ABSTRACT

An anthology of 70 short stories by writers of African descent. The authors are from Europe and the Americas (about half of them from the United States), and they include Alice Walker, Hal Bennett and John Edgar Wideman.

chapter |7 pages

Absolution

ByAi

chapter |6 pages

My Singular Irene

chapter |7 pages

Willie Bea and Jaybird

chapter |13 pages

The Organizer's Wife

chapter |2 pages

Words

chapter |14 pages

Miss Askew on Ice

chapter |6 pages

Civilization

chapter |8 pages

Cherry Bomb

chapter |15 pages

Griff

chapter |7 pages

Columba

chapter |8 pages

The Visit

chapter |4 pages

Night Thoughts

chapter |2 pages

Avenues

chapter |4 pages

Tapestry

chapter |16 pages

Rosena on the Mountain

chapter |5 pages

Under the Rose

chapter |10 pages

Ark of Bones

chapter |5 pages

A Letter

chapter |9 pages

The Miracle

chapter |11 pages

Randall Randall

chapter |6 pages

This Man and Me

chapter |22 pages

Three Men

chapter |14 pages

Accidents

chapter |5 pages

By Love Possessed

chapter |10 pages

She Wakes

chapter |6 pages

Kanaima

chapter |3 pages

Presence

chapter |9 pages

Circle of Shade

chapter |7 pages

Alēthia

chapter |4 pages

The First Day

chapter |7 pages

The Fisherman's House

chapter |8 pages

Transits

chapter |9 pages

My Next-To-Last Hit

chapter |8 pages

The Origin of Whales

chapter |7 pages

Song of Roland

chapter |4 pages

The Blue Room

chapter |6 pages

Marriage Bones

chapter |6 pages

Shoemaker Arnold

chapter |6 pages

City Flesh and Country Manners

chapter |8 pages

Some Get Wasted

chapter |8 pages

Specimen

chapter |12 pages

The More I Like Flies

chapter |11 pages

Quilting on the Rebound

chapter |7 pages

Black Pieces

chapter |10 pages

The Story of a Scar

chapter |9 pages

A Happy Story

chapter |15 pages

Recitatif

chapter |11 pages

A Play

chapter |4 pages

Voodoo

chapter |4 pages

Bewitched

chapter |7 pages

The Devil's Maw

chapter |8 pages

Juby's Morning

chapter |9 pages

Stop Frame

chapter |9 pages

Yawetir

chapter |9 pages

Enough Rides

chapter |5 pages

Keep a Secret

chapter |9 pages

The Little White Girl

chapter |17 pages

This City of Men

chapter |5 pages

You Think I Mad, Miss?

chapter |5 pages

Her Head a Village

chapter |6 pages

Sonatina for Two Drums

chapter |11 pages

Nineteen Fifty-Five

chapter |20 pages

Fever