In this daring collection of speculative fiction, Stephanie Andrea Allen attends to the lives of Black women, mostly lesbian or queer, all keenly aware of the forces seeking to consume them.
With a mix of fabulism, near future, and speculative fictions, Allen reminds us in exquisitely nuanced prose that the fantastical can be found amongst the ordinary..
The eleven Stories in this collection are filled with characters who will entice and delight readers as they traverse the worlds around them.
Stephanie Andrea Allen\'s How to Dispatch a Human: Stories and Suggestions is an unapologetic, often humorous, foray into the quotidian magic that envelops Black women\'s lives.
And in the follow up to Luna 6000, a young woman investigates her mother\'s untimely death, and learns the truth about her family.
An enchanted sleep mask gives a woman the gift of slumber, but what will it cost her? A suburban housewife is framed for murder by her homophobic neighbor.
A Black lesbian working the gig economy runs into a trio of motorized scooters and helps them escape from Earth.
In this daring collection of speculative fiction, Stephanie Andrea Allen attends to the lives of Black women, mostly lