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Perfect Circle: The Re-release
Ayman Sparks is the head coach of the East Seattle City University basketball team. He tries to control everything in life, just like the tight swish of a basketball. But he can’t control his life when his wife leaves him. When he meets a woman, he initially considers her a substitute for his ex-wife, but she pushes boundaries with her deep emotional issues and doesn’t go away without taking a pound of flesh.
Sterlin Baylor, the assistant coach, is pure playboy, and he bounces women in and out of his bed—and sometimes two at a time. His life changes when a woman does something foul to him that becomes a life-or-death situation for Sterlin and everyone involved.
Lois Mae has turned to Internet dating. He finds a stylish, full-figured woman who teaches literature at the university. But their dates sometimes turn dangerous as she has difficulty keeping her compulsive sexual appetite under control. Her past follows her from the abuse she received from her ex-husband and her second husband’s murder. Will her history keep her love from dying, or will she learn to live for love?
Vanita Irving is a churchgoing single mother. She is a model of beauty who appears confident and efficient, but she can’t control her life-long struggles with depression. Will she take the right steps to change her life, or will she keep repeating her past?
The beauty of Seattle and the four protagonists will keep you under an umbrella of drama to the very end.
Sterlin Baylor, the assistant coach, is pure playboy, and he bounces women in and out of his bed—and sometimes two at a time. His life changes when a woman does something foul to him that becomes a life-or-death situation for Sterlin and everyone involved.
Lois Mae has turned to Internet dating. He finds a stylish, full-figured woman who teaches literature at the university. But their dates sometimes turn dangerous as she has difficulty keeping her compulsive sexual appetite under control. Her past follows her from the abuse she received from her ex-husband and her second husband’s murder. Will her history keep her love from dying, or will she learn to live for love?
Vanita Irving is a churchgoing single mother. She is a model of beauty who appears confident and efficient, but she can’t control her life-long struggles with depression. Will she take the right steps to change her life, or will she keep repeating her past?
The beauty of Seattle and the four protagonists will keep you under an umbrella of drama to the very end.
466 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 19, 2022
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About the author
Alvin L.A. Horn
11 books35 followersAlvin Lloyd Alexander Horn has lived and breathed the Northwest air and floated in all the nearby rivers streams leading the Pacific Ocean. As in the writings of Hemmingway and poetry of Langton Hughes and novels of Walter Mosley, their books are all the byproduct of their youthful environments and travels. Alvin's African American experiences in his Emerald City background shines through in his poetry, short stories, and novels.
Growing up in the "liberal on the surface" Seattle lifestyle, Alvin experienced seeing Black people with jobs, who could go most places and had no stereotypical ghettos. Inspired by many summer days spent in his local library when his mother placed Alvin "on restriction, often for daydreaming in school." He also credits the "little gray-haired white lady, the librarian," for introducing him to the likes of Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston. Upon reading the work of Nikki Giovanni, Alvin knew he wanted to be a writer of love stories and poetry.
"Some of my erotic writing imagination came from my dad leaving Playboy magazines in a not so secret place. My friends fixated the pictures, but I just read the stories, most of the time." With a storied background,Alvin excelled in an athletic career and as coach. Alvin played sports at the University of New Mexico in the mid70's and had short pro sports career after college. Along with being a musician, actor, and spoken word artist, the knowledge and talent from several experiences show in his writings.
Alvin launched his writing career as he worked in the field of education, teaching life-skills, poetry, and creative writing while working with at-risk kids. Alvin is a highly acclaimed spoken word artist which has allowed him to travel and promote his art of words. Alvin is the 2012 Billboard Awards Winner of Best Male Expressionist of the year of Erotic spoken word. He has balanced his writing career alongside doing voice-overs for radio and TV, music, video, and movie productions, and acting. His writings have appeared in anthologies and many periodicals, ranging from fiction to erotica to social commentary.
Alvin is all over Northwest reciting poetry and playing stand-up bass at different venues. However, he does love Houston, Atlanta, Vegas, Vancouver B.C., and most parts of California and New York. Most of all, he loves being on the back deck of his houseboat, writing love poetry and stories.
