What if the end of the world wasn't a punishment, but a correction?

When silent, jagged ships appear and enact a mysterious "Sorting," the fabric of society is torn. The powerful vanish, leaving behind the marginalized, the overlooked, and the persistently resilient.

Malik Johnson hears the hum in his teeth?a frequency connecting him to the alien presence. Elena fights to keep her biracial son from dissolving at the border of this new reality. As old systems collapse, the ones who were always forced to survive must now answer a terrifying question: How do you build a new world from the scar tissue of the old?

A searing, thought-provoking vision of AfroFuturism from Michael Antonio and Invictus Media Arts.

When the Ships Stayed Silent is a powerful work of speculative fiction and Afrofuturism that explores what happens when the veil is removed from society, and the people deemed "expendable" become the architects of the future.