Urban Tales

Adult



Urban Tales is about us, at least some of us. They are about us being funny and about us loving, lusting, and sexing. Only us could have "Dozens" players in our Christmas story. Only us know how to tip over on the down-low. These stories are streetwise, but yet will make you think and won't shortchange you. More

Urban Tales are made up of long and short stories. These stories and excerpts are streetwise and heart touching. Characters speak in elegant voices and raw urban tongues. The raw truth can make you uncomfortable, make you, and maybe make you cry. But it will never bore you. After you've read this book, feel free to check out the big books: Maura and Her Two Husbands, Minister Q, Christmas in Linken Park Chicago, and much more to come.



Excerpt Sister Gloria and Minister Q



Maybe if I confessed to the Minister directly, he would beat me himself. But I don’t know if he’s that kind of man. What kind of experience he have with women if ain’t none seen him naked? He in his twenties and ain’t no woman seen him naked but his grandma? Something ain’t right with that picture. How is little ol’ me ever to find out about this man if I can’t even get close to him? He comes to the Mosque in that big black car that looks like a block of granite. Got burly guards on each side of him looking like bulls in suits. My job around here is to vacuum the rugs—all of them except in the Minister’s office. I got to get promoted to do that. And it’ll be twenty years before I’m even thought to be good enough to be allowed to join the women who cook his meals. Ain’t enough luck in the world to get me close to that man.