Afrofuturism Stories

When people like him start disappearing quietly, cleanly, efficiently, Kam learns the truth: the city isn't protecting anyone. It's optimizing them out. Kam generates heat. Too much to hide. Too unstable to suppress. To the system that governs the city, he isn't a person. He's a liability waiting to be removed. At first, the heat is a problem. Then Kam learns how to shape it. How to route it. How to survive long enough to understand what's trying to erase him. As the city tightens its controls, Kam is forced to grow stronger, faster, and more precise, turning raw output into deliberate force. If the system wants him cooled, it'll have to survive the overload first. What to expect: Slow-burn progression fantasy in a modern, cyberpunk city Power growth through control, engineering, and system exploitation No stat sheets or blue boxes Technical combat where heat, lag, and failure matter Escalation over arcs, not spikes.

Power was never the problem. Control was. In a fractured, dystopian Nigeria, the elite Uppers rule with iron fists and marble halls, while the Lowers and Rejects survive on scraps-and silence. A government-issued drug called Nullisyn keeps the population obedient, suppressing superhuman abilities before they can awaken. Michael is just another Reject trying to stay invisible. Haunted by a brutal past and bound to a daily dose of lies, he lives for one thing only: keeping his crew alive. But when a single act of defiance exposes the truth behind Nullisyn, everything changes. As dormant powers awaken and the State tightens its grip, Michael and his friends are forced into a rebellion they never planned-against a regime led by Supreme Leader Jide, the architect of the system... and the monster tied to Michael's deepest scars. What begins as survival becomes revolution. From the slums to the shattered gates of Abuja, Rise of the Rejects is a story of power, sacrifice, found family, and the question that could burn a nation to the ground: Can those cast aside by society rise high enough to change it?

Inside a laboratory, a 20-year-old Black young man is the key to the most important scientific discovery of the century. Makala is not just a patient. His body holds an ancestral secret. While science tries to explain the inexplicable, researcher Luiza Moradi discovers dark forces at work to control the power that runs thru Makala's veins. The black body has always been contested territory. Now, it may be humanity's last hope.

OKANRAN: EARTH SCAVENGERS He was born to die young. Igbayilola never asked to carry the world. He was the invisible one the middle son no one trained, no one feared losing, no one chose. While his father poured everything into his elder brother, Igbayilola was left to study, to wait, to disappear quietly into the background of his own family. Then the running started. 153 years after World War Three scorched seventy percent of the earth, humanity didn't go extinct. It evolved into something worse. Nations now sacrifice their strongest men in a brutal blood sport called the Red Sport; Ijakadi Iku, where champions fight to the death so governments can keep their seats at the table of power. It swallowed his father. It swallowed his brother. And now the artifact his bloodline has protected for thirteen centuries older than nations, older than war has chosen the one nobody expected. Not the warrior. Not the genius. The dying boy. Igbayilola has one impossible task: save a world that never saw him coming. And one brutal truth to face first: Maybe the world deserves to burn. They are not the Earth Scavengers. You are.

The past never dies, it lingers in the blood. Two sons rise from the ashes of their fathers' sins. In the war between shadow and sunlight, legacy decides who survives.

What a year it's been, 'troopers. And what a collection of short stories we've got for you this time 'round! Nine brand-new stories from the nine sub-genres we did in 2020, all written by nine of your favourite Tevun-Krus contributors!

Noir Hound is the kind of man you whisper about but never see coming. Clad in a vantablack damask tracksuit and driving a weaponized vintage Duesenberg, he's the owner of elite businesses by day-assassin of dishonor by night. He's not just taking out mafia bosses who broke the old codes; he's rewriting the rules of power, pleasure, and vengeance. With a circle of galactic Black women who move like shadows and strike like lightning, Noir is on a mission deeper than revenge-one steeped in ancient codes, ancestral secrets, and the art of leisure as rebellion. For Noir, killing isn't the job. It's the intermission between cigars, symphonies, and seduction.

