I wanted. I had to remind him to reread my original notes and give him further instructions on what was lacking in the draft he’d sent me. I even sent him stock pictures to give him an idea of what I wanted. He ended up using one of those pictures and made adjustments to create the scene I wanted for the cover.

What you see here is what he came up with and it was a lot better than the original draft. I didn’t want to spend much on this project because this is a very short story. I wanted the cover to not be too stereotypical yet at the same time still have those elements that you see frequently on urban novel covers.

I mentioned earlier that I get to break the rules in this story. I do but only to a point. This is still a well-written, thought-out story that will cause a reaction when read because of the powerful issues that it deals with. This is also a story about a man and a woman, not a man and a man.

This story will be released on Amazon. It is a cheap, quick read that will leave you with a bitter-sweet aftertaste because of the serious content it contains.