Race-Based Traumatic Stress (RBTS)

RBTS - The Hidden Mind Killer is a powerful collection of fictionalized stories rooted in lived experiences of Race-Based Traumatic Stress (RBTS)-a disorder rarely named but deeply felt by Black Americans navigating everyday life in a racially charged society.These stories do not focus solely on the violence that makes headlines. They reveal the slow invisible bruising that comes from microaggressions misdiagnoses overlooked genius voter suppression biased home appraisals and generational warnings passed down like family recipes. It is the weight of being watched but never seen praised for resilience while silently unraveling.Told through a wide range of voices-mothers veterans elders sons pastors and young girls-each chapter bears witness to what it means to survive in a system that was not built for your safety or sanity. The names are fictional. The pain is not. Some of these stories are inspired by news reports. Others come from personal accounts whispered truths and memories the world told us to forget. The author himself bears witness to many of them.RBTS is not PTSD. It is not temporary. It is not rare. It is an ongoing survival response to systemic racism-an emotional and psychological toll that impacts the body the family and the community. This book finally gives it a name.From the author of HAMPTON - The Crown Was Never Meant to Fit Me and Magnolia Steel RBTS - The Hidden Mind Killer is both an artistic offering and a social intervention. Each story ends with a moment of reflection and truth-based end notes to help readers connect fiction to fact and trauma to truth.Whether you are reading for healing education or awakening this book will stay with you. It is an archive of stories we were never supposed to tell-and a mirror for anyone who has felt erased exhausted or enraged by the constant need to explain your pain.This isn't just a collection.It's a reckoning.It's proof.We are not crazy.We are tired.And we are finally telling the truth.