From a life that refused to end to a dark fantasy mythology. One man's survival became a world where every emotion costs something and every color is earned.
Subscribe on SubstackThis is the story of a life that refused to end. Addiction, survival, and finding magic in the gutter. From trafficking and childhood trauma to jumping from a five-story window and surviving — this is how Jeff White came to still possess hope.
The Shards of Color Trilogy is a direct allegorical translation of this memoir into dark fantasy. The real story came first. The mythology followed.
The hard-won lessons Jeff learned turned into a full mythology — a conversation on the AIDS crisis, lateral damage within the gay community, and the creation of a cosmology spanning from the creation of their universe to the end of their world. Every character, every emotion, every rupture in the fantasy maps back to something real.
Each hue is unlocked through emotional rupture. There are no shortcuts to the spectrum.
A story told across three volumes, each pulling Jethran deeper into a world that demands he feel nothing while he carries everything.
Jethran Frye is born with color in a monochrome world — deemed a flaw, marked for incineration. He encounters the Seven Songs, loses his hand to the Menders who call mutilation healing, and falls in love with Fable. He defeats the Uncrowned King not with violence, but with emotional intelligence — the full weight of everything he has survived.
"And they lived colorfully ever still."
Coming SoonPeace shatters when the Fading plague targets the Silvarii. Saga accuses Jethran. Kings divide — Fable returns to the Hollow with reformed tormentor Martier; Jethran and Saga seek the Pixxels of Power. Fox cub Lilian joins as protector. Saga falls in love with Stanza. The Fading is revealed as genocide. Jethran discovers he is Cadence, the primordial source of the First Song.
In DevelopmentTwenty years of harmony. Adopted twins Tierro and Arby discover they are reincarnated echoes of past tormentors Martier and Vasil. Arby becomes a vessel of anti-color. Stanza is consumed by the void protecting the realm. Jethran and Fable fuse into the Spectra King. Cadence sacrifices his mortal life. The Rainbow King is revealed to be their future selves — the guide was always them.
"And they truly live colorfully ever still."
In DevelopmentSaga sails to rescue her family from the Isle of Autonomy. New friend, new cast — the first book not based on anyone in Jeff's life. A bridge from the trilogy to the next generation of the Shards of Color world.
In DevelopmentConversations about the stories behind the stories. The real-life events that became mythology, the creative process, and the raw truth underneath the fantasy.
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