Planet of the Races: Episode 2—When the Sky Called His Name expands kineyã’s science-fiction world into a deeply personal story about grief, family, dignity, faith, and the right to be seen as fully human. At the center is Roni Joseph, a gifted Black teenager from Opelousas, Louisiana, whose hard life has taught him that circumstances can shape a person—but they do not have to define who that person becomes.
When the sky calls Roni’s name, it does not simply...
The Pact of Sukkar: A Tale From the Darker Side is a historical Gothic-horror novel that transforms sugar into a symbol of conquest, enslavement, greed, and spiritual corruption. In the same way tobacco and cotton became pillars of colonial wealth—commodities whose profits depended on land theft, forced labor, and systems of racial hierarchy—sugar in The Pact of Sukkar carries an ominous history beneath its sweetness.
The novel’s central question is simple and disturbing: What happens when the...
What We Carry Into the Dark: Colonialism, Race, and the Ethics of First Contact is not simply a book about aliens, distant planets, or the possibility of life beyond Earth. It is a question humanity must answer before it carries its oldest habits into a new frontier:
If we encounter another intelligent life form, what will we bring with us—curiosity and humility, or conquest, entitlement, fear, and domination?
This work of speculative nonfiction asks readers to reconsider the moral meaning of...
Vadoo: Tales From the Darker Side is a work of Black Sci-Fi, horror, and social reckoning. Its title may sound familiar to readers who associate it with “Voodoo,” but Vadoo is its own fictional creation: a dark, imaginative story that uses supernatural consequence to confront racism, violence, greed, inherited fear, and the systems that protect power.
This is not a book about reducing African-derived spiritual traditions to horror imagery. It is a novel about what happens when hatred creates a...
Written by kiney, The Last Alamo is a memoir that follows a man from Houston as he fulfills a long family legacy of military service and learns what it truly means to defend one's country. Moving from childhood in the Deep South through decades of Army life—from OD greens to BDUs to the Army Aircrew Combat Uniform—the narrative threads together family migration, neighborhood watchfulness, and early lessons in patriotism with the brutal realities of racism, combat, and command.
Twenty-Seven Years A Slave: A Memoir of Silence, Survival, and Grace is a deeply personal memoir of trauma, addiction, military service, and redemption, written to serve as both testimony and recovery resource for service members carrying unspoken wounds. The book traces one man's journey from the hidden wounds of childhood sexual assault through years of silence, shame, and substance abuse, offering veterans and active-duty personnel a mirror for pain that often goes unnamed inside military...
Step away from the mundane. Our stories don't just entertain — they transport.
Travel across galaxies in search of knowledge older than civilization itself. Stand alongside heroes who fight creatures born from worlds we've never seen, and creatures who've watched humanity build empires — and burn them down — since the first fire was lit. Some of these beings have witnessed our thirst for civilization and the evils it drags in its wake. What if you could see ourselves through their eyes?
For almost a century, the world has known one version of Kong: a celluloid phantom projected onto silver screens, a spectacle of chains and skyscrapers and a screaming woman whose fear was framed as the whole truth. That version turned an island into a backdrop, a people into shadows, and a being of immense intelligence into a cautionary tale about the dangers of the “primitive.” It did what so much of twentieth-century entertainment did so efficiently: it made erasure beautiful. The Legend of...
To call oneself an American is not a birthright casually claimed—it is a debt owed to every soldier who paid for that name in blood, and to every family at home who paid for it in worry. Respect for the soldier is not optional in this country; it is the foundation on which the rest of the house stands.
Soldiers fight the battles that cost them in blood. Those at home pay a quieter but no less real price—the cost of simply knowing their soldier is out there, in harm's way, while life at home...
The reason my Black Sci‑Fi stories work for me is that they move in rhythm with historical trauma. What we’ve lived through is not abstract—it’s inherited memory, body‑level knowledge of danger, and the daily work of surviving structures built against us. A non‑Black reader can study that history, empathize with it, even be changed by it, but they will never fully feel the layered complexity of carrying it from the inside.
When I write Black Sci‑Fi, I’m not inventing horror from a safe...
Readers love this series because beneath the high-concept sci-fi, it carries a sharp, nuanced truth: i is hunted as a criminal before he ever gets the chance to prove he's peaceful. Neighborhood profiling, pushed out into extraterrestrial space.
It takes the familiar fallout of being misjudged on sight and stretches it to the cosmic level — turning everyday racial and community profiling into alien profiling. The question underneath it all: what does it mean when our first instinct is to fear...
This book extends its dedication to all Veterans, from every military service, irrespective of their national origin or political beliefs.
The piece titled "The Last Alamo" is presented as a tribute to our respected Veterans and to the mighty 155mm Howitzer, frequently hailed as the King of Battle. For six years, I personally committed my military service in the Army, specifically within Division Artillery, to operating this potent weapon system. The bonds forged through this experience were a...
Every family has someone who teaches you how to survive without ever using that word. For me, that person was Uncle Hardy.
I don't remember him sitting me down for a formal lesson. Survival, the way Uncle Hardy taught it, didn't come wrapped in speeches. It came in the way he watched a room before he walked into it, the way he read weather before it turned, the way he never wasted a single word or a single resource. He carried himself like a man who had already...
It started with Coach Cruise at M.B. Smiley High School (NFISD, Houston, TX) — 4 years of cross country and track that taught me discipline before I even knew what to call it.
Then came the Army. PT runs at 0530, ruck marches, and eventually an international military track competition in Germany — running for something bigger than a scoreboard.
But underneath the training and the competition, there's always been something simpler: a personal love of running. It's mental therapy of the best...
kiney writes historical horror, Black speculative fiction, and socially conscious science fiction that confront the stories America—and the world—would often prefer to bury. His work carries the immersive, character-driven dread readers may recognize in Stephen King’s fiction, but kiney’s monsters do not only emerge from haunted hotels, dark woods, or small-town secrets. They rise from chain gangs, black operations, stolen land, racial violence, political betrayal, addiction, religious...
The first time you read one of my books, you asked a simple question that stopped me cold:
“Did you use AI?”
I will admit it stung. My pride bristled, and for a few days I carried that irritation with me, turning the question over and over in my mind. But somewhere along the way, the question changed shape. It stopped feeling like an accusation and began to feel like an invitation.
So I returned to the drawing board.
I rewrote nearly everything I had written—every book except my first, which was...
