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About Rashid Darden

About Rashid Darden

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Darden crafts a story that will make you laugh, shout, and cry.

MARCUS H.

Rashid Darden paints an exquisite portrait of college life, urban youth and the secrets we all hold from the world.

ROBERT DENSON, III
Sunpiper Press

All of the characters come to life in a way that makes you think you know them personally or have met them somewhere in your life.

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Birth of a Dark Nation

Justin Kena never knew his own strength. He was an average guy stuck working at a mediocre nonprofit in Washington, DC, unsure exactly where his next professional steps would take him. He was awkward, bored, lonely, and bordering on depression. With nothing to lose, he accepts a proposition from his friendly neighborhood corner boy that forever transforms his life.

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Children of Fury

For the children of Pomegranate Place, there is little difference between ordinary terror and extraordinary terror.  Family members become sexual predators. Young mothers disappear into thin air. Stray bullets claim the lives of toddlers, while aimed bullets claim the street’s soldiers and the names of the victims are forgotten to time. Monsters have taken hold of this struggling neighborhood and no one is coming to the rescue.

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Thunder Rolls: A Dark Nation Story

All is never well in the Dark Nation for long.

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Pascal: A Dark Nation Story

He’s only six years old.

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Lazarus

ADRIAN is handsome, brilliant, and devoted to serving others. Under the cool exterior, however, he is tormented and unfulfilled. Abandoned by his father and emotionally distant from his mother, he feels alone – adrift on campus – until he meets SAVION.

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Covenant

ADRIAN is on a mission to heal himself from his emotional wounds. Though he is fresh off the “burning sands” of Beta Chi Phi, he suddenly finds himself alone. He sets himself to the task of reconciling with his parents while forging his own path as a newly “out” man on campus – no easy feat when some fraternity brothers still harbor animosity toward him.

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Epiphany

ISAIAH is head over heels in love with his boyfriend and isn’t afraid to let the world know it. His unwavering love threatens his future as a professional basketball player. Though he is being forced to choose between the love of his life and his career, it appears that he could be making a decision which could irrevocably affect his future.

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Yours in the Bond

Eustace Dailey has a Harvard degree, an artist’s eye, an active social life, and more money than he knows what to do with at his age.  He should feel on top of the world, but instead, he constantly second-guesses his choices–especially when it comes to Jeremy.

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The Life and Death of Savion Cortez

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SAVION CORTEZ is the debut volume of poetry presented by Rashid Darden on the topics of love and loss.  It is a companion to the Potomac University Series.

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Time

TIME collects twenty years of some of the best writing from Rashid Darden, including never-before published poems, favorite blog entries, the award-winning play Message from ‘The Legba’ and the short story “Smith & Jones: Young Americans.”

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Latest diary entries

2020: Year in Review

2020: Year in Review

January 1, 2021

When I was in my late 20s, I learned that people sent out year-end updates about their lives to their friends and family members. Such letters were seen not only as normal, but as polite. College friends of mine were the first people I knew who did this. As for me, an early adopter to […]

My Whereabouts

My Whereabouts

July 12, 2020

I haven’t posted an update to this blog since February!

Don’t Forget to Protect LaDarius

Don’t Forget to Protect LaDarius

February 22, 2020

A few weeks ago, I finished episode six of Cheer on Netflix. It was, quite possibly, the best documentary series I’ve ever seen. Certainly, it’s the best one on Netflix. As I posted on social media over the week-and-a-half that I was watching it, friends posted about Jerry being their favorite, how Jerry was the […]

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