Books by Cash Onadele

THE CHICAGO MUTE BRIEFWhen we meet a person, what do we see? Do we see their character or color of skin? When we are told someone was reported for an offence, do we hear that they are guilty or not guilty? What we see and what we hear are tested when two attorneys, formerly dating lovers, were asked to examine the truth in this Chicago Mute Brief.Jude Lawrence Fishbone was a private attorney of African American origin who had dated, for five years until this case, a successful Prosecution Attorney in the District Attorney's office, Deputy District Attorney Lauren Martinez, herself of Latina Mexican-American extraction.There is a case of murder to be tried before, no other than, Justice John Thomas Marshall, a fifth-generation descent of the fourth Chief Justice of USA. He prided himself as a man of blind justice and a beacon of freedom in a world troubled by shadows.The accused is a deaf and dumb, white, blonde woman. The victim was a, twice commended, ranking officer of the Chicago Police Department. This incident occurred in November 2016. Is this deaf and dumb white woman caught with the murder weapon and accused of murder in the first degree guilty or not guilty?We must be crystal clear! This case will test our conscience, truths, beliefs, hearts and subconscious bias or prejudices.You are welcome to Chicago. It is windy, cold, temperamental and often unpredictable. Does the weather speak for the people or the people for every weather?

THE CRYSTAL OF PROPHECYWhen you meet the person, who becomes your spouse because your train was late that day, this is a serendipitous event. But that was neither the case for the Engineer, Al Afonja, nor his spouse-to-be.There was a prophecy spoken by three mystic women about Al's union, a future which must come to pass.In the labyrinth of romances and existential passions, Al formed, normed, performed and transformed. Now, who does Al choose or who chooses Al?After all, you cannot have them all. You win some and you lose some. That, until now, appears to be the story of humanity. Could there be a reason for anyone to think twice about this truism?From another plane or context, could he look at love differently?He must be crystal clear!

INSIDE COVER: BLOOD RIBBONED COVENANTPhilosophically, ribbons are long or narrow strips which stretch the length of our time on earth. Often, these threads mark beginnings or ends in our relationships. The beginnings are fashioned by the promises we make and the ends on how we fulfill them.Some start relationships amid laughter and others with tears. Yet, each draws a line between one's self-centered past and the giving of one's self, in hope that light shines through our flesh and bones elegantly. Even if, later, we face flutters and flickers in our destinies.During life, our faces are alive with promises richly sustained by returned promises of others. This is the birthplace of our covenants.Such was a covenant forged by James Harold "Rudy" Blanco and Anne Maria Shephard. A naïve bond of love which was severely tested.Theirs were ties appearing to endure a lifetime, no matter how flailed in the fire of fate. Somewhere along the line, fate forced upon Anne Maria a decision to marry the ambitious attorney who later emerged the Mayor of New York.James could have walked away and pretended to forget Maria, but he did not.In a big metropolitan city such as New York, powers lurk behind all misdeeds, mayhem, and murders. Two, career minded, warring women played a great part in this!James was a knife thrower who fitted the profile of a murderer. The powers that be promised to deliver swift justice on the accused until Hercules offered to save his tarot-gypsy-mother from crying over her son's innocent and lifeless grave.Hercules Johnson, himself, was a disgraced protagonist with problems of his own. Does he stand a chance against the trusted, four-term Mayor or those powerful people financing his campaigns?What happens to the love of two lives and everyone connected to them? What if we added powerplays by two competing visceral women?We know, where there are covenants, there are blood sacrifices!Would their pains pass in the end? Would there be a better future for Rudy and Maria if they hold on to love or power and did not cut the ribbon?Let us trace the vicious splatter and viscous threads in Blood Ribboned Covenant!

CLIMBING CRAGGY ROCKSImagine how you would feel if you are a stranger in a new country, far away from, who, what, and where, you've ever known or been. This is situation, Al Afonja found himself at 29, a foreign student in London, England, trying very hard to figure out his future, people around him, and his career.Maybe the wheel of life is a time chain of events and emotions furtive with affections, hates, guilts, beliefs, and indifferences. Unfortunately, over the next decade, he will learn that old truths remain relevant in love and prophesies are mysteriously intricate ingredients of destiny. If only he knew...

INSIDE: IMPERFECT STRANGERSFIDDLE ON SKELETONS OF THE MIND.No matter where you come from, surely as you are human with blood flowing through your heart, you are booked on this journey. Just remember there are no seat belts, life jackets or waist ropes to stop you going overboard.Dr. Mary Jo, a general physician in London, was introduced to Al, a confident, handsome, University of Nottingham doctoral researcher working on ground-breaking pneumatic prototypes. Where this would lead them both, they do not know. Al's challenge to breakthrough a work barrier may not be the only mountain he is facing. His wavering mind may be the object in the locket of another woman. There is also a prophecy which must be fulfilled.Are they equally trying to save his lost heart in some stranger ways!In this volume of the short stories, there is a fiddle on the skeletons of the mind. Shall we let it play?

