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The Marked Ones

Uprising

by TreVaughn Malik Roach-Carter

Sixteen-year-old Sam and her older brother, Matty, are seemingly ordinary teens who have survived the unthinkable-witnessing their mother's murder ten years earlier. But one day when they visit their grandmother in a care home, everything changes. After they learn their grandmother has been repeating the same strange phrase for days that forewarns of the demise of the world, a chain of events ultimately leads Sam and Matty to develop superhuman abilities. They also learn the identical marks on their skin are somehow connected to their mother's murder. Now as the siblings are thrust into a power struggle between the organization trying to protect them, the extremists trying to destroy them, and the mysterious figure who has dangerous plans for them, neither has any idea that a secret is about to be revealed with the power to transform their lives forever.

About the Author

TreVaughn Malik Roach-Carter is a Queer Black writer born in Modesto, California. He is a novelist and Fiction Editor with The Ana Literary Magazine. He holds a bachelor’s degree in creative writing and education, and a master’s degree in creative writing with a focus on comics and screenwriting from San Francisco State University. His work has been featured in Ramblr Magazine, Tayo Magazine’s special issue: SOFT, Transfer Magazine, BAD EGG Magazine, Borderless Magazine, The Ana Magazine, and Stellium Magazine. He is a recipient of the Leo Litwalk Literature Award and a Browning Society Award. He is the author of the Young Adult novel The Marked Ones: Uprising. He is currently developing a autofiction short story collection based on three generations of Black women in his family. His Afrocentric fantasy novel, The Aziza Chronicles, is forthcoming with Deep Hearts YA (fall 2022).