![]() ![]() I’m keeping you, and that’ll keep me in line.” He wasn’t too thrilled that he had to pay off another girl, but I assured him you’ll be the last. “I told you, my dad fights potential scandal with his checkbook, not hitmen. “Are you crazy, Carter? He really will send a hitman after me!”Ĭarter shakes his head dismissively. I’m glad he finds this so amusing, because I’m starting to sweat. “Even embellished a little to really drive home the point of how much damage you’re capable of inflicting, if we didn’t make some gesture to keep you on our good side.” Wouldn’t make the family look too good, either.” Things that might derail that career in law I’m planning to pursue. Things you could potentially tell people about down the road, if you didn’t like me so much. Cocking his head to the side in a guilty fashion, Carter says, “I may have told him some things to give him incentive. ![]()
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It stars Sharon Leal, Boris Kodjoe, Tasha Smith, Tyson Beckford, Emayatzy Corinealdi, and William Levy. Addicted is a 2014 American erotic thriller drama film directed by Bille Woodruff from a screenplay by Christina Welsh and Ernie Barbarash, based on Zane's novel of the same name. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I imagine many women have lost their ever-lovin’ minds because of that smile. He’s got a great smile, and paired with those gorgeous eyes of his, it’s deadly combination of sexiness. He smiles and a tingle erupts in my belly before spreading though the rest of my body. One night forced to share a bed in a sold-out hotel, lines blur between them and they quickly learn that one lustful night changes everything and neither one of them will ever be the same.Ī girl running away from her past troubles and a man constantly battling the darkness of his past come together in this story of friendship, lust, alpha male protection and fighting for what you want.Īnna is instantly attracted to this fine specimen of professional wrestler. Phenomenal X has an animalistic nature that even good girl Anna finds hard to resist. ![]() ![]() Tired of living under the thumb of her conservative family, she defies them when she accepts a job as the assistant to wrestling’s most notorious bad-boy. His muscular physique makes men cower before him and women lose their minds with desire.Īnna Cortez is fresh out of college and naive to the harsh realities of the real world. One Phenomenal Love.įrom the mean streets of Detroit rises the newest superstar of professional wrestling, Xavier Cold, better known as Phenomenal X. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Fifth Wave, composed by Rick Yancy, is a dystopic novel that takes the class to another level. by Putnam, a division of Penguin Group USA and distributed by Puffin in the UK, Laffont in France, Goldmann in Germany, and in more than thirty extra dialects around the globe. In 2013, Yancey’s next set of three commenced with The Fifth Wave, distributed in the U.S. In 1991, Yancey connected for an administration work and was employed by the Internal Revenue Service, where he functioned as operators for a long time. After graduation, Yancey anticipated going to graduate school.Īt last, Yancey ruled against graduate school and started showing English classes and additionally acting and coordinating in neighborhood group theaters. Following a year at Florida Southern College, Yancey exchanged to Florida State University and, at last, moved on from Roosevelt University with a B.A. ![]() In the wake of moving on from Lakeland Senior High School, he was acknowledged to Florida Southern College and majored in Communications. ![]() Yancey composed his first short story in the seventh grade while going to Crystal Lake Junior High School in Florida. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Ruby, what does the future look like?” Nico asked. ― Alexandra Bracken, quote from In The Afterlight The only one they'll use to tell our story.” ![]() It is the button that should never have been pushed, the door that shouldn't have opened, the dried blood that couldn't be washed away. I see it in the face of a broken compass, feel it in the numbing grip of grief. The color of Chubs's hair, Liam's bruises, Zu's eyes.īlack is a promise of tomorrow, bled dry from lies and hate. It is the barrel of a new gun, leveled at your heart. A forgotten night sky broken up by faded stars. Black is the mud, the lidless eye watching your every breath, the low vibrations of the fence that stretches up to tear at the sky. ![]() It is a uniform stretched over the broad shoulders of an angry young man. The heaviest hour of night-the one that traps you in your bunk, suffocating in another nightmare. “Black is the color that is no color at all.īlack is the color of a child's still, empty bedroom. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here is where Sebastian took his first fat-footed baby steps here is the house where Judith was living when we took her to her death. This is true whether it’s a parent deciding what’s worth recording of a child’s early life or-like Europe and its Stolpersteine, its “stumbling blocks”-a continent publicly reckoning with its past. What is placed in or left out of the archive is a political act, dictated by the archivist and the political context in which she lives. The word archive, Jacques Derrida tells us, comes from the ancient Greek ἀρχεῖον: arkheion, “the house of the ruler.” When I first learned about this etymology, I was taken with the use of house (a lover of haunted house stories, I’m a sucker for architecture metaphors), but it is the power, the authority, that is the most telling element. In her essay “Venus in Two Acts,” on the dearth of contemporaneous African accounts of slavery, Saidiya Hartman talks about the “violence of the archive.” This concept-also called “archival silence”-illustrates a difficult truth: sometimes stories are destroyed, and sometimes they are never uttered in the first place either way something very large is irrevocably missing from our collective histories. If what the author has to say is so important, why relegate it to the paratext? What are they trying to hide? ![]() |