Full Description
Trouble the Waters gathers the tidal force of bestselling, renowned writers from Lagos to New Orleans, Memphis to Copenhagen, Northern Ireland and London, offering extraordinary speculative fiction tales of ancient waters in all its myriad forms. Meet techno savvy water spirits, bayou saints and sirens, robots and river rootwomen, a pod of joyful space whales, and a castle of water-born terrors and mysteries. Including work by Nalo Hopkinson, Jaquira Diaz, Andrea Hairston, Linda D. Addison, Rion Amilcar Scott, Marie Vibbert, Maurice Broaddus, and other breakout beautiful voices, these stories and poems celebrate the most vital of elemental forces, water.
Contents
TROUBLE THE WATERS:
Tales from the Deep Blue
Table of Contents
Dedication
Introduction>br>1. Mami Wata, Goddess of Clear Blue by Linda Addison
2. Seven Generations Algorithm by Andrea Hairston
3. Water Being by Pan Morigan
4. Ancestries by Sheree Renée Thomas
5. Seamonsters by Ama Patterson
6. Salt Baby by Nanna Árnadóttir
7. Juniper's Song by Marie Vibbert
8. Deep Like the Rivers by Christopher Caldwell
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10. Dance of Myal by Maurice Broaddus
11. Whimper by Nalo Hopkinson
12. A City Called Heaven by Danian Darrell Jerry
13. Numbers by Rion Amilcar Scott
14. Spirits Don't Cross Over 'Til They Do by Jamey Hatley
15. Against the Venom Tide by Henry Szabranksi
16. The Half-Drowned Castle by Lyndsay Gilbert
17. Follow Death by Story Boyle
18. Lilies and Claws by Kate Heartfield
19. The Weaver's Tale by Cecilia Quirk
20. For the Night Is Long and I am Lost Without You by Erica Ruppert
21. All of Us Are She by Jasmine Wade
22. The Stone by Naila Moreira
23. The Sea Devil by Susana Morris
24. Call the Water by adrienne maree brown
25. The Ancestor Abiodun Tells Me About the Time She Forgot Osun by Maria Osunbimpe Hamilton Abegunde
26. Ghosts by Jaquira Diaz
27. Green Symphony by Jacqueline Johnson
28. Maafa to Mami Wata by Heather Byrd Roberts
