BLACK FLIGHT

Clarksdale, Mississippi. 1932.

For generations, the land was all they knew—dirt roads, cotton rows, and the weight of being born in the wrong skin at the wrong time. But after two years of floods and no yield to show for it, the Thompsons are done waiting on mercy. Chicago calls. Better pay, clean sidewalks, a cousin who made it out.

Everyone is ready to go.

Except Thomas.

He’s kind, loyal, and built like a plow mule—but he don’t trust what he can’t see. The train, the city, the future? Too big. Too fast. Too far. He clings to the familiar, even as it slips from his hands.

Set against the backdrop of the Great Migration, Black Flight is a haunting Southern novella about fear, manhood, and the high cost of standing still.

ISBN: 979-8-9897952-8-4, 126 pages (novella)