Stories by @mr95

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.

Love on the Brain

”Bee’s theory was right—forcing a scientist to work with her nemesis triggers explosive results. Like an avenging, purple-haired Jedi bringing balance to the man-splained universe, Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered Marie her dream neuroengineering project, she would accept without hesitation. Duh. But the mother of modern physics never had to co-lead with Levi Ward. Sure, Levi has soul-piercing eyes. And sure, he daughter her in his powerfully corded arms like a romance novel hero when she accidentally damseled in distress on her first day in the lab. But Levi Made his feelings toward Bee clear in grad school—archenemies work best when employed in their own galaxies far, far away. Now her equipment is missing, the staff ignores her, and Bee finds her floundering career in somewhat of a pickle. Perhaps it’s her occipital cortex playing tricks on her but Bee could swear she can see Levi softening into an ally, backing her plays…devouring her with those eyes. And the possibilities have all her neurons firing. But when it comes time to actually make a move and put her heart on the line, there’s only one question that matters: What will Bee Königswasser do?”

The Love Hypothesis

When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman’s carefully calculated theories on love into chaos. As a third-year Ph.D candidate, Olive Smith doesn’t believe in lasting romantic relationships- but her best friend does, and that’s what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks. Scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting biologist, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees. That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor-and well-known ass. Which is why Olive is positively floored when Stanford’s reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. But when a big science conference goes haywire, putting Olive’s career on the Bunsen burner, Adam surprises her again with his unyielding support and even more unyielding…six-pack abs. Suddenly their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion. And Olive discovers that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on loe is putting her own heart under the microscope.”

A Tempest of Tea

Why save the world when you can have tea? On the streets of White Roaring, Arthie Casimir is a criminal mastermind and collector of secrets. Her prestigious tearoom transforms into an illegal bloodhouse by dark, catering to the vampires feared by society. But when her establishment is threatened, Arthie is forced to strike an unlikely deal with an alluring adversary to save it—and she can’t do the job alone.

Petal & Tide

Set on the Amalfi Coast, four childhood friends reunite at a crumbling inherited Italian villa for one golden summer. Old secrets, buried loves, and forgotten dreams resurface as they navigate heartbreak and new beginnings — all against a backdrop of sun-kissed sundresses, salt-tangled long hair, and bare feet on warm stone.