Voodoonauts Presents: A Collection of Black Magical Stories & Poetry

From the Voodoonauts Afrofuturist collective for Black science fiction and fantasy writers. When a desperately mundane woman borrows clothing from her mother, a soucouyant goes searching for her skin. A Nigerian parent climbs mountains to heaven to steal a name and glorious destiny for their newborn. A master tailor gets her skills tested when a spectral customer enters her workshop and she can't say no. A preacher casts dark magic from his pulpit when the Word ain't enough to run his church. These tales and more populate Voodoonauts Present: (Re)Living Mythology. Called from the imaginations of its inaugural fellows and a handful of solicited authors including Christopher Caldwell, TL Huchu, and Eden Royce, Voodoonauts curates a coterie of short fiction and poetry that paints across the breadth of magic and Blackness. Co-editors/founders Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, Hugh "HD" Hunter, and LP Kindred ask Black Writers to interrogate their mythologies, folklores, superstition, and wives' tales to create the book within your hands. From the Voodoonauts Afrofuturist collective for Black science fiction and fantasy authors. Every Black Child went to bed with their parents or grandparents telling them a story of old, of greatness or warning or joy. Black People the world over hold myriad and, sometimes, intermingled mythos, wives tales, and folklore. From John Henry to the Orisha, from impundulu to Candyman, the aziza and Baron Samedi, back to Brer Rabbit and Bast and TChalla... These are the narratives, superstitions, and customs that Black People live with and that impact the way we walk through the world. In "(Re)Living Mythology" authors from around the African diaspora reimagine and retell the myths, legends, and folktales they were told as children. Every Black Child went to bed with their parents or grandparents telling them a story of old, of greatness or warning or joy. Black People the world over hold myriad and, sometimes, intermingled mythos, wives tales, and folklore. From John Henry to the Orisha, from impundulu to Candyman, the aziza and Baron Samedi, back to Bre'r Rabbit and Bast and T'Challa... These are the narratives, superstitions, and customs that Black People live with and that impact the way we walk through the world. Produced and edited by the Voodoonauts, a grassroots Afrofuturist collective promoting connectivity and craft within the global Black science fiction and fantasy community.