Published: 'Unseen in the Crowd' — A Novella
My novella Unseen in the Crowd is out today, in Kindle and paperback editions. Last November I wrote here that a story had emerged “as if made for these times, yet hearkening back to times past.” This is that story, finished.
New York, October 2028. Six Wilson has spent three years perfecting the art of being invisible — until a stranger presses a note into his hand on a crowded train: You are in danger. Before New York, Six was William Wilson VI, the last son of a ruined Natchez dynasty, and the man blamed for the murder of the senator’s son he loved in secret. He carries the only surviving proof of the Project — and now the resistance wants him to testify, while the regime wants him erased.
To stay unseen is to survive. To be seen is to resist.
A literary dystopian novella about grief, surveillance, and the cost of visibility — a love story for readers of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Underground Railroad. It is also a departure for me: my first work of speculative fiction, drawing on my professional study of surveillance and institutional power, and on the Greek Revival architecture of Natchez, Mississippi.
