Malik Salaam

Malik Salaam

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Raised in Atlanta, GA, Malik Salaam was born and raised Muslim. His teenage years were troubled and he escaped the route of death and penitentiaries that he peers had taken by enlisting in the Navy. His inability to conform got him kicked out. But not before he discovered his talent for writing. Back in Atlanta, Salaam frequented spoken word venues and shared his well-received work on stages across the country. Eventually, he was invited to perform on networks like BET, The Black Family Channel, and HBO. His work was published in newsprint and anthologies. He performed in and co-wrote plays. His documentary, Lost in The Rubble, won film festivals and earned him positions for Congressional panel discussions. Salaam wrote, directed, and produced a feature film, Every Scar and Dimple, and a web series, Eternal. Sunnah is his third self-published body of work. Malik Salaam’s goal is to remembered as a master storyteller.

 

Along The Watchtower

Along The Watchtower

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<p><strong><em>A tragic warrior lost in two worlds... Which one will he choose?</em></strong></p><p>The war in Iraq ended for Freddie when an IED explosion left his mind and body shattered. Once a skilled gamer as well as a capable soldier, he's now a broken warrior, emerging from a medically induced coma to discover he's inhabiting two separate realities.</p><p>The first is his waking world of pain, family trials, and remorse—and slow rehabilitation through the tender care of Becky, his physical therapist. The second is a dark fantasy realm of quests, demons, and magic, which Freddie enters when he sleeps. The lines soon blur for Freddie, not just caught between two worlds, but lost within himself.</p><p>Is he Lieutenant Freddie Williams, a leader of men, a proud officer in the US Army who has suffered such egregious injury and loss? Or is he Frederick, Prince of Stormwind, who must make sense of his horrific visions in order to save his embattled kingdom from the monstrous Horde, his only solace the beautiful gardener, Rebecca, whose gentle words calm the storms in his soul.</p><p>In the conscious world, the severely wounded vet faces a strangely similar and equally perilous mission to that of the prince—a journey along a dark road, haunted by demons of guilt and memory. Can he let patient, loving Becky into his damaged and shuttered heart? It may be his only way back from Hell.</p>

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