Writing
Fiction I wrote, free to read on this site. The covers are made by people: my own cards, and the Blue Veil cover uses character art by DatDude, credited.
Every word here was written by me. I don't use AI for writing because, for me, writing is catharsis. It's therapy. Scribbling words gets me through tough times. There were many of those. Still are. But this is where the soul still burns. I write dark, gritty fiction, often touching on hard topics, so viewer discretion is advised. It's all Rated R. I like it that way. Also, I feel the need to specify something. I'm black. I've had my fair share of people claiming my work is racist before they realize it comes from lived experience. Later, gator.
- LoveBrain
Charlie Ryan is a woman on the way down: an addict, a felon, hated by the family she has left, and haunted by a past mistake that took her youngest sister’s life. She’s barely holding on when a cosmic duty she can’t remember comes looking for her anyway. An R-rated godpunk saga about addiction, family, and the price of finding out who you really are.
Science-fantasy noir in a world run on contracts and control. Uno is a retired war machine with a pretty face, a sharp mouth and very little say in his own life. Season One is “Property”. Season Two is “Sour Grape”.
Pulp science fantasy survival horror. After the world falls apart, Cabriella Spencer ends up in the worst women’s correctional facility in the country, and has to decide who she is going to be inside it.
Vampire: The Black Parade
How did a short, half-Black, Asian kid from Detroit end up the leader of one of the most infamous covens in the vampire world? A satire of the vampire genre, told from the bottom of its caste system.
An urban fantasy and romance pilot, written as a morning exercise and entered in a contest. A burned field, a locked door, and a choice.
All writing © LoveBrain (Anthony “Othello” Merriweather). Free to read; please do not republish it. Earlier editions and bylines of some of these stories were published under the pen name Vicious Darkstar; see About and credits.