The Resistance Suite
In the Resistance Suite, four interconnected novellas explore what happens when ordinary people confront systems designed to erase them. Set across prisons, laboratories, courtrooms, mountains, and centuries, the Resistance Suite examines the cost of speaking truth when silence is safer—and more profitable.
At the heart of these tales are characters who begin as witnesses. A nurse in a correctional facility notices medication withheld “per protocol.” A researcher tracks outcomes that feel too tidy. A quiet archivist keeps records others would rather see burned. What begins as observation becomes moral reckoning. The book asks: when the rules themselves are corrupt, what does resistance look like in daily life?
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The Resistance Suite: Stories That Refuse to Be Silenced
The Dark Hollow Series — Books 1–4
Gene Scott
Greenwich Palace, 1521. Thomas Tester tastes foxglove in Henry VIII’s wine. He swallows it anyway. Spitting at the king’s table could get him beheaded before the poison kills him. Now the court wants his family’s knowledge, and it wants his eight-year-old son, Edward.
Carter County, Tennessee, 2025. Dr. Grace Blackwood has trial data and internal emails showing that Northeastern Medical sold addictive painkillers as non-addictive. Three young people overdose in one week. Two whistleblowers are dead. Days before she testifies, a company representative calls at three in the morning and mentions her grandmother’s death. Someone has already cut her brake line.
Cherokee Valley, 2019. A retention pond bursts. Twenty-six people die. Watershed Management blames the rain. Attorney Esther Nighthawk wades into the flooded research facility for a strongbox holding falsified inspections and a memo that predicted twenty-six deaths. Her radiation badge turns black. A second pond fails.
At Black Hollow Correctional Facility, Eunice Blackfeather counts 316 prisoners. The official count is 314. Seventeen-year-old Marcus Thompson has gone forty-two hours without his lithium. Eunice files an escalation. The hold stays. Then the chaplain hands out thirty fixed-blade knives under a program called “faith-based rehabilitation.”
Three years after his brother Malik died at Black Hollow, Desmond Rios still carries Malik’s recorder. The night before he testifies before Congress, Senator Patricia Martinez hands him logs of withheld medication and a note in Malik’s handwriting: Black Hollow was a test site. Twelve states. Same grants.
A flash drive. A strongbox. A composition book from Dollar General. A dead brother’s recorder. Each one holds what someone wants buried.
The Resistance Suite contains all four books—The Testers, The Water Remembers, Troublemaker, and Names Like Prayers—with a reader’s guide for each.
