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Anthony, on his way from basketball practice with his team mates, is left alone as usual. Not that he minds, he loves his esoteric world. Not tonight, though. He hears sounds emanating from one of Brooklyn's sordid alley's, and with nothing better to do, he foolishly goes in to investigate. Now Anthony fi nds himself a witness to . . . He later finds out that the victim is an important man, from Washington. The icing on the cake, is that the man he saw committing the violent crime in the alley, is now looking for him, and wants him to be his next victim/trophy. Everyone is in the loop, but not Lorraine. What scares her the most, is that Anthony, her friend from childhood, is acting weird, and looking even worse. An ex-convict, and the nephew of the President of the US of A, Ed is now relishing his new life as a member of the NYPD. His hedonistic mission in life has now changed course, and Ed reluctantly has to use the little police prowess he has to fi nd the witness to his crime. This story is about Brooklyn New York, where two innocent budding high school basketball stars, have to endure the vile and grime that

Looking back on a century that witnessed the emergence of motion pictures to become, almost immediately, a dominant cultural force in our lives, this penetrating and provocative book argues that “movies (like cathedrals) cannot help but display the subconscious impulses oftheir society.” From D.W. Griffith to the Marx Brothers to film noir, “what are conceived and consumed as innocent pop movies ... are in fact manifestations of wild horror, superstitious ignorance, fatalistic dread and bigoted savagery.”

They have all dated him. They all want him back. Now they all have him - To share. One thing they all knew was that there was something or someone very important missing from their fledging music band. A band of criminals is a story of four girls that used to date the same guy in high school, but have now moved on with their lives, or so they tell themselves and each other. Now they live together, argue, fight, breathe together, and now they want to kill each other. Who said it was going to be easy?

A friend named Jay is a book about a young male, who has become a vile product of his sordid surroundings. The once kind, caring, and loving Michael has finally succumbed to the drugs that surround his grotesque world, and is losing himself within. Alone again, Michael sees an incongruous cloud floating out of the sky toward him. He then meets a stranger with an unshaved face and long hair. Since then, things just have not been the same.

God is a God of love, so we need to show love also. Through a series of personal short stories, Michael Atkinson peels back the multilayers of the ultimate emotion-love. He examines the mindset of being in love, seeking love and nourishing love through moving thought provoking tales. Each one is an honest, in depth revelation of how we love one another, and why we avoid loving one another. But tragically how we chip away the delicate fibers from the strength of love-weakening it, and eventually destroying it. In this book, are the joys and the adventures of love, coupled with the quiet sacrifice to keeping love. It shares the intensity of love, the heartache and fears of love, but more importantly the courage, dedication, humility and beauty that is truly love. To be loved and to be in love and to feel love is a wonderful feeling. Everyone wants to be loved and feel loved and grow in love. Michael shares difficult feelings about love and hopes that if you are looking for love that it will find you and bring you the joy you are seeking. These stories dare you to look inside yourself and ask, have you ever really loved?