Florida August
2016 Hip Hop Comix and Flix announces the release of the urbanlit disaster
story The Harlem Shake by Jeff Carroll.
It Happened on Negro Mountain is a real place located in Maryland. It
Happened on Negro Mountain is available everywhere books are sold.
The 125th
Street Fault is caused by a rift in the crust runs along
underneath this street from the East River to New Jersey and
is known as the 125th Street Fault or the Manhattanville
Fault. It is suspected to have caused a magnitude-5.2 earthquake in
1737, two smaller ones in 1981, as well as a 2.4 magnitude quake in 2001. The fault
line, which skims across the top of Central Park and runs to Roosevelt
Island to the southeast, creates a fault valley deep enough to require the IRT
Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line to use a trestle bridge between
122nd and 135th Streets. Riverside Drive also elevates to cross over
the fault valley.
“I wanted to
write a mainstream type story but still black.
I wanted to expand on what is black science fiction. When people think of Black sci-fi they think
of African warriors and paranormal stories not global disasters and the post apocalypse,”
said Jeff Carroll of his work.
The Harlem
Shake (Hip Hop Comix N Flix Paperback, August 20, 2016, ISBN: 978-0-9820087-5-1
$12.00 and $3.99 ebook) set to change the face of Urbanlit and Black Sci-fi
with author Jeff Carroll. Jeff Carroll is an activist to his core and after the
2010 earthquake hit Haiti which was rumored to be caused by fracking near a
fault line he looked for other fault lines.
When he learned about the 125th Street fault line he wanted
to write it into a story and start a conversation about disaster prep in the
Black community.
The story: Two
lovers are reunited by the storm of the century.. Just when New Yorkers were
given a wakeup call into the realities of Global Warming by way of Hurricane
Sandy, Harlem becomes host to yet another one of Mother Nature’s catastrophic
lessons.
There was an
inactive fault line under the village of Harlem. When this fracture in the bedrock of Harlem’s
famed 125th street becomes active, all of Harlem begins to shake as New York
experiences a category 8 earthquake.
Young
television audience producer Kenny thinks he is prepared for everything
Murphy’s Law can throw at him. With the
help of his roommate, Ant, he manages to generate a packed audience to the
Apollo Theater despite the hurricane forecast..
He is full of confidence when he runs into his ex-girlfriend, Deidra,
who left him to travel along with a rapper as a glorified manager.
Still in all
he was having a good day, but not in his wildest dreams would he think that he
and his team of audience coordinators and friends would have to navigate
crevasses the length of city blocks, collapsing buildings and lawless streets.
It will take all of his skills to help them escape being buried under the
rubble of this world famous concrete jungle.
Jeff Carroll
lives in South Florida, with his wife and son.
He is a writer, a filmmaker and owner of Hip Hop Comix N Flix. He enjoys writing Sci/fi, Horror and fantasy
stories with lots of action and a social edge.
He has written and produced 2 films, his second film was Gold Digger
Killer won 3 film awards including BEST Picture at the International Hip Hop
film festival. Jeff Carroll is the author of the non-fiction book The Hip Hop
Dating Guide.
