FICTION — RESTIVE SOULS

The Tale of Shyllandrus Zulu: Chapters One and Two

A high priestess stumbles into political leadership

A Restive Souls excerpt

As told to eminent historian Emmet Bolo by the high priestess Zulu West.

This excerpt takes place after the events of Part 1 in the novel, Restive Souls. The British have won the Revolutionary War, which they refer to as the Colonial War. In response to the war, the British have emancipated the slaves, in no small part as punishment to the Colonials. Most of the plantations, ports, and landholdings in the South and parts of the North have been seized by those who were forced to work them in chains. We first meet the Haitian Guillaume Diderot in Part One.

Restive Souls Part 2: Carolina Rising

Zulu’s Tale (1801–1804)

1.

I first met Guillaume Diderot when he was but an alarmed raconteur with a wild mind and a savage heart for justice. He was a boisterous hawk circling his congregation, hoping to use it as a cudgel against the Europeans. And yet, strangely, it had been he who revealed the hidden grace of my inner spirit.