What if turning 70 meant vanishing—literally?

In a future where age is a liability, people over 70 simply… disappear. No funerals. No goodbyes. Just...

Yomi Akinode
Yomi Akinode

Yomi Akinode is a writer and actor living in San Diego, California. He studied in Birmingham, England, as well as Universities in Ohio and New Jersey in the United States, earning a bachelor’s degree and an MBA in International Business. Yomi has been living in the U.S. for nearly forty years.

He shares compelling crime fiction thriller mysteries that weave together international criminal intrigue, exploring the complexities of human nature under pressure and the unpredictable results that follow. These actions are not isolated but are often culturally symbolic, crossing the line between nature and nurture.

When he is not writing, he spends most of his time listening to jazz, mainly Bebop & Hardbop, and learning how to play songs from his favorite artists such as Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Joshua Redman, Lee Morgan, and others. He is also learning to play the piano and tenor saxophone.

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You Better Not Get Old

What if turning 70 meant vanishing—literally?

In a future where age is a liability, people over 70 simply… disappear. No funerals. No goodbyes. Just silence.

When decorated FBI Agent Berlin Yords is given a simple assignment to find people who vanish without a trace on their 70th birthday, she refuses to let the mystery die.
Her search uncovers a...

The Mafidon Inheritance

The alarm blew when an ancient bronze collar kept in a vacuum-sealed hyperbaric chamber went missing in a large warehouse full of suspicious personnel. The bronze neckwear is the only known clue to a rare historical artifact missing for over three hundred years. It’s an unforgiving, suspenseful race against time to find the chamber before...

Yharo & Odin

A nerve agent canister slams against a wall, and Doctor Weston Peel quickly plants on a face mask as the explosion emits a poisonous gas mist.

Weston watches as Yharo & Odin Duvall, tied to chairs, slumped unconscious. Gleeful, Weston celebrates the end of his sinister and crazy experiments as the mixed-race brothers, an African-American and...

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Charity They say charity begins at home. But why does it have to start in a

They say charity begins at home. But why does it have to start in a specific location?

The art of benevolence to others is age-old and timeless, a tradition that connects us to our ancestors. However, its lustre now has less burnish in the age of social media, where everything has to be about me, me, me. And when you challenge, petulance rears its head in the form of "...I'm building my brand..."

So, how much time is left to help others, and momentarily forget your woes and petty peaves?...

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