Buck Wile is Butt Naked in Da City

by Charles W. Harvey

Buck Wile finds himself in jam after jam because of that “Ol’ Eleven.” Can a Black man get any love? Not if he’s Buck Wile. Ladies may hate to love Buck Wile, but can’t help themselves. Brothers will want to create their own Lady Cop fantasy after reading Buck Wile’s “Lady Officer.”

Excerpt:

And I’m going to sue that singer Charlie Wilson too. He’s the one who put the notion in my head about going out to the mall and meeting some chicks. And just like he sung, there she was sitting in the food court sipping lemonade. Well my mama had been riding my butt about me needing a job, so I said, let me kill two birds with one stone and go fill out some job applications and see some fine women too. I had on my nice blue business suit when I introduced myself. She was coy and pretended to be uninterested, but I made sure my eleven was nicely outlined in my pants as I sat down at her table. I told her I was into investments. That’s not a lie. I spend a lot of time in the study of making money. Me and an older chick spent a weekend down at the casino investing her husband’s money. She told him she had gone to Louisiana to attend her aunt’s funeral. Well she did go to the wake. But that’s another story.
So my girl sipped her lemonade. I asked her name. She said, “Celie.”
“What kind of countrified name is that?” I blurted out before thinking.
“So. My mama liked the Color Purple when she was carrying me. If you don’t like my name, you sho ain’t got to call it. It’s plenty other women out here with prettier names looking for some broke busters.”

89 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 29, 2017

About the author

Charles W. Harvey is a native Houstonian and a graduate of the University of Houston. He studied fiction under the guidance of Rosellen Brown and Chitra Divakaruni at U of H. In 1987, Charles was a 1st prize recipient of PEN/Discovery for Cheeseburger, which went on to be published in the Ontario Review. In 1989 Charles Harvey was awarded the Cultural Arts Council of Houston Grant for Writers and Artists. Also in 1989 he was a finalist in the MacDonald's Literary Achievement Awards. Charles has been published in Soulfires, Story Magazine SHADE, High Infidelity, The James White Review, and others. His novel The Road to Astroworld will soon be available on Amazon and other retailers soon. He is the author of the popular When Dogs Bark, Cheeseburger, and Other Stories, Antoine's Double Trouble, and Maura and Her Two Husbands. A collection of his stories can be found in Odd Voices In Love.
His works of poetry can be found on NEWVERSENEWS, Smashwords, Amazon, and Barnes&Noble.