Alvin has self-published and published by Simon and Schuster and other publishers.
Works by Alvin L.A. Horn
The World That Fell Into My Dresser Drawer; a book of poetry, 2001
BRUSH STROKES; a novel, 2005
PERFECT CIRCLE; a novel published by Zane and Simon and Schuster, 2012
ONE SAFE PLACE; a novel published by Zane and Simon and Schuster, 2014
BRUSH STROKES; the re-release, with an added short story, 2016
BAD BEFORE GOOD& THOSE IN BETWEEN; a novel 2017
HEART & HOME, a novel 2019
All are available in paperback and E-book
Contributing author in the anthologies: Pillow Talk in The Heat of the Night, and The Soul of a Man 2, a writer for the Inner City News, and Real Life Real Faith Magazine, and national newspapers and magazines. Awarded by Flava News, the Unsung Peoples Poet Laureate
(http://alvinhorn.com)
Social networking sites:
www.facebook.com/alvinhorn
https://twitter.com/alvinlahorn
https://www.instagram.com/alah57
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
and to hear Alvin L.A. Horn's spoken word
https://soundcloud.com/alvinhorn
Growing up in the "liberal on the surface" Seattle lifestyle, Alvin experienced seeing Black people with jobs, who could go most places and had no stereotypical ghettos. Inspired by many summer days spent in his local library when his mother placed Alvin "on restriction, often for daydreaming in school." He also credits the "little gray-haired white lady, the librarian," for introducing him to the likes of Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston. Upon reading the work of Nikki Giovanni, Alvin knew he wanted to be a writer of love stories and poetry.
"Some of my erotic writing imagination came from my dad leaving Playboy magazines in a not so secret place. My friends fixated the pictures, but I just read the stories, most of the time." With a storied background,Alvin excelled in an athletic career and as coach. Alvin played sports at the University of New Mexico in the mid70's and had short pro sports career after college. Along with being a musician, actor, and spoken word artist, the knowledge and talent from several experiences show in his writings.
Alvin launched his writing career as he worked in the field of education, teaching life-skills, poetry, and creative writing while working with at-risk kids. Alvin is a highly acclaimed spoken word artist which has allowed him to travel and promote his art of words. Alvin is the 2012 Billboard Awards Winner of Best Male Expressionist of the year of Erotic spoken word. He has balanced his writing career alongside doing voice-overs for radio and TV, music, video, and movie productions, and acting. His writings have appeared in anthologies and many periodicals, ranging from fiction to erotica to social commentary.
Alvin is all over Northwest reciting poetry and playing stand-up bass at different venues. However, he does love Houston, Atlanta, Vegas, Vancouver B.C., and most parts of California and New York. Most of all, he loves being on the back deck of his houseboat, writing love poetry and stories.
Alvin has self-published and published by Simon and Schuster and other publishers.
Works by Alvin L.A. Horn
The World That Fell Into My Dresser Drawer; a book of poetry, 2001
BRUSH STROKES; a novel, 2005
PERFECT CIRCLE; a novel published by Zane and Simon and Schuster, 2012
ONE SAFE PLACE; a novel published by Zane and Simon and Schuster, 2014
BRUSH STROKES; the re-release, with an added short story, 2016
BAD BEFORE GOOD& THOSE IN BETWEEN; a novel 2017
HEART & HOME, a novel 2019
All are available in paperback and E-book
Contributing author in the anthologies: Pillow Talk in The Heat of the Night, and The Soul of a Man 2, a writer for the Inner City News, and Real Life Real Faith Magazine, and national newspapers and magazines. Awarded by Flava News, the Unsung Peoples Poet Laureate
(http://alvinhorn.com)
Social networking sites:
www.facebook.com/alvinhorn
https://twitter.com/alvinlahorn
https://www.instagram.com/alah57
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
and to hear Alvin L.A. Horn's spoken word
https://soundcloud.com/alvinhorn
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