Escape from Beckyville: Tales of Race, Hair and Rage

by Nicole Sconiers

Overview

Anything can happen on Heliotrope Boulevard. In "Escape from Beckyville: Tales of Race, Hair and Rage," go inside a futuristic Los Angeles where female wraiths prey on black women for their hair, southern maids possess superpowers and black women live in fear of being stopped by the Rage Patrol. Ten dysfunctional divas – all named Jones – struggle to survive among the chaos, as they deal with their own insecurities and their relationship to "Becky." In these ten twisted and provocative tales, Nicole D. Sconiers tackles issues of race, hair and rage in witty, haunting and terrifying ways.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011376993
Publisher:	Nicole Sconiers
Publication date:	06/27/2011
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	668 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Nicole D. Sconiers is an author and screenwriter who blends horror, speculative fiction and humor in stories centering complex Black heroines.

She is the author of Escape from Beckyville: Tales of Race, Hair and Rage, a speculative fiction short-story collection that has been taught at colleges and universities around the country.

Her work has appeared in Nightmare magazine, Lightspeed magazine, Speculative City, NIGHTLIGHT: A Horror Fiction Podcast, PodCastle, the Black Futures edition of Spelman College’s literary journal Aunt Chloe: A Journal of Artful Candor and other publications.

Her short stories were published in the anthologies Black from the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Writing, December Tales and Sycorax’s Daughters, which was a Bram Stoker Award finalist.

As a screenwriter, she was a finalist for the 2022 ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy screenplay competition for her sci-fi thriller Spectacle. She co-wrote the psychological thriller movie A Mother’s Intuition that aired on TV One in May 2023.