African American Short Stories

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    • By: Jack Harbon
    • Narrated by: Kevin Free, Ron Butler
    • Series: Audible Original Stories
    • Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 26-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • Press play on this funny, sexy short story about rival true-crime podcast hosts forced to play nice and work together when, in reality, all they want to do is kill each other....

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    • Two Novellas
    • By: Octavia E. Butler
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 27-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • This exciting collection presents two previously unpublished stories by SF legend Octavia E. Butler....

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    • 25 Years of Prison Writing
    • By: Bell Gale Chevigny - editor
    • Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark, Shay Moore
    • Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Doing Time: For the prison writers whose work is included in this anthology, it means more than "serving a sentence"; it means staying alive and sane, preserving dignity, reinventing oneself....

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    • By: Carl Weber, Ty Marshall, Marlon P.S. White
    • Narrated by: Dylan Ford
    • Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 31-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Headlined by New York Times best-seller Carl Weber, three authors bring listeners tales of power, greed, and ambition set in some of the country's roughest neighborhoods....

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    • Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction by African-American Writers
    • By: Otto Penzler - editor
    • Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Sean Crisden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 24-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Some of the best-known and most influential pieces of crime fiction have been from African American writers. Contributors to the collection include Robert Greer, Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, Cary Phillips, Frankie Bailey, and Richard Wright....

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    • By: Deesha Philyaw
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 29-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 146 ratings
    • The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters....

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    • By: Ann Petry
    • Narrated by: Shayna Small
    • Series: Audible Original Stories
    • Length: 31 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • On a snowy Christmas Eve in an unnamed American city, the archangel Michael wanders the streets. He is alone and hungry, his clothes tattered, and when he sees his face reflected in a store window, it is that of a young African American boy....

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    • By: Mary Monroe
    • Narrated by: Patricia R. Floyd
    • Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 25-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Charles thought he had it all - until a devastating betrayal and the shattering loss of his family drove him to living on the streets. Beatrice is the first person who's truly cared about him in a long time. Little by little, he's finding reasons to care about rebuilding his life....

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    • Short Stories
    • By: Amiri Baraka
    • Narrated by: Kevin Free
    • Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-14
    • Language: English
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    • Tales of the Out & the Gone reflects the astounding evolution of America's most provocative literary anti-hero....

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    • Stories
    • By: Tananarive Due
    • Narrated by: Tananarive Due, Robin Miles, Janina Edwards
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 15-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • In her debut collection of short fiction, Due takes us to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghost; into future scenarios that seem all too real; and provides empathetic portraits of those whose lives are touched by otherness....

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    • By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
    • Narrated by: Corey Allen, Carra Patterson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 23-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Racism, but 'managed' through virtual reality. Black Friday, except you die in a bargain-crazed throng. Happiness, but pharmacological. Love, despite everything....

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    • By: Zora Neale Hurston
    • Narrated by: Ruby Dee
    • Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 16-12-99
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In Mules and Men, some of the rich cultural heritage of black America is revealed and preserved....

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    • The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas
    • By: Henry Dumas, Eugene B. Redmond - editor
    • Narrated by: Cary Hite, Korey Jackson, Kevin Free
    • Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 19-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Henry Dumas' fiction is a masterful synthesis of myth and religion, culture and nature, mask and identity. From the Deep South to the simmering streets of Harlem, his characters embark on surreal and mythic quests armed only with wit, words, and wisdom....

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    • Short Stories
    • By: Gayl Jones
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-24
    • Language: English
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    • Gayl Jones has been described as one of the great literary writers of the 20th century and was recently a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. This collection of short fiction was her third book, originally edited and published by Toni Morrison in 1977.

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