WILD SPARKLING BLUE MARBLEIn relationships, a man's appetite is multitudinous and complex. Each comes from an opportunity he is presented by different women and the ideals he sets for himself. Al was a doctoral fellow in pneumatic engineering on the cusp of an industrial breakthrough prototypes that are nearly, but not quite, there. He nursed hope for a seemingly unavailable nurse neighbor. Received physical treatment from another woman physician. His prototypes were funded by yet another, but at this point, he is in love with a woman he called Blue Marble. He described her attributes as beautiful, brainy, brassy, bold and busty. Would he be able to love his sparkling Blue Marble without interruption of these other women?Something must give. What gives?

Snaggles & Giggles is an oxymoron. How come we have two opposites in this effect? Snaggles are tangled mess, knotted yarn threads, painful to trace. While giggles are comedy, drama and satire bundled together to relax and make laughter. Aiyeko-ooto picked this contradiction because that is what the Nobel laureate inspires. This anthology is dedicated to Professor Toni Morrison. In particular, Aiyeko-ooto examines answers to five human questions.First, what we evolve within- inner thoughts?Second, what stirs our brews - struggles and battles?Third, what we evolve without, - our natural environment?Fourth, what we embrace -laughter and errors?Finally, what we hold dearly -love and passion?These answers are found in five moods, in this collection of 50 poems. I hope you enjoy reading them in this anthology.

SHAFTS OF ARROWS PIERCE WITS.Cash Onadele "Aiyeko-ooto" has mastered the art of fictional drama. It shows in the characters and tales of the Yoruba ancient cultures and traditions depicted in this trilogy.In "Blood and Arrows of Wits" part 1: he pulled on every human emotion to captivate our thoughts. This imaginative story telling left no stones unturned. Weaving the ways of mortals and the acts of gods to make magical, yet, believable!In this part 2: Shafts of Arrows Pierce Wits: again, we are translocated back to the deep jungles of forests of sub-sahara, Africa. Where the characters bring to life ordinary ways of men living centuries ago. What keeps their lives turning up as strange super ordinary events?There was hate, discord, ambition, greed and love. No more than we see in present day. However, if their powerful gods and goddesses weren't mixed in their mortal affairs, ghosts were.If you think politics and social change are modern sciences, you are in for a surprise of their practiced arts almost perfected in the struggle for reign.This combined with their sense of traditional governance and values become necessary tools to defend against attacks of foreign colonists under clouds of transforming culture.Even today, as long as there are rulers and the ruled, agitators of a few disgruntled natives have a crack to peddle the bought influence of foreign imperialists.We shall meet again in final part of this fictional drama trilogy!

ARROWHEAD MARK SPOTS OF WITS: TAKING ON THE DRAGON.It is one thing to prepare for war. It is a different experience to fight the war. This we shall find out in this concluding story of freedom.It might have appeared that you were reading through a plot of thrones, but this concluding part exposes the true reason we had to follow the throne.The story is not only about the game people play or their questionable attitudes or even wars fought. It might at times even appear to be about the frailties of Yoruba culture and beliefs. It could also ask, why not to trust another person? This story traces roots and generations to present the proof of failure to respect sovereignties while the invaders fight under a banner.I would like it to answers the question, "why do you need what belongs to someone else, if you don't wish somebody to take away what you have?"I hope that I have done so with wits, entertainment and accented it with a nice plot.If you've read "Blood and Arrows of Wits", "Shafts of Arrows Pierce Wits", "Arrowheads Mark Spots of Wits: Making of a King" Then follow me to "Arrowheads Mark Spots of Wits: Taking on the Dragon."Find out what ends the final part of this trilogy.

This collection of poems has waited four centuries to be composed. Aiyeko-ooto unveils open secrets of the races. Many issues buried in the tombs have been unearthed. This makes everyone uncomfortable but with nascent pandemic, it has come to be dealt with! It is fated in evils and ills committed by transgressors, who put ships on open seas to discover peaceful natives on the other side of the Atlantic. Their exchange started friendly and commercial as batter before it graduated into speedy conquests. Impositions to sell natives into bondages on the return ships to West Europe and onwards to Americas' plantations. Humans became chattels and were sold on auction blocks. Trusts were betrayed, agreements broken, and sovereignty scattered. Aiyeko-ooto in 50 poems explore 5 moods: Pains, Fears, Uncertainty Turmoil, and Tragedy. It is time to sail across centuries of black pain, hardship and injustices.