Stories by @mr95

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.

The Repair Shop of Almost-Lost Things

A multigenerational family runs a mysterious repair shop in Montréal where broken objects — and broken lives — get fixed. Three generations of the Tran-Okonkwo family share a crowded shop in the Plateau neighbourhood. Grandpa Vinh fixes anything mechanical. Mom Chisom handles the clients — human and otherwise. Teen Lila wants out. But each episode, an object arrives holding a story that changes all of them.

The Harbour Kids

Six misfit kids in a foggy Scottish coastal town solve impossible mysteries tied to an ancient lighthouse. Every summer, strange phenomena plague Dunmore Harbour — fishing boats returning empty, seabirds falling silent, the lighthouse blinking in dead-of-night codes. Six kids form The Tide Crew and uncover a hidden world beneath the harbour floor, season by season peeling back centuries of secrets their town has kept.

Stellarborn Saga

Four teenagers from different continents learn they are star-born warriors — heirs to a cosmic legacy spanning 10,000 years. Film I: The Signal. Four ordinary teens receive a celestial pulse that unlocks dormant abilities. Film II: The Convergence. They unite to battle the Hollowing, an ancient force devouring starlight. Film III: The Return. The final confrontation demands one warrior sacrifice their humanity to save the cosmos.

Beneath the Dust Roads

A deaf girl and a wind spirit cross the Sahara to return a stolen cloud — before the last village runs dry. Nima, 10, has never heard the wind — but she can feel every vibration in the earth. When a trickster storm-god steals the last rain cloud from her village, Nima teams up with Zephir, a young wind spirit who has lost his voice, and together they travel through impossible desert landscapes, speaking in a language of vibrations only they understand.

The Weight of Rain

A 12-year-old girl in present-day Lagos discovers her grandmother's enchanted weaving loom — and the world it stitches together. In a bustling Lagos neighbourhood, introverted Adaeze stumbles upon a centuries-old loom hidden beneath her grandmother's floorboards. Each cloth she weaves brings memories — and mythical creatures — to life. As urban developers threaten to demolish the quarter, Adaeze must unravel the loom's final secret before sunrise.