This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright © 2002 by Retha Powers
Contributions copyright: “Jalapeño Love” © 2002 by Bil Wright, “Planting” © 2002 by s smith, “Goodbye” © 2002 by Eric Jerome Dickey, “Kiwi” © 2002 by Jacqueline Woodson, “Fucking the Fat Man” © 2002 by Breena Clarke, “One-Night Stand” © 2002 by Bernice L. McFadden, “Venus in Scorpio” © 2002 by TaRessa Stovall, “Roses, Red, Room 416” © 2002 by Lolita Files, “Stores” © 2002 by Reginald Harris, “The Dawn of Our World” © 2002 by Carolyn Ferrell, “Pisces” © 2002 by Anne Atall, “Me Between My Own” © 2002 by Camika Spencer, “Fish Eyes” © 2002 by Kim McLarin, “Undoings in Amsterdam” © 2002 by Janet McDonald, “The Sexiest Seconds” © 2002 by Kiini Ibura Salaam, “Revelation” © 2002 by Elissa G. Perry, “Summer in the City” © 2002 by Margaret Johnson-Hodge, “Beachwear” © 2002 by devorah major, “The Princess and the Cop” © 2002 by Kathleen Morris, “Popsicles, Donuts, and Reefah” © 2002 by Bruce Morrow, “The Blue Globes” © 2002 by Thomas Glave, “A Different Drummer” © 2002 by Cheo Tyehimba, “Maya” © 2002 by Jennifer Jazz, “The Warm and Quiet Storm” © 2002 by Andrew Oyefesobi, “Sausage Boy” © 2002 by Robin Coste Lewis, “If Only” © 2002 by Krystal G. Williams, “In the Rain” © 2002 by Travis Hunter, “She Cums Every Nite…” © 2002 by Jacqueline Powell, “Specialgrl Meets Gntlwmn” © 2002 by Darris, “He Makes Love Like a Woman” © 2002 by Carl Weber, “Mojo Lover” © 2002 by Donna Hill.
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First eBook Edition: February 2002
ISBN: 978-0-7595-2689-1