Virtualis

Rosalie A single mother, Rosalie was recently laid-off from her job and needed to find some source of income. Her first love, writing, quickly became a focal point for her and on the advice of her thirteen year old daughter she joined the Artista Network and entered the Poets' Rendezvous. With much hesitation, she posted a poem and waited. What she later found in her inbox was totally unexpected. DeCarlo A professor of Black American Literature at a prestigious university on the eastern seaboard of the United States, DeCarlo had recently lost his only son in a tragic biking accident. DeCarlo buried himself in his work and his research for his new book. He had been advised, by his students no less, to troll the social media, especially Artista Network and get a feel for the many poetry groups and their activities. He signed into the first poetry group he came upon - The Poets' Rendezvous. What he found there would prove to send him off kilter for quite some time.