Ncube
Flying High on a Free Fall
CCA Berlin warmly invites you to the book launch of Flying High on a Free Fall by Ncube on 16 December 2025 at 7 pm—an evening of readings, screenings, anecdotes, and Christmas lights.
Ncube invites you to experience a night to remember. To celebrate the release of his 18 years in the making speculative novel Flying High on a Free Fall, Ncube will screen some shorts, tell a story or two, and enlist the help of the softspoken Erin Honeycutt (CUTT PRESS) in the reading of two passages from the books.
Ncube, Flying High on a Free Fall, book cover. Courtesy the artist.
Flying High on a Free Fall is a speculative novel set in 2090s Zimbabwe, where assisted suicide has evolved to engender the expression: be careful what you wish for... Those wishing to die no longer travel to clinics, they write instead. Letters are sent to Suicide Inc, where agents are assigned on a case-by-case basis.
Told in dos-à-dos format, or two novels bound together that meet in the middle, the story unfolds from opposite sides. In one, a high school student sends a letter to Suicide Inc. In the other, unaware that their request has already set an unseen process in motion, an agent assumes the identity of a transfer student, infiltrating the teenager’s world of friendship, gossip, and crushes. As both voices spiral toward the centre, their perspectives converge in an emotional collision that blurs duty and desire, death and awakening.
Flying High on a Free Fall is a mirror-novel about consent, intimacy, and the ethics of care in a future that has professionalized empathy. Designed with two beginnings and no end, it challenges the reader to confront which story, life or death, feels more like the beginning.
The book is published by CUTT PRESS.
Courtesy Ncube.
Ncube is a novelist / filmmaker / playwright / executive producer // extra / actor / roller-skater / model // radio host / pop culture aficionado / champion of under-repped talents & over-valued genii // creator / inventor / not an Poet or an Artist, but often creates art // humanist / embraces any pronouns, including 'it' / wishes to someday have a wife & kids / deeply loves God, Africa & the Sun.
For more, visit malelevision.com, where you'll find examples of Ncube's acting, writing, filmmaking and all things in-between. Ncube is also the author of Flying High on a Free Fall, a book 18 years in the making.