Coming From Where I'm From I: Revised Edition

Coming From Where I'm From I: Revised Edition

LOCAL INNER-CITY HUSTLERS PREY ON OUT OF TOWNERS, BUT EVERY NOW AND THEN SOME OUT OF TOWNERS PREY ON THEM! Shirley Ann grew up on a former slave plantation in a small Texas town where the owner had been making weekly visits to her bed since she was fourteen years old. After almost three years of his abuse, her twenty year old girlfriend, Debbie taught her how to turn her pain into a profit. Shirley Ann had always dreamed of living in the big city with a cute husband, but knew her dreams would never come true in the small town of Oklaunion, where she and her granny accounted for two of the three Blacks in the whole town. Driven by desperation, Shirley Ann did the unthinkable for a chance to live in Houston. Two short days of living in one of the roughest hoods in Houston, known as the Firth Ward, she fell in love with the first cute boy she met. However, the plans he had in store for her were nowhere close to what she expected. He introduced her to a world she never knew existed, a world filled with adversity. Together, they weathered some major storms, but then came along something from the past that shuttered their happy home …