DEAD MONEY: TEARS OVER HAPPINESS
Shawn L. Bailey’s Dead Money: Tears Over Happiness is a gripping urban drama that delves into themes of betrayal, resilience, and redemption. The narrative, steeped in raw emotion, follows complex characters navigating relationships, personal struggles, and moral dilemmas. With vivid storytelling, Bailey portrays the intersection of love, power, and human frailty in an unpredictable and fast-paced plot. The book stands out for its unflinching honesty and exploration of life’s highs and lows, crafting a world where loyalty is tested, and redemption comes at a cost. A must-read for those who appreciate intense, character-driven stories with powerful emotional depth.
About The Author
Shawn L. Bailey was born in Chicago Il and was raised on the southside at a time where he witnessed crimes, drug addictions, and death on a normal basis. Even though some of these stories that you read may be fictional to you, they were actually a normal reality to Shawn L. Bailey growing up in the streets of Chicago. Shawn almost lost his life at the age of 6 years old; he was trapped in an apartment fire on 79th troop on the southside but God had a much bigger plan for him. Shawn later moved to Phoenix, Az and at the age of 12 was left to grow up in the streets which turned him into a Legendary Gentlemen of Leisure throughout his lifetime.
God later called him to minister his word. He was ordained October 3rd, 2019, where he was blessed with the gift to minister the Word of God but also was gifted with the talent to leave his mark in the Urban Book Industry world for times to come. He has been a blessing to men and women worldwide. Some people say he has a unique way to change people’s lives, others have called him a prophet, but after surviving in the jungle God has left him with the gift to draw others closer to him but he also has left him with a gift to leave you turning pages in his books making you feel like you’re a part of the story while at the same time teaching you how to better solve solutions to life problems. Welcome to the Roll’z Roy$$ of $tory Telling—Let’s Ride!
BIG AND LITTLE SATAN
Supreme grew up in the Phoenix streets as a child without having any parents or family members, that he could find any family resemblance to. Supreme found himself coming and going in and out of many foster homes. The foster system tried to place him in a suitable home but after Supreme’s 13th replacement home, he finally got the breakthrough that he was looking for. After getting caught having sex with his foster sister; Impression, Supreme got kicked out of the foster home. Now he has to become a man on his own in the grimy, dirty, desert streets. Him and Marquan, a childhood friend, broke into Mr. Swanson’s family home, which was his last foster family that he lived with. They stole what they thought they would need to never look back on the phoenix streets. Supreme and Marquan didn’t know it, but their childhood friendship was about to take a detrimental turn into them becoming each other’s worse enemy. Who would have ever known that they were about to pay for a childhood debt for the rest of their lives? Who will take the evil road to exit their grave?
DEAD MONEY
Today was supposed to be a day to wake up in the Christmas spirit and that’s just what DuVall and Izzi done. The adult moment that they spent had Izzi in a mood to go shopping and prepare their first Christmas meal together. They normally traveled and spent Christmas with both of their parents, but they wanted to spend Christmas without the Christmas weather. So, staying home in Scottsdale, Arizona would be just perfect. Plus, DuVall has his own Law Firm there and life was great. But sometimes the gifts that arrive aren’t always from Santa Clause. They can change your life for the rest of your life, which caused Izzi to learn the true meaning of friendship.
Her five childhood friends will take you on a worldwide experience that will leave you in laughter, tears, and trusting no one. Fuzzie, her transsexual friend protects, teaches, and helps raise her five other friends Kahi’Lee, Emma, Izzi, La’Bella and Ashley changing their lives and maybe even yours. Trust me, you’ll never experience friendship or Christmas like this in a lifetime. The Roll’z Roy$$ of $tory Telling can’t stop and won’t stop
BIG AND LITTLE SATAN 2
Marquan served 12 years and 7 months in an Arizona State Prison, which he was expected to return back to a lifestyle that caused heartache and pain to his mother. His childhood friend Supreme was supposed to hold things down until Marquan return back to the dirty desert streets. But when Marquan exited those prison gates, the life that he thought was pure hell wasn’t nothing compared to the blood, sweat, and tears that was about to come with the new meaning of hustle and getting paid.
Marquan is forced into a hitman lifestyle, which causes him to lose everything that he stood for. His love and respect for Supreme turned into an enormous body count after death spills over into his own life. Supreme and Marquan must come together to reclaim their own life, but the cemetery holds a plot with an unexpected name. Supreme and Marquan have their own seeds now, which means that the both of them are fighting to see who will take the evil road to exit their grave.
