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...