Broken fevers

Author

Tenea D Johnson

Call Number

• FICTION JOHN (CEN)

Publication Information

Greenbelt, MD : Rosarium Publishing, [2021]

Physical Description

139 pages ; 21 cm

Summary

"From humor to horror, the speculative fiction in Broken Fevers has a gleaming edge. This new collection by award winner Tenea D. Johnson features 14 tales. Though many are dark, they pull one through the light, if only for a moment, to visit the next vista, a new world, or this one recast in an uncertain future. Whether it be the lengths a woman will go to for performance art or how best to communicate the Middle Passage's horrors to the privileged, darkness has room to breathe here and bring wonder. Social commentary and genetic adaptation exist alongside fairy crises, alien liminalities, and the responsibilities of those holding up the world and those who communicate with the next. Broken Fevers shares the heart in the hurt, the courage in a cataclysm, and the connections that we make wherever we find ourselves."--back cover.

Contents

• Bare
• Foundling
• Lopsided world
• The taken
• Publishable regrets
• Sugar Hill
• How the Carters got their name
• Deep night
• Only then can I sleep
• Live forevers
• Release in A minor
• Wake
• The hell you say
• Up jumped the devil.