CRY BABY BITCH
If there was a such person born with no heart, then that person would be Alize. Everything or anybody that comes into her life, she finds a way to hurt or destroy. At the age of nine she was already seeing a psychologist, for stabbing her Christmas gift from her grandmother, which was a baby kitten for not coming when she called it. Alize took her grandmother’s crochet needles and stabbed the kitten twenty-two times then left it to cook in her easy bake oven.
At the age of 16, she stabbed her first boyfriend with a butcher knife three times for commenting on her best friend’s breast, which she served 18 months in a juvenile facility. She married at the age of twenty-four to Doctor Craig McCannon who was a rich plastic surgeon. After being married for one year, they became swingers. After seeing their third couple, Alize met a man that would introduce her to six women with minds and unconscious hearts worser then hers. If there is a dark world to enter, then this book will leave your heart pounding and wondering. Sometimes it takes more than DNA to learn your own genetics. When was the last time you saw or heard your baby cry?
BADUSSY AIN'T PINK
BUT YOU'LL DIE FOR IT
In life we all have witnessed and experienced cruelty in some way or fashion. But waking up today Breonca and her best friend Mya is about to experience cruelty on a level beyond one’s imagination. Sometimes it’s better to stay asleep, experiencing a bad dream, than to wake up living one that becomes a reality.
Leaving yourself to wonder, when and if someone is coming to save you? Maybe today you’ll be taken to a place where you can’t be found or saved. Breonca and Mya are left to live a life that no human mind could ever understand.
A Chinese Billionaire mobster who hates Americans, teaches Breonca and Mya that it’s a doggy dog world and the only way to stay alive is to be the better breed to the finishing end. This breath-taking story will leave you watching your back and never wanting to be left alone with man’s best friend. Arrrrrrr!!!
BIG AND LITTLE SATAN
Supreme grew up in the Phoenix streets as a child without having any parents or family members, that he could find any family resemblance to. Supreme found himself coming and going in and out of many foster homes. The foster system tried to place him in a suitable home but after Supreme’s 13th replacement home, he finally got the breakthrough that he was looking for. After getting caught having sex with his foster sister; Impression, Supreme got kicked out of the foster home. Now he has to become a man on his own in the grimy, dirty, desert streets. Him and Marquan, a childhood friend, broke into Mr. Swanson’s family home, which was his last foster family that he lived with. They stole what they thought they would need to never look back on the phoenix streets. Supreme and Marquan didn’t know it, but their childhood friendship was about to take a detrimental turn into them becoming each other’s worse enemy. Who would have ever known that they were about to pay for a childhood debt for the rest of their lives? Who will take the evil road to exit their grave?
BIG AND LITTLE SATAN 2
Marquan served 12 years and 7 months in an Arizona State Prison, which he was expected to return back to a lifestyle that caused heartache and pain to his mother. His childhood friend Supreme was supposed to hold things down until Marquan return back to the dirty desert streets. But when Marquan exited those prison gates, the life that he thought was pure hell wasn’t nothing compared to the blood, sweat, and tears that was about to come with the new meaning of hustle and getting paid.
Marquan is forced into a hitman lifestyle, which causes him to lose everything that he stood for. His love and respect for Supreme turned into an enormous body count after death spills over into his own life. Supreme and Marquan must come together to reclaim their own life, but the cemetery holds a plot with an unexpected name. Supreme and Marquan have their own seeds now, which means that the both of them are fighting to see who will take the evil road to exit their grave.
DEAD MONEY
Today was supposed to be a day to wake up in the Christmas spirit and that’s just what DuVall and Izzi done. The adult moment that they spent had Izzi in a mood to go shopping and prepare their first Christmas meal together. They normally traveled and spent Christmas with both of their parents, but they wanted to spend Christmas without the Christmas weather. So, staying home in Scottsdale, Arizona would be just perfect. Plus, DuVall has his own Law Firm there and life was great. But sometimes the gifts that arrive aren’t always from Santa Clause. They can change your life for the rest of your life, which caused Izzi to learn the true meaning of friendship.
