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Monday, July 21, 2014
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
MALAAKA GREEN'S EMERGING!
Rushing into the restaurant, Ava saw Malaaka sitting at a table and several men watching her. Once she started dancing locally she acquired many fans. Her standoffish persona and reputation as a church chick made her very appealing, not to mention her tall, strong and curvy ebony body.
Glancing up, she smiled at her mom. Ava kissed her before plopping down in the chair.
“Mom breathe… and your shirt is inside out.”
Ava looked down and was horrified to discover her shirt was indeed on the wrong side. Leaping from the chair she rushed to the bathroom to change. Malaaka’s laughter trickled behind her. When she returned, Malaaka wagged her brows and Ava had to laugh.
“Don’t be cute. I’m sorry I’m a bit late.” Malaaka winked and they ordered food. For several minutes they talked about general things until Ava asked if she were okay.
“I am good mom. Something happened at the party that freed me.” Ava glanced up at her daughter.
“I confessed that I had an abortion.” Ava felt as if someone had dunked her head in a deep well full of water and was holding it there. After several moments she blinked and tears gushed forth. Malaaka swallowed down her own tears.
“How could you Malaaka?”
“How could I what mom, confess or have an abortion?”
“Either, it never occurred to me to kill you. I was nineteen and broke and alone. You are years older and earning more than I could ever imagine and you have me.”
The word kill ran a shiver of pain through Malaaka but it passed, painfully.
“I’m grateful mom but I wasn’t ready to be a mom or a wife. I made a bad and impulsive decision and God has forgiven me. I am not asking for forgiveness from you because it isn’t yours to forgive but I thought you should know. I asked God’s forgiveness and I know I am forgiven. I was wrong, as wrong as I have ever been or ever hope to be again.”
Sweat broke out on Ava’s forehead and she took several gulps of cold water. She felt an intense desire to grab Malaaka and whip her about the head, before kicking her to the floor. She couldn’t remember ever feeling such cold rage.
Closing her eyes she prayed that away. Malaaka watched her mom.
“I didn’t even know you were having sex…” Ava murmured.
“I wasn’t until recently but I am twenty five and I got pregnant. I made a decision.”
“A horrible one. I need some time.”
“It was horrible. I grant you that but is my sin greater?”
Pushing her chair back, Ava made her way from the table and stormed out the restaurant. A whoosh of air escaped Malaaka’s lungs. Closing her eyes, she said a small prayer of her own to center herself. As horrible as that was, she knew she needed to say it. Opening her eyes she saw a young man standing at her table.
“Ms. Malaaka, are you okay?”
He appeared to be about twenty and was very tall and handsome with milk chocolate skin and amazingly white teeth.
“How do you know me?” A startled laugh escaped his throat.
“Seriously? Your face is all over the town!” A small smile played around her lips.
“Oh yea, that. Who are you?”
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Monday, March 17, 2014
SUMAYYAH'S BLOG TOUR
Title:
Little Wisdom
Author:
Sumayyah
Publisher:
Supreme Publishing
Genre:
Children’s Poetry
Hosted
By:
Diva’s Literary World www.divasliteraryworld.com
ISBN-10: 0615869955
ISBN-13: 978-0615869957
Little Wisdom is the debut inspirational
book of poems from the mind of an eight year old girl. Some will inspire you
and some will make you laugh. This book focuses on everything from loving
yourself to family to death.
4 Facts
about the Book
1. This
book is not just for kids. It offers
wisdom for the young and the old..
2. This
book teaches people to love themselves.
3. This
book teaches us about dealing with death.
4. This poetry
book was written to inspire and make people feel good.
About
The Author
Sumayyah is a fun-loving, upbeat and
smart nine year old who moved to Virginia with my parents last year. She loves
to play with her friends, go to school, write, read, play and go to Monster
Trucks shows (her favorite truck is Gravedigger) and riding horses which is her
first love. Sumayyah hopes to be an Olympic Equestrian and write another book
in the next 5 years. She is the youngest
of five children.
Social
Media Link
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Sumayyah04
Purchase
Links
Sample
Poem from the book
Life
In
life, some things are the same
Some
things are different
When
things change, we don’t always like them
Change
is not easy
It
takes time to do things in a different way than we are used to
Always
do your best
You
have it inside you to do the best you can with everything you do
No
one can stop you but you
No
matter who you are or what you do, always remain to be you.
Saturday, February 1, 2014
Preorder More Rambling... Common Sense and Such
Common sense from my perspective and my perspective is really all I have are those wisdom bits or simple understanding we would pick up or absorb from simply living and playing close attention, in many cases from those who came before us. However, there are the young among us, who could teach a thing or two about the commonest sense.
Common sense was imperative to my growth because though I was raised by strong women with common sense, there were times when they were so overwhelmed by their own lives, they were unable to always say what it was I should know or understand, however by paying close attention I was able to discern and sometimes quite by accident I absorbed and was saved by the most common.
My intent here is not to teach or preach but to share my own experiences and those things I learned through living and observation because one does not have to go through every experience, one can simply learn by paying attention and applying. There is truly no one in the world, one can learn all that is necessary by being taught one to one.
I had an experience at work once where I told a young woman she had to pay for own transcripts. Her education and books were being funded. She looked askance and asked why?
Without blinking, I said, “It is just common sense we would ask you to pay ten dollars when we had financed your education to the tune of thousands of dollars.” She stared at me blankly. Once she left it occurred to it was not common to her. If a person has not been taught, seen it up close or had it occur, it does not exist as being common. That took me a long time to reconcile.
In many ways it is much like telling a toddler not to touch the hot stove. Some will listen and others will have to touch it. However, once their hand is burned, it is then the most common thing not to touch stoves.
COMING FEBRUARY 7, 2014.
Just love!
Angelia
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