Hello I am Ms. Pantha Jones, a native of Gary, Indiana with two beautiful girls. I hope to pull my readers into every story by your hearts, minds, spirits and souls and vividly paint a picture, that you could easily visualize in your head. I'm here to write about your hustles, your lost, your happiness, your triumphs , your dreams, your nightmares, your hood, your life through sympathy and empathy.
 

GOD surprises me all the time with the unbelieveable talents he has given me. The strenght he has blessed me with amazes me when he pulls me up and through the obstacles I don’t think I can move out of my way.  I’m a ways from where he brought me from but he’s still working on me.

My pseudonym is Ms. Pantha Jones my real  initials L.R.B. No matter what name I use. Being born in Gary, Indiana   will never change. G. I. aka Gangster Island  was unfortunately known for being the Murder Capital.  I felt like surrounded I was surrounded  by death so I embraced reading at a young age and has had a thirst for written words ever since. I escaped in other peoples’ worlds by reading. Unfortunately, the books I was given to read were only temporally distractions.  I decided to write about my realities in poems and short stories in the hopes that it would inform people that the Urban community needed change. Rarely did my poems and stories end in happily ever after. Never the less I felt every story needed a teller.

My world was most definitely not a Walt Disney Classic

    I learned not to let trials and tribulations get the best of me, I chalked it up as learning lessons. But hard times came rapidly and frequently and my only outlets were God, and my paper and pen. In 2001 I felt God gave my pain and struggles a purpose. Writing is like therapy for me. I  hope what I write is therapy or even just reassurance that someone out there is going through something similar to someone else. I also want to assist people in developing their dreams.