Stories by @mr95

Due Cuori, Una Famiglia

Siblings Amara and Kofi Lombardi — adopted from Accra into a boisterous Florentine restaurant clan — navigate two simultaneous, hilariously ill-timed love stories while their extended family makes absolutely everything everyone's business.

Ereditare il Cielo

Zara Conti — born in Lagos, raised in a Milanese fashion dynasty — must choose between an arranged alliance with a rival house and the man who actually sees her. Season-long exploration of identity, design, and desire in contemporary Milan.

THE SEED AND THE SOIL: The Dreamer in Exile

Moving from the dusty tents of Canaan to the polished, stark stone geometry of Egyptian palaces. It details Joseph's rise through the prison system, his economic rescue of Egypt during a global famine, and the high-stakes psychological game of cat-and-mouse he plays when his unsuspecting brothers show up begging for bread.

THE SEED AND THE SOIL: The Stolen Birthright

This season plays out like a corporate succession battle in the ancient world. It tracks the famous identity theft of the birthright, Jacob's grueling exile under Laban, and his terrifying late-night transformation into Israel on the banks of the Jabbok River.

THE SEED AND THE SOIL: The Wanderer

THE SEED AND THE SOIL: The Primeval Prologue

The tragedy of Eden leads into the lawless bronze-age violence of the pre-flood world, culminating in the claustrophobic survival story of the Ark and the ultimate scattering of humanity at Babel.

Someone Like You

Halley and Scarlett have been best friends for years, sharing secrets, clothes, and crushes. People know Scarlett as the popular, flamboyant one; Halley’s just her quiet sidekick. Then, at the beginning of their junior year, the balance shifts. First, Scarlett’s boyfriend Michael is killed in a freak accident; soon afterward, she learns that she is carrying his baby. For the first time, Scarlett really needs Halley. Their friendship may bend under the weight, but it’ll never break–because a true friendship is a promise you keep forever.

That Summer

For fifteen-year-old Haven, there's just too much going on. First, there's her father's wedding to Lorna Queen, the local television "Weather Pet." Then, her sister Ashley's wedding to boring Lewis Warsher, who doesn't seem to suit Ashley at all. And Haven can't ignore the fact that she's nearly six feet tall and still growing. Haven can barely figure out who she is anymore, or where she fits in. Then Ashley's old boyfriend, Sumner Lee, shows up and sparks Haven's memories of the summer when her parents were happy, her sister was plucky and carefree, and everything was perfect...or so it seemed.

Kök

Kofi and Aylin face off across a courtroom before finding themselves on the same side of a conspiracy — falling in love as the case threatens to upend both their lives and expose his father.

Ayna

Zara and Tarık clash on a heritage renovation project in Balat before their rivalry melts into forbidden attraction — complicated by Cem's threat to disinherit her if she chooses love over the family firm.

DEEP BLUE: Kingdom Below

Twins born to a coastal Ghanaian family discover their bloodline carries the power of an ancient ocean kingdom — and that the sea is demanding they come home to prevent a war between the surface and the deep.

THE RECKONING

After the U.S. government outs a secret registry of Black superhumans born since 1985, five strangers — each powerful, each targeted — must decide whether to fight, hide, or burn the system down.

NOVA STATION

Aboard a deep-space research station, a crew of Black scientists and soldiers discover they were selected not for their skills but for the dormant cosmic powers embedded in their DNA — powers an alien intelligence is now trying to activate.

IRONROOT

In an alternate West Africa where the earth itself chose champions at birth, a young king discovers that the roots of power running under his kingdom connect to every nation on the continent — and that someone is trying to sever them.

ECLIPSE: City of Storms

In the rain-soaked megacity of New Carthage, a detective born with electromagnetic control investigates superhuman crimes while hiding the very power she's sworn to police — until a conspiracy forces her out of the shadows.

The Unlit Crown

Twins Seren and Osei — a Black woman and man raised separately by rival shadow courts after being found abandoned on the war-border at birth — are unknowingly used in the same political gambit: married off to the heirs of their respective enemy courts to forge a false peace. When the twins discover each other, and discover the truth of their origins, the marriages they are each fighting to escape become the only thing keeping their birth-world from being erased entirely.

A Bride of Sundered Stars

Zola, a Black woman adopted as an infant by the empire's most prestigious star-reading family after she fell, literally, from a rift in the sky, is selected by the ancient celestial algorithm as the destined bride of the empire's first prince — a man bound by so much ritual law he has never once done something purely for himself. Learning to love within a cage they are both trapped in is the only rebellion left to them.

Thornbound

Kael, a Black man raised by the iron fae's lowest servant class after being left at the court gate as an infant, rises to become the realm's most feared war-mage — only to be magically bound to Lady Seris, the cold-hearted fae noblewoman who exposed his "forbidden" human magic. The binding is a punishment. It becomes something else entirely.

The Tide-Sworn Queen

Isadora, a Black woman raised by a Pelagian noble house after washing ashore as a swaddled infant during the Great Tidal Storm, is betrothed to the young king of the rival sea throne — a quiet, studious man utterly unprepared to rule. She was raised to be his queen-advisor. She was not told she was also raised to be his political shield, expendable the moment the alliance shifts.

Ember Without a Name

Devion, a Black man raised by the Ember Clan's war-chief after being discovered wrapped in fireproof cloth on the mountain pass, is forced into a blood-oath marriage with the fierce daughter of the rival Ironscale Clan to end a generations-long war. Both feel cheated. Both are hiding something about the night their clans first clashed.