The Boy Who Heard Black Wings

Black Wings, White FurDuncan Harper can hear the crows.Most people call it imagination. His parents call it grief. The kids at school call it crazy. Duncan only knows that the black-winged birds have spoken to him since the day his older brother Elias drowned in the family pool warning him, guiding him, and reminding him of the guilt he has never been able to put down.Soren Blake is the school's star tight end, a snow leopard in a letterman jacket who has spent years perfecting the art of looking unbreakable. Behind the wins and the easy confidence he carries a secret that could cost him everything: he is gay, terrified of losing the life he has built, and increasingly unable to look away from the quiet boy who talks to crows.When their paths cross, an unlikely friendship begins one built in the margins of the school day, on a forgotten billboard overlooking town, in the woods where the crows wait, and in the small, ordinary moments that slowly become necessary. But friendship is not the only thing growing between them. As Soren's hidden truth and Duncan's old wounds rise to the surface, both boys are forced to decide what they are willing to risk for the chance to be fully seen.Set against the backdrop of high-school hallways, family expectations, and the lingering shadow of loss, Black Wings, White Fur is a story about the quiet courage of staying, the weight of the things we carry alone, and the rare people who make the burden lighter simply by refusing to look away.For readers who love slow-burn queer romance, tender character-driven narratives, and stories about found connection after grief.