Weight Over Fear

Weight Over Fear
By Dron Singleton

In Baton Rouge, reputation is currency — and loyalty costs blood.

Jake, known on the streets as Jake the Demon, isn’t chasing power. He’s surviving it. After carrying out a hit on a young hustler he once mentored, Jake finds himself haunted not by guilt, but by what it proves: loyalty in the game doesn’t come clean.

As old codes crack and new players flex for status, Jake moves through a city where silence is safer than truth, and even shadows earn targets on their backs. But when a setup nearly buries him, and a woman named Tuesday offers a glimpse of peace, Jake is forced to choose between the life that made him... and the one that might save what’s left.

Gritty, lyrical, and unflinching, Weight Over Fear is a story of survival, legacy, and the quiet war between who we are and who we pretend to be.