PHASE 2: THE KINDLING STORY 1: THE FIRST FORGING The world is running out of soul. When a young woman from the Beastwood discovers an ancient power buried beneath the earth, she becomes something the world was never meant to awaken. Esi is not a warrior. She is not chosen by prophecy. She is the Kindling - a living conduit capable of reigniting the forgotten SoulForge, the source of the world's lost spiritual energy. Guided by Amara, a scout who sees what others cannot, and protected by Chidi, a hardened survivor of a collapsing world, Esi is drawn deeper into a truth the Dominion has spent centuries burying. Samuel, a disgraced scholar marked by a mysterious Hollow Wound, knows what the Forge demands - and what it consumes. Beneath the Beastwood, seven obsidian stones drain lives to feed a dying system. Above ground, empires hunt power they barely understand. Reigniting the SoulForge will not save the world. It will change it. The First Forging is an adult AfroManga / AfroFuturist anime-inspired fantasy about power without permission, survival without heroism, and the cost of awakening something ancient in a world built on silence.

Anele is dying, but that's nothing new. As an Earthwitch with a shattered soul, she's spent most of her life trying not to, but lately, the void eating through her keeps growing. And now, she's caught the attention of something worse than death -- a mad god on the hunt. When a powerful mage dies in the desert, he leaves behind a spirit that burns like a beacon for miles. Pursued and wounded, it may be Anele's only hope of surviving -- if she can get to it first, and fight off every god, beast, and bounty hunter converging on its light.

Five outlaws on the run slam into Mercy-a postcard town with porcelain smiles and shadows that don't add up. Streets too clean, kids that hopscotch in slow motion, a motel that smells like lavender and secrets. What starts as a pit stop turns into a setup, a nightmare dressed in Sunday best. Squally, Shae, Lonnie, Bertina, and Albert think they're hiding out; Mercy thinks they're dinner. Crime, horror, and Black comedy collide-imagine Set It Off lost inside Get Out, with Tarantino banter and Morrison's ghosts whispering in the fog. In Mercy, escape isn't survival-it's sacrifice. #UrbanFiction #BlackComedy #ParanormalThriller #CultHorror #UrbanFantasy

On Akuban, power is not inherited-it is mapped. The Beta Ha, an ancient order of seers, have spent centuries shaping the empire's future, guiding rulers toward the most stable outcomes. But as war looms and fate frays, their visions grow dark and uncertain. Rayor Chassisi was never meant to be more than a nomad. But when an assassination tears through the empire and war spills into his home, he is forced into exile-haunted by voices not his own, visions he cannot explain, and a destiny the Beta Ha whisper he cannot escape. Shai Rucanrian, princess and seer-in-training, has spent her life struggling to control the power that writhes beneath her skin. When her father is murdered and the empire falls into chaos, she becomes a pawn in a brutal game of survival-one where even the Beta Ha cannot see the outcome. Far from Akuban, in the cold corridors of exile, Rama Anemro has spent nineteen years hiding from the empire that slaughtered her family. But when an emissary arrives with an offer of war, Rama must decide if reclaiming her name is worth the price of blood. The Beta Ha have spent lifetimes ensuring balance. But the future is no longer certain, and as war breaks the patterns they've so carefully woven, one question remains: what happens when fate itself begins to unravel?

Ancestral healing Shadow work and spiritual trauma Reclamation of memory and power The cyclical nature of identity and transformation Mentorship and legacy Collective elevation of Black consciousness The sacred bond between inner truth and communal change

Starting with our enslavement in the Americas and the genesis of the African Diaspora. Then Reconstruction, the Black Codes, Jim Crow laws, the Black Freedom Movement, the 1960s up to present-day, Kamal Al Mansour, draws analogies from film and literature that concludes the African Diaspora is not only in a dystopian state but has been in such a state for nearly 500 years. "Divine Consciousness" takes you B(l)ack and forward, B(l)ack to the future, and on a journey to Afrofuturism. This journey, however, requires of you self-realization, self-actualization, and self-determination.

In the worst space-station in the galaxy. A recently widowed man's life is about to be changed by a teenager with an existential question.

