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Unsaid

Laura Saintjohn, a staff writer for the Tampa Star-News, goes home to Key West and stumbles onto an age-old vendetta between two families-one white and powerful, the other black and humble. As Laura attempts to unravel the mysterious origins of this highly charged feud, our heroine--with the help of her brother Julian, his same-sex partner Kurt, and a few other new friends--encounters several odd characters, including a "fierce" Cuban drag queen, and finds herself trapped in an odyssey where many of the participants turn up dead.

In the end, Laura discovers all is not what it appears to be in the fabled Conch Republic.

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The Miseducation of Ayaiah Kincaid

An incomplete manuscript intended to be MWC’s sophomore project, Miseducation details the efforts of 21-year old Ayaiah Kincaid, a native of Tampa, Fl who is trying to complete her senior year as a journalism major at a prestigious all-black university. When the campus is suddenly terrorized by a series of bomb blasts, injuring some and killing others, Ayaiah attempts to unearth the identity of the mad bomber. In the end the disillusioned upper grad discovers that all she has learned thus far, as well as certain inner truths about her own self, has been a bold faced lie.

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Heirloom

The pre-quel to UNSAID, this ongoing project follows the centuries long journey of a cherished family heirloom--from it’s dark origins in French Colonial Haiti to it’s mysterious disappearance in present-day America. As the locket is carefully handed down from generation to generation, the reader finally gains insight into the evils that spawned UNSAID. Once again Laura Saintjohn is called apon to find out just why the mysterious deaths in the Pettybone and Gardiner families have continued.

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Ingle'hood Got It Goin' On!

A developing screenplay, Ingle’ hood details the humorous escapades of erstwhile best friends, Malik Bell and Tyuan Weeks. Naive, wide-eyed, and anxious, these two newcomers to the City of Angels are looking for an escape from the cocoon-like atmsophere of the South, only somehow they wind up in Inglewood--an enclave with its own brand of isolation. Follow the pair as they attempt to assimilate into the "Wood's" somewhat comical, an often precarious, same-sex scene. From alcoholic, geriatric bartenders who have a habit of "capping" those near and dear ("Trudy"), to straight-acting gangbangers who don't mind a little "boy-booty" on the side ("Smack"), Ingle'hood will truly amuse, often shock, and entertain you--guaranteed!







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