Fantastic Stories of the Imagination People of Color Flash Anthology

by Julie M. Rodriguez, Cassandra Khaw, Laurie Tom

Overview

Fantastic Stories prides itself on being open to underrepresented voices. Science fiction and fantasy should encompass the totality of the human experience, in all of its diversity and complexity. Fantastic Stories is determined to explore a more inclusive, realistic vision of the future.

People of color have been publishing some of the highest quality science fiction and fantasy since the genre's earliest days. Yet, there still persists a perception that science fiction and fantasy is somehow a white field. We'd like to help shatter that illusion and showcase some of the finest writer's that science fiction and fantasy has to offer. Here are twenty six flash stories that will do just that.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781515417057
Publisher:	Wilder Publications
Publication date:	04/17/2017
Pages:	72
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.17(d)

Table of Contents

Stone Heart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

by Julia Rios

The Curse of Giants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

by José Pablo Iriarte

The Crater Maiden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

by Julie M. Rodriguez

Deathbed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

by Caroline M. Yoachim

Every Instance of You. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

by Cassandra Khaw

The White Snake. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

by Laurie Tom

First Ride of the Day. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

by Darcie Little Badger

Ebb and Flow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

by LaShawn M. Wanak

Rainbows and Unicorns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

by Malon Edwards

The House at the End of the World. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

by Carmen Maria Machado

Low-Carb Cheesecake. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

by Nicky Drayden

Princesses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

by Jeremy Sim

My Grandmother’s Bones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

by S.L. Huang

The Buyout.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

by Ananyo Bhattacharya

Broken-Winged Love.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

by Naru Dames Sundar

Love in the Time of Alien Invasion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

by Samuel Marzioli

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Once, in a Small Town. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

by Eliza Victoria

A Different Mistake.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

by Eve Shi

Accidental Queen of the Spiders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

by Zina Hutton

17 Amazing Plot Elements... When You See #11, You’ll Be Astounded!. . . . 48

by James Beamon

Walls of Nigeria.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

by Jeremy Szal

Six Things We Found During the Autopsy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

by Kuzhali Manickavel

Looking the Lopai in the Eyes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

by Indrapramit Das

The Chupacabra’s Charming Cuchifrito Café, Recommended Review. . . . 61

by Richie Narvaez

Choices, in Sequential Order.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez

Strange Attractors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

by S.B. Divya