Afrofuturism Stories

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.

Zoey is an soft spoken Aziza, but unlike others of her kind, she has a hard time feeding that is until she meets, a mysterious rebellious, Aziza by the name of Estrella

"The key has been lost for centuries. If she doesn't find it, the realms will fall. And so will she." Dee never believed in destiny. She believed in hard work, survival, and fighting for her place in a world that never truly saw her. But when a forgotten keychain begins glowing in her hands, when dreams of a world beyond her own refuse to let her go, she is forced to face a truth buried in blood and time. She is the last of the Guardians. And she is being called home. Pulled into Zora, an ancient city hidden beyond the reaches of modern civilization, Dee discovers a lineage of warriors, priestesses, and lost gods, a people waiting for their savior. The key to restoring balance has been missing for centuries, and the shadows that once swallowed the world are rising again. But time is running out. With Ayọ̀, a warrior sworn to protect her, by her side, Dee must embrace a power she never asked for and retrieve the key before it falls into the wrong hands. Because if she fails-the realms will shatter. And so will she.

The Collective is a new series of short stories focused on a group of witches who were chosen to protect a human and Elven city that overlap each other. And with someone about to make things a whole lot harder, who can each witch trust when they don’t know who the others are?

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.

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.

This steampunk/steamfunk story about a woman who finds herself in a hidden world was listed as one of the top 200 stories of 2013 by locusonline.

A poor waitress joins an intergalactic beauty pageant, after being recruited by a charming fashion designer. With hopes to win the grand prize for her ailing grandparents, she has no idea that her new partner is actually a disowned billionaire looking to earn fashion notoriety and his parent's approval.

In the community of Mabee's Dwelling, set away from majority of the city where they are left to their own autonomy, things are noticeably getting strange. Rubio, a fresh adult that has lived in the eyes of his people starts to get a clear signal that something has changed. Waking up with blonde hair, he is the first to notice "the shift" and everyone else follows, but do they really get it? Set over eight months, Mabee's Dwelling is transformed by brutality, guise, and ignorance. Only a light could save them.

Moja has spent her life trying to disappear - until a single moment ignites a forbidden magic born before the Crystal veiled the Sun and Moon. With Estrella - sharp, beautiful, and hiding secrets of her own - Moja begins to uncover a truth their society was built to conceal. But the deeper they dig, the clearer it becomes: awakening this power has put a target on Moja's back... and something old is already moving toward her.

In Oculus, a new precedent has been set following the inception of fempires (empires led by non-men). As this precedent set in, King Jonathon Vulgari rose to power. Now in his 18th year of terror, his daughter is suited to take a husband. Yet, all Hillary Okoro wants is to know where her mother Winnie is. At the same time, there is a subplot against Elwin Hughston (née Okoro). When he meets Zola, a whirlwind romance brings Elwin closer to his mother's captor. In this action-packed fantasy novel, there will be love, there will be hate, there will be trauma, there will be triumph, there will be chaos, and there will be magic.

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?

A futuristic Afro-Caribbean folktale that serves as a fictional guide for its readers. Rooted in the symbolism of the tarot card "The Fool," this compelling tale unfolds a heartfelt journey that resonates with anyone seeking a path of self-discovery and personal growth. ✨ The Fool tarot card symbolizes new beginnings, uncharted adventures, and embracing each journey with childlike trust, beautifully intertwining with Qio's story. As he stands on the precipice of an uncertain future, Qio grapples with the age-old dilemma of choosing the path less traveled. In a city called Kreiu, steeped in tradition and expectation, he must summon the courage to step into the unknown, trusting his intuition and navigating the mysteries of life that lie ahead. Just like "The Fool," Qio's journey is a dive into the exploration of innocence, intuition, and the transformative power of embracing the uncharted territory of one's destiny.

After The Infinity War, Shuri is Queen. She does not want to be, but in a post-apocalypse full of violent raids, Wakanda needs its protector. She's seek's her ancestor's counsel in the Spirit Realm.

Legends are reborn in blood and betrayal in the shadows of a fractured empire. Neo-Jin was once a beacon of harmony, but the fall of the Syndicate shattered more than power-it ruptured time itself. As whispers of erased histories and fractured realities swirl, a lone warrior, Kenzo, emerges with a blade forged not only in steel but in memory, loss, and fate. Haunted by a past that no longer exists and pursued by enemies who fear what he might remember, Kenzo must unearth the truth about the Crescent Blades, an elite force now scattered and silenced. With Zari, a fierce strategist whose heart still bears the scars of loyalty, Kenzo plunges into a world unraveling at the seams. Every clue uncovered reveals a more profound mystery: time is looping, destinies are rewritten, and he may not be the first version of himself to walk this path. But the deeper they go, the more dangerous the truths become. Can a forgotten warrior reclaim his place in a war against reality itself? Or will the dawn of a new age be written in silence? This is more than a rebellion. This is memory. This is prophecy. This is vengeance with a pulse. The blade remembers-even if you don't.

The year is 2163, and the 700 Isles drift along seas blackened with secrets and scandals and the souls of men too wicked for damnation. A Nation bound by science and pride. A Nation that rose above. Denden is the only reality Zaharah has known since an accident left her and her sister orphaned. With graduation and her art degree within reach, she dreams of making a better life for her family. But when her primary caretaker is killed, her reality is turned on its head, and the people she once called family hunt for her head. She will have to choose between sacrificing herself for a better life for her sister, or challenging powers that be and being forced into a life of running and hiding.

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.

When the sky splits open and chrome leviathans descend, the ancient tribes of Alkebulan face the return of an old terror: the Aurachrome Dominion, pale-skinned invaders descended from the first European conquerors who once ravaged the continent. Armed with advanced spirit-machine technology and led by the ruthless Imperator Cassian Vortigonus, the Dominion seeks to "restore" its ancestral tyranny and reclaim Alkebulan as its rightful empire. Caught between worlds, Prince Hemsef K'Tharu-heir to a kingdom that blends spirit and technology-must unite three rival tribes whose philosophies could not be more different. • The Sembari, guardians of nature who reject all machines. • The K'Tharu, who balance root and circuit as one. • The N'Doro, brilliant technologists blinded by ambition, wealth, and the promises of Aurachrome power. After his father is transformed into a chrome-grafted puppet king and his mother is taken hostage, Hemsef flees with Aza'Leen-his fierce Sembari companion-and a handful of loyal survivors. In the haunted Red Forests, where the land still remembers the screams of the first colonization, Hemsef discovers that history is repeating itself... and this time, the invaders come armed with AI drones, robotic legions, and centuries of perfected domination. As alliances fracture, betrayals ignite, and ancient forests awaken with ancestral wrath, Hemsef must confront the truth: the greatest threat to Alkebulan may not be the invaders, but the tribes willing to sell their souls to them. Epic, poetic, and charged with the weight of history, The Aurachrome Wars is a sweeping Afrofuturist saga about resistance, identity, and the battle to reclaim a continent's future from the ghosts of its past.

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

Born of a dying sun and the silent void, Khama'Nesu is not a warrior of steel-but of sound, soul, and sacred fire. As the Solar Shadow Warden, his music subdues enemies, his poetry unravels minds, and his flame transforms trauma into truth. He doesn't slay his foes-he seduces their shadows, awakens their inner wars, and leaves entire empires trembling from the inside out. But when a rebellion of psychic oracles targets his forbidden Codex of Flame-Laced Frequencies, Khama'Nesu must confront a corrupted solar deity... and unearth the very first chord that birthed the multiverse. Can a man made of prophecy, pain, and paradox survive the war within sound itself?