ChickenBones: A Journal

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In After Hours, you meet brothers who offer for your nocturnal reading enjoyment a juicy gathering

of reflective stories, lusty stories, funny stories, fantastic stories-sexual adventures that will

entertain and excite, inform and ignite, all written by stylists.

 

 

Acknowledgments

Introduction 

Cultural Relativity   Charles Johnson

Twisted (an excerpt from All the Trouble You Need) Jerry Tervalen

Once Upon a Time (an excerpt from Rest for the Weary) Arthur Flowers

Odell (an excerpt from Mothersill and the Foxes John A. Williams

1-800-Connect  Brian Peterson

Rock Me Baby   Earl Sewell

If It makes You Happy  Cole Riley

Up  Kenji Jasper

Where Strangers Meet  Robert Scott Adams

The Roses Are Beautiful, But the Thorns Are So Sharp  Kalamu ya Salaam

Cayenne  Eric C. Pete

The Apostle Charles  Tracy Grant

The Rumor  Alexs D. Pate

Wallbanging  Brian Egleston

The Question  Brandon Massey

Anita (an excerpt from All-Night Visitors) Clarence Major

Home Alone  Curtis Bunn

Wild Thang  Gary Philips

Revolution  Colin Channer

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Robert Fleming has written numerous articles for Essence, Black Enterprise, The Source, and The New York Times, among others. He is the author of the African American Writers Handbook and The Wisdom of the Elders. His poetry, essays, and fiction have appeared in numerous periodical and books, including Brown Sugar (available from Plume). He lives in New York City. After Hours (256p)

 

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