Her five childhood friends will take you on a worldwide experience that will leave you in laughter, tears, and trusting no one. Fuzzie, her transsexual friend protects, teaches, and helps raise her five other friends Kahi’Lee, Emma, Izzi, La’Bella and Ashley changing their lives and maybe even yours. Trust me, you’ll never experience friendship or Christmas like this in a lifetime. The Roll’z Roy$$ of $tory Telling can’t stop and won’t stop
BIG AND LITTLE SATAN 3
Supreme and Marquan destroyed the name and character of the man that put them through so much pain and hell. Papa Jack escapes getting away from facing murder on his wife that he did not do. To only return back to civilization to destroy in a way that will leave your heart pounding and tears rolling down your face. But this time it turns out that Papa Jack wasn’t the only one out for revenge. He and his wife also have a debt to pay, just like Supreme and Marquan and so many others.
Maybe Papa Jack isn’t the only one to have a mind of manipulation and terror. Papa Jack and his own horrible shadow comes back with a vengeance, that will leave Supreme, Marquan, and maybe even you afraid to see what’s about to happen next and to Who?
CRIMARELLA
BOSS BITCH
Over the years, the Urban World has encountered many drastic experiences. But yet have found a way to overcome their dramatic experiences. Some were mainly slavery, Birmingham Riot of 1963, losing M.L.K, The Watts Riots, The C.R.K era, and who could forget 911? We had Hurricane Katrina, The Recession, President Obama turning the White House over to Trump, Loosing the King’s of Pops; Michael Jackson and Prince, George Floyd and facing the Corona Virus pandemic.
Well even after all that, Presidential who grew up as Michael Wiley on the South Side of Chicago was swallowed up into the cold streets of Chicago, into a lifestyle that would make him become one of the youngest, richest men in the P game in the world. But only with a price tag that maybe even some of the most attractive and beautiful women couldn’t afford to pay. Curiosity changed Presidential’s life and so many others close to him. Now he’s trapped between two of the most important people in his life. But now his curiosity wants to claim them all. Sometimes you never can say goodbye.
CRY BABY BITCH
If there was a such person born with no heart, then that person would be Alize. Everything or anybody that comes into her life, she finds a way to hurt or destroy. At the age of nine she was already seeing a psychologist, for stabbing her Christmas gift from her grandmother, which was a baby kitten for not coming when she called it. Alize took her grandmother’s crochet needles and stabbed the kitten twenty-two times then left it to cook in her easy bake oven.
At the age of 16, she stabbed her first boyfriend with a butcher knife three times for commenting on her best friend’s breast, which she served 18 months in a juvenile facility. She married at the age of twenty-four to Doctor Craig McCannon who was a rich plastic surgeon. After being married for one year, they became swingers. After seeing their third couple, Alize met a man that would introduce her to six women with minds and unconscious hearts worser then hers. If there is a dark world to enter, then this book will leave your heart pounding and wondering. Sometimes it takes more than DNA to learn your own genetics. When was the last time you saw or heard your baby cry?
I OWE YOU ONE
FAT BOY!!!
When born, we all know that at birth, that’s a time when we all have to separate from that one parent that might wind up sticking with us through life. Gary Crayton A.K.A, Gypper, but also known as Fat Boy in the streets, couldn’t wait to separate from his drug addicted mother Sylvia and the Cook County Hospital where doctors and nurses were sticking Gypper with needles daily. Trying to help him overcome all the drugs that were put into his system for the last eight months and two weeks before he was born. Unfortunately, 12 years later, Fat Boy’s mother was still getting high. Only these days, she was getting her fix from her own son, Fat Boy. If Satan would have impregnated Eve himself, and not just offered her the Unforbidden fruit, then Fat Boy would be their child. So, every time you come in contact with Fat Boy, you’re definitely making a deal with the devil. Sometimes accepting help don’t always turn out to be the hand that feeds you. All money is good money, every store will accept it, but all food isn’t good to eat. Especially if the Baker girls prepared it. Money do come in, but a lot of blood comes out.
INCEST HOE DOE NO DOE
Warning!!! If you don’t have the mentality to understand street life or have the stomach for the hunger and pain that comes from it, then it’s best advised that you close this book now. Addiction means just what it says, a person who is addicted. There are addictions in life that are more powerful than the thirst for alcohol and drugs. It’s called sex, money, pimping and prostitution. Also, just like every lifestyle it has its morals, that every pimp and prostitute must uphold in the game to obtain their respect, trust and loyalty in this fine game of Gentlemen of Leisure.
