Life: A Book of Short Stories and Poems

During a fast-paced era of limited time and digital frenzy, this book was devised in promising increments to slow down the body, minister to the mind, and change your life, shall you allow it. Featuring poems such as “Unconditional Love”, poems to make you think such as “Redemption”, and relaxing pieces such as “Breathe”, “Life” caters to the minds of women and men from all walks of life. This first book of young author, Brandalyn Gill, includes realistic and inspiring short stories such as the heart-wrenching tale of a young lady’s journey to overcome her past of a broken family and childhood trials (“Dear Diary”) in order to progress in her adult life. Also introduced is the ground-breaking book-inside-a-book, “I Am Only a Man”, the most insightful look into the male psyche since Boys in the Hood, following the transformation of a boy to a man, as he deals with his mother’s death, troubled relationships, and the growing pains of being a man in today’s society. In a class of its own, “Life” is sure to provide you with a different insight into the life you live and the life you will begin to live, once the last page is turned. If you thirst for change and improvement, you will not want to put this momentous collection down and you will refer to it, again and again.

“…If we do not, once in our short and momentary lives, dare to push against the norm and remain steadfast against the thoughts and ignorance of others, I shall say, that we will only be immobile in a state of ignorance of our own…”

- ‘Sister Mary’, Rain Rain Go Away