In a sunlit, beautiful world where bioluminescent vines thread through neon-etched streets, the Thompson family is about to discover that every spark of creativity carries the power to heal. Angela runs a bustling farmers' market stall with herbal jams that taste like memory and hope. Sixteen-year-old Rosa studies at the Academy of Aurora, designing garments that literally breathe with emotion. Young Shawn hides behind geometry puzzles-until his quiet genius becomes the missing piece in Rosa's dazzling capsule collection. But when a rival plagiarizes Rosa's work and frames Shawn, their world threatens to unravel. From rooftop gardens to holo-lit runways, family rituals to community-woven healing threads, the Thompsons must summon courage, forgiveness, and self-belief to turn betrayal into brilliance.

LUCK-KEY LEGENDS "Pressure Makes Charmors" Before the chaos. Before the cards. There was the LL. Lewna Kismet didn't know what that meant. But she would. Born from fate's fracture, raised on near-misses and second chances, she's always felt like someone-somewhere-was stacking the deck against her. Every win came with a cost. Every loss hit too close. Until she met Lee-awn E. Lastic-a rubberband brawler with bounce and bite-and Ayce Bia'Card, a decked-out dealer with pressure to spare. Together, they cracked open a world locked by luck. But something dark watches the shuffle. Lewna and her allies are hunted by the Gynx-not beasts, but the antithesis to Charmors themselves. Entities of corrupted chance. Broken probability. Bad omens in motion. Worse still, the military organization known as H.A.T.E. wants to scrub fortune from the map entirely. With a Luck-Key burning at her chest and Grandma Ann's warnings echoing in her head, Lewna must play a game older than cards-and hope she doesn't fold first.

For centuries, two magic sects have kept the truth of the nature of reality and its manipulation to themselves. They use magical stones deemed 'holy' to control the natural world and bend reality to their will. They are known as "ashay eggs" due to their ovular shape and are the keys to magical abilities in the world of 'Society of the Destined.' Many generations of mages have fought on opposite ends of this ideological war. Now, an unlikely hero named Kato Hunter will be the catalyst that tips the scales in one direction or the other.

A social-tech thriller. A love story rewritten in code. A woman who vanished but not completely. Dzifa Mundi was Africa's most adored influencer , glamorous, wealthy, and always trending. But behind the filters, she was trapped in a nightmare marriage to Ebo, a brilliant tech CEO with a dark obsession. One night, Dzifa fakes her own death and disappears across borders, erasing her digital footprint and starting a new life from scratch. For a while, she succeeds. Until SyncShot, a viral AI app that scans faces in public photos, begins tagging her in random strangers' feeds. Her past, once carefully deleted, is now being reassembled by the very technology her ex created. Desperate, Dzifa turns to Kungawo, a gifted but tormented South African coder hiding secrets of his own. Together, they must outsmart the algorithm, rewrite facial recognition, and destroy her digital ghost... before it finds her first. Because in a world ruled by AI, escape isn't offline. It's war. ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ 📅 New chapters every Sunday and Wednesday. 📖 Follow to stay updated. The ghost isn't staying buried.

Janelle is a single Black mother doing everything right in a world built to keep her trapped. Two jobs. Stretched bills. A neighborhood laced with addiction, violence, and the shadows of dreams deferred. But when she begins to awaken, really awaken, everything she thought was real begins to fracture. Guided by late-night whispers, spiritual teachings from Neville Goddard and Joe Dispenza, and the haunting presence of a mysterious woman named Zahra, Janelle peels back the layers of her reality. What she discovers? The system is more than financial, it's spiritual. The struggle isn't just economic. It's energetic. The Watchers have been feeding on her pain. The mirrors are portals. And the life she dreamed of was a prison dressed up as peace. As she fights to reclaim her mind, her power, and her children's future, Janelle unearths a truth buried beneath concrete and silence: the land remembers. The ancestors are watching. And the system she thought was real... never was. But awakening comes with a price. And as Janelle breaks the illusion, the Watchers evolve-taking human form, targeting her bloodline, and forcing her to face the ultimate question " What if freedom was never outside of her, but something she had to remember to unlock? This is not just a story. This is a spiritual war.

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