SOULS for SALE IIWILL JONES
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Will Jones

Will Jones writes urban fiction grounded in the neighborhoods that raise people and the systems that test them.

Will Jones, author of the Souls for Sale series.

The Souls for Sale series follows Bethany, a place held together by habit, memory and community, and the people who refuse to let it be quietly erased.

The horror in these stories is not only supernatural. It is paperwork. It is real estate. It is silence. It is the way a neighborhood can be drained piece by piece while everyone is told it is progress.

Souls for Sale II continues J and Ashley’s story through grief, power, survival, and the cost of staying when leaving would be easier.

A hand writing longhand in a spiral notebook under a low lamp.
Where the books start
Why these stories

For the ones no one prays for.

For the people of the streets, the blocks and the neighborhoods that raised us. For the kids who grow up too fast. For the women who protect with prayers and locked doors. For the men who stand, struggle and endure. For the families pushed out long before anyone had a word like gentrification.

You didn’t ask for this. But you’re still here.

A family photographed together, three generations, smiling.

For the families pushed out long before anyone had a word for it.

Bibliography

Everything Will has written.

NovelSouls for Sale — Book OneOut now
NovelSouls for Sale II: Power. Secrets. Survival.Out now
StoryBus 13 — a short story, free to readFree
GuideThe End Hurts — Moving Forward: A Guide for MenOut now
EssayHotep: The GapOut now
NovelSouls for Sale IIIForthcoming
As editor

Reclaimed: Lost Classics of Black Literature.

Out-of-print Black literature put back in print. The books are their authors’; the editions are Will’s.

1902Of One Blood; or, The Hidden Self — Pauline E. HopkinsIntroduced
1899The Conjure Woman — Charles W. ChesnuttIntroduced
A misty railroad crossing on the edge of Bethany at night.
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