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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.
162 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.
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Four ways to read it.
EPUB
E-book
The full novel-length expansion of Strange Fruit Episode 9. Delivered instantly as an EPUB, readable on any e-reader, phone, or tablet.
$6.99
Paperback
Paperback
The full novel-length expansion of Strange Fruit Episode 9, printed and shipped to your door — free U.S. shipping included. 5.5" x 8.5" trade paperback.
$26.99
Printed on demand, just for you — arrives in about 10 business days.
Hardcover
Hardcover
The full novel-length expansion of Strange Fruit Episode 9, in a durable case-wrap hardcover — free U.S. shipping included. Same 5.5" x 8.5" trim as the paperback.
$35.99
Printed on demand, just for you — arrives in about 10 business days.
Audiobook
Audiobook
3 hours 50 minutes of narration, the full unabridged novel of Strange Fruit Episode 9, read in the Strange Fruit narrator's voice. Delivered as a single chaptered M4B — 44 chapters with real markers, so any player resumes where you left off.
$16.99
Free preview
Hear it before you buy it.
The full audiobook runs 3 hours 50 minutes and is available above. This preview is free to stream.
Audiobook — first listen
Ninety seconds of the opening of Chapter One, “The Photograph”, in the narrator's voice.