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Step into a deeply interconnected literary universe where standalone stories collide, and characters share a collective heartbeat. Michael C. Thompson’s Tribes of the Heart Collection explores the delicate architecture of family, chosen kin, and the generational echoes of the events that shape us.
Anger's Bitch
When a viral act of heroism exposes his violent past, an ex-con must confront his darkest demons to find true redemption.
Fifty-seven-year-old Lyndon "Gib" Gibson has spent years building a quiet, solitary life in Houston to hide the "monster" he believes he is. But after a split-second decision to stop a kidnapping thrusts him into the blinding spotlight of the internet, his dark, violent history is dragged out for the world to see, shattering his fresh start overnight. Guided by the profound, hard-won wisdom of Elijah—a brilliant 1960s jazz musician who survived a sixty-year wrongful conviction—and pursued by a relentless journalist, Gib must navigate the wreckage of his exposed life. Anger's Bitch is a gripping tale of systemic injustice, generational echoes, and the grueling, beautiful art of mending broken lives with gold.
The Favorite Person
Available on Amazon June 19th
How do you survive a storm you've been trained to manage your whole life?
Since childhood, Andre Collins has been the ultimate "shock absorber," trained by his mother’s suffocating perfectionism to keep the peace at all costs. Now a young father, he carries this toxic survival training into his marriage with Kali, a highly volatile woman who uses him as her emotional hostage and "Favorite Person". Sacrificing his promising engineering career and his own sanity to manage her explosive moods, Andre is drowning in a cycle of isolation and emotional abuse. But when a crushing betrayal shatters the illusion of their life, Andre finds unlikely salvation in an unfiltered brotherhood of men known as the "Tuesday Group". To save his son and himself, Andre must finally stop trying to control the storm and learn to fiercely guard the doors of his own peace.
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"Shame is a liar, Lyndon." "It tells you the poison is in the man." "Guilt just tells you about the act."
Elijah - Anger's Bitch
"Boredom is the rent you pay for sanity." "It’s expensive." "But it’s cheaper than the alternative."
Chisel Face - The Favorite Person
Michael C. Thompson
We are all broken in our own ways, but it is how we are put back together that defines us.
Written by Licensed Professional Counselor Michael C. Thompson, the Tribes of the Heart Collection is a series of interconnected literary fiction novels centering on Black life, resilience, and the delicate architecture of community. Set in a shared Houston, Texas universe, each standalone story reveals how one life inevitably ripples into the next.
Visceral, psychologically rich, and unapologetically hopeful, this collection proves that while trauma may be generational, so is healing.
