Color Bound

Malik wears red. Darius wears blue. Neither of them could tell you why — only that it started before either was born, and that on this block, in 1985, you inherit a color the way you inherit a name.

One gunshot sends them fleeing into an antique shop they've both walked past their whole lives — down a stairway, through a doorway that shouldn't exist, and into a cotton field where an overseer takes their colors without a second thought. Eleven weeks of picking, weighing, and a family that takes them in anyway becomes a season neither of them chose but both come to love.

When they finally cross the river home, only four seconds will have passed. But four seconds was never really the measure of what this cost.

165 pages · 5.5" x 8.5" · Also available as an instant e-book and a narrated audiobook.

Adapted from Color Bound, free to watch in full.