A love letter of encouragement to all of the black boys around the world who feel like sports are all they have. It is a reminder that they are more than athletes, more than a jersey number, more than a great crossover or a forty-yard dash, that the biggest game that they’ll ever play is the game of life, and there are people rooting for them off of the courts and fields, not as athletes, but as future leaders of the world.
In ATHLETE, MR. TOMONOSHi reimagines the athlete as a modern-day animal—trained to survive in the jungle of competition, yet often unprepared for the wilderness beyond it. Blending poetic narrative, cultural critique, and psychological depth, ATHLETE explores the mental blueprint of the athlete.
MR. TOMONOSHi!’s BLACK THOUGHTS: A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS is an uncompromising exploration of Black American Futurism, resistance, innovation, and the elevation of Black thought. This book does not seek permission—it reclaims the narrative, dismantles historical distortions, and reimagines the Black future on its own terms.
WATERMELON SUMMERS is a Southern Afrofuturist coming-of-age novel by MR. TOMONOSHi—a lyrical, ceremonial autoethnography blending fiction, memory, and Black theological imagination. Framed as a field journal, it explores family, ritual, and emotional inheritance through the eyes of Coltrane Johnson III. A sacred record of Black life in the South. A spiritual archive disguised as a novel.
