The Stories That Vanish

The Black Cloud Rises novel was born from a question I couldn’t shake:
Why do some histories get remembered while others are intentionally left out?

Some histories don’t disappear.
We erase them.

Not by time or accident, but by design—through systems and stories that decide which voices we remember and which we bury.

We often describe history as a neutral record of the past, but it isn’t. History is curated. We filter what remains. We clean up or remove anything that feels uncomfortable.
Too often, we leave out the people who paid the highest price.

Why I Wrote Black Cloud Rises

There’s a reason we rarely hear about the Black soldiers who fought during Reconstruction, or the Indigenous communities whose lives were pushed aside in the name of “progress.” These stories still exist. They challenge the version of history we prefer to believe.

I wrote the Black Cloud Rises novel to confront what we often ignore.
To dig beneath the official version.
To explore the emotional cost of writing people out of history.

This isn’t just about the past. It continues today—when governments ban books, when leaders label truths “too divisive,” when communities stay silent for the sake of comfort.

But comfort doesn’t equal justice.
And silence doesn’t create peace.

Truth, Fiction, and Reckoning

Fiction allows us to speak into the silence.
Instead of statistics or slogans, it offers human stories—raw, real, flawed, and full of life.
These stories ask us to witness. To remember. To feel.

When we write fiction that refuses to look away, we do more than tell a story—we restore something.
We give back what history tried to erase.

Telling these stories has a cost.
People might say it feels too political, too emotional, too much.
But staying silent costs even more.

As a writer, I don’t smooth the edges.
I tell the truth—especially when it’s hard.

So let’s keep telling the stories they hoped we’d forget.
Let’s remember the names, the lives, the truths that never got their chapter.

Because without them, we’re only living in half a world.
And we were made for more than that.

Coming Soon: Black Cloud Rises

June 25, 2025

A novel about resistance, identity, and what happens when truth refuses to stay buried.