Stories by @mr95

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.

Blood of the Silver Bough

Amara, a Black woman raised by elven scholars after being found as an infant in an enchanted river, is chosen as a political bride for the cold, silver-haired prince of the ruling House Aetherwyn — a man who believes humans have no place at court. As she navigates centuries-old court intrigue and her own mysterious bloodline, their contempt slowly becomes something neither can name.

Northern Roots

Contemporary Oslo. A Black-Norwegian woman raised in a traditional Sámi reindeer-herding family returns from a decade abroad to find her parents have agreed to a match with the estranged son of a rival clan.

Dust and Jasmine

Colonial-era India. A Black-Indian woman adopted by a Rajput noble family navigates a forced marriage to a British-educated prince who returns home ashamed of everything traditional — including her.

La Sangre Que Elegiste

A Black-Mexican man raised in a powerful Oaxacan mezcal dynasty is forced to marry the daughter of a cartel-adjacent family to secure a business merger — except she's running her own exit plan.

The Foreign Moon

Set in 18th-century Joseon. A Black-Korean woman raised in the royal court as a ward of a noble family must marry a disgraced general — sent to the frontier as punishment. She goes with him.

The Weight of Sand

A Black-British man raised by a wealthy Riyadh merchant family is promised in a strategic marriage to the daughter of a business rival — who is secretly in love with someone else entirely.

Ink & Silence

A Black-American woman raised by a traditional Kyoto ink-master family must wed the rival family's heir to settle a century-old feud — a man who despises everything Western she represents.

Frequency

A night-shift radio DJ in 1990s Detroit discovers that her broadcast can reach listeners across time. WDRM 99.1, 2 a.m., 1994. Dee, a plus-size Black woman in her 40s who refuses to slow down, hosts a late-night show from a cramped booth. When a technical glitch makes her signal bleed into other decades, she starts hearing — and guiding — listeners from the past and future. A love letter to Detroit, music, and the power of being heard. 18 original R&B and soul songs.

Somewhere the River Sings

A river deity grants three strangers one night in the city of their deepest wish — but each wish costs something precious. In a magical river city suspended between worlds, the deity Naiade offers three lost souls one transformative night. The musical weaves together their stories — a retired dancer, a grieving widower, and a runaway teen — through 20 original songs blending Afrobeats, Latin jazz and orchestral pop.

The Nine Masks

A forensic anthropologist uncovers nine pre-Columbian masks that are very much alive — and each one wants something back. Dr. Rosa Ixchel Quiñones is called to a Oaxacan dig site where nine ancient Zapotec ritual masks have resurfaced — inexplicably preserved. As she catalogues them, she realises each mask is bound to a living descendant, and that an extraction company is prepared to kill to monetise the find. A race against time through mythology and modernity.

The Cartographers

1760. Five enslaved and free cartographers secretly map a path to freedom across a continent — one night at a time. Set in colonial North America, five people — some enslaved, some free — use their skills in mapmaking, botany, navigation, and code-writing to create a hidden atlas that will guide hundreds to freedom. Each episode covers one season of the year, tracing their growing trust, loss, and impossible courage.