"Life": A Book of Short Stories and Poems - Paperback

by Brandalyn Gill (Author)

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.

Author Biography

At the time this book was first completed, Brandalyn Gill was a fun-loving, ambitious, and adventurous sixteen-year-old sophomore in college, merely pursuing her dreams and praying every day that every one of them would come true. She is a Houston-born resident, who has a deep passion for the literary art and is thankful for all the joy and excitement it has brought her. She graduated from high school at fifteen years old and began attending college at Lone Star College until she transferred to the University of Houston to become a junior at seventeen. She works hard in all that she does with every moment of life she is granted. She thanks God, her father, her mother, her Grannie, her Aunt T, her Aunt D, her Grandpa Reginald, her God family, her real friends, her 'Momma T' and any other soul sent to touch her heart in some way, encourage her, educate her, or just to spend precious moments of their life with her. She hopes that you have enjoyed or will enjoy this book and allow it to only positively influence your life in some sort - that it inspires you to live your life to the fullest, accomplish every dream you set your heart to desire, and enjoy life as long as you are granted the inestimable opportunity to do so. She has nothing but love for all those who have stuck by her throughout the years; she has and will see to it that they will be greatly rewarded, many times over.