Afrofuturist Stories

Dystopian future of Metropolis. Transmedia storyline from Janelle Monae's album Metropolis The Chase, Suite 1. My first book ever! Vote/comment/follow. I follow back! Also don't be afraid to give me some feedback! I would love to hear what you're thinking.

A celestial, mystical African American woman born of void Embodiment of flame, clarity, sovereignty, and cosmic order Ethereal beauty: indigo eyes, full lips and hips, long curly hair Bears the Sigil of the Lustral Path-a mark that awakens truth, not power Guided by visions of Xhal'Ethra, the weeping star Her power lies in revealing, not ruling

Brooklyn, after the Rising. The world is permanently broken. Random rift events tear across the five boroughs daily, dimensional beings cross over in unpredictable ways, and each borough has adapted to continuous, unpredictable pressure in its own culturally specific way. Holding the world together is a leyline network and an informational overlay called the Lattice - a cosmologically active substrate with agency, memory, and rules that predate humanity. Amara Adeyemi is a Black comparative mythographer of Yoruba diaspora heritage, inheriting an ancestral Cipher Keeper bloodline. Her power operates through a seven-tier glyph progression system, and every tier costs her a permanent physical scar and a measurable loss of self. She is not alone in what is coming. Multiple antagonist factions operate at different scales against her and the world she belongs to: a hidden interstellar-mystic race called the Annunaki working through a structure called the Convening; sleeping pre-Rising entities operating through unaware human avatars; an interdimensional trafficking network; a class of devourer entities; and an Outer Order with roots in the historical 18th-century Hellfire Club and the wartime Ahnenerbe occult bureau. Veilrend is built as a multi-season franchise across anime, manga, and adjacent media - serialized long-form storytelling with cosmic stakes, intimate cost, and a protagonist whose inheritance was being prepared for her in fragments across generations she never knew were preparing her.

Post-Oblivion America, now a fractured, memory-awakened society rebuilding across echo-zones, resistance hubs, and old-world ruins. The system fell. But the real code was buried deeper than anyone imagined.

The best-kept secret is a quiet life. Not the kind chased through fast lanes and unfinished thrills. But one where silence has space to breathe. There's a kind of beauty in the mundane, like a masterpiece in the corner of a room no one sees. And if we don't pause-if we don't truly look-we miss the universe whispering through ordinary things.

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.

In 2098, in a place called New Africa; a shy native farm boy, who's stammered all his life, must overcome grief, ally with the Orenda - an underworld Institute of rebels disguised as St. Benedict's monastery - embrace the burden to become the Nelson Mandela incarnate, in order to stifle a dubious ethnic cleansing plot known as the godgame; being planned by the beautiful-as-angels yet vile-as-demons Ba'nova ( an imperial race born of gene-editing recklessness).