No Doubt is a general in the game and like they say it takes 9 months to enter this world, and one mistake takes a second to leave it. But when your name carries the weight of this world; someone, maybe everyone, must die. Last warning, it has been said that this game is so powerful that if you’re not careful by the time you try to walk away you could have already lost your mind. If you weren’t cut out for this game, you might perhaps even wind up in a mental facility. You know everything in life closes at one time or another: stores, schools, even banks. But there are two things in life that you’ll never find closed; that’s hospitals and a woman’s legs. It’s always an emergency to enter. This is the game of cop and blow. Where would you go, where the snow won’t blow. Whose hands are in your wallet?
PAIN IN THE ASS
Whoever said that time doesn’t stop must not have received the phone call that Pam has just received to learn that she has just lost the love of her life. Her husband Dale and his brother’s wife seemed to forget who they said I Do to at the altar. The lie that was told to the police about Dale left Pam in so much pain that it was too unbearable to live with, so it caused Pam to take her own life. That pain now also lives within their three beautiful daughters: Sincere, Precious, and daddy’s favorite girl Hope lives. Their grandmother Megan was left to make a life changing decision to give up alcohol, drugs, and different men every night, to become a grandmother that her granddaughters could respect to raise them like responsible women. They all grew up to make great career choices in life. But even being so well respected in their community, they still managed to find the worst men to hold onto in life, because sex, violence, drug money, lying tongues, and murder still always finds its way into the most innocent places. Sincere, Precious, and Hope learned the hard way that crime doesn’t always pay. That when men like Lavelle The Great come up short then bodies and valuable things come up missing. Boom!
THE END GAME
Over 100 years of living, women have lived in the shadows of men, being their girlfriends, wives, mistresses, and secretaries. Men and women have been at odds over jobs, positions and wages. Women have received less pay or denied jobs because of the power of men. Even James Brown has proudly sung that This is a man’s world. We have had 46 Presidents of the United States and still no woman has held that position in life. Sure, we have a Vice President, but that’s still in the shadow of men.
Well, there’s 16 beautiful, smart, and attractive ladies ready to change the name of the game. But playing by the men rules with strategy, manipulation, lies, drugs and sex. Also, if the job calls for it, escorting you to your cemetery plot. Remember, it’s a woman who carried you nine months then suffered hours and minutes of pain to give you life. What’s better than the same smell of pussy on you. The same way you slid into this world, is the same way these ladies are ready to slide you out. Who said that it’s a man’s world. This is the end game. Crown Me.
AMBER
Lanay Walker was a honor roll student, chasing her mother’s dream of becoming the family’s next Lawyer. Lanay was the baby of six siblings’ four boys and two girls. Her oldest sister La’Dareia Walker graduated from Spellman College and went on to become a Criminal Lawyer, which made their mother, Ernestine become a living hell for Lanay. After hearing all the most cruel words that any human being could be called to degrade you as a person, Laney found comfort in a high school friend name Phoenix, who has an uncle that stay in full pursuit of a prostitute.
Magnificent keeps a stable of gorgeous ladies of the night. He drives a custom Rolls Royce and stay dressing in all the latest fashion, On sight he was a paroxysmal excitement to Lanay’s eyes and gave her attention like no other in her life. Lanay went from honor roll to honorable pleasure for many men.
After being kidnapped and whining up on America’s Most Wantd, her big sister La’Dereia goes from protecting criminals to becoming Amber, whch was Lanay’s street name to revenge her sister’s death. But only she didn’t have no idea that money, sex, and Magnificent was so addictive. ( Damn! )
TO THE REAL ROLL’Z ROY$$ FAMILY
SHOW YOUR LOYALTY BY GETTING YOUR TATTOO
The Roll’z Roy$$ family is quickly growing, and the Author is honored by the love and support of his growing family members. The Author has given the Roll’z Roy$$ family the opportunity to stay connected and be apart of something global. We ask that you go out and get your Tattoo work showing your loyalty to the Roll’z Roy$$ family. The Author would love to see the pictures of your creativity in where you place your loyalty to the family. You can submit your photo to this website and your photos will appear in upcoming books, T-shirts and on the website throughout our journey. I want to stay in contact with each and every one of you, praying for you, your family and the Roll’z Roy$$ family. A family that prays together support each other and stay together. I’d also love to share ideas and support you too on your future prosperity. God bless each and every one of you and I promise to keep delivering stories in only the way The Roll’z Roy$$ Of $tory Telling can. Let’s grow as a family and be blessed in the mighty name of Jesus. I Love each and everyone of you. Pastor Shawn L. Bailey; The Roll’z Roy$$ Of $tory Telling
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