"Tuck your chain, it's dangerous in these streets."

Bray Manuel must survive the summer before college after his parents forced him out of the house for being gay.
Southbound is the first novella in The Memoirs of Bray Manuel Duology. As imagination and hash realities meet in a series of Bray's personal memoirs. Southbound is something author M. J. Meyel has been waiting his entire adulthood to write. He confesses Bray's coming out story that have haunted and resided within him as a testimony for young queer men of color in the fictional novella.