Romance novelist, Marcia King-Gamble was born on the island of St. Vincent in the Caribbean. She studied in the United States where she has lived and worked for most of her life. Her books include The Way He Moves (Harlequin, 2008), Shattered Images (Kimani Press, 2006) and A Taste of Paradise (Kimani Press, 2005). In this email [...]

The slogan on the minibus said, Zvichanaka chete. But things did not got better, at least not for this minibus. Now it was parked outside the house. Permanently. The tires had gone flat. The windscreen had a crack. It was as if some hand had dug a knife into the top right-hand corner and had tried [...]

20,000 years before present in the Arabian Desert near the Red Sea. The previous day, Oqmar and his dog, Kur, witnessed a shiny sphere emerge from their cave floor, float up to the ceiling and make a hole then ascend up to the sky.   Shouting instructions to avoid the hole, Oqmar sent the eager Kur back [...]

Tarik H. Moore has a Bachelor of Science degree from Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland and works as an Information Technology consultant and a real estate investor. The End Justifies the Means (In Third Person Publishing, 2006) is his first novel. In this interview, Tarik Moore talks about his writing. How many books have you written so far? The End Justifies [...]

I am my Beloved’s but my Beloved is not mine. We were sitting on the edge of the road when she asked me: “What do you think of my Beloved?” I didn’t want to think of her Beloved. “Well?” she probed — big, bright, brown eyes looking up at me as if I were a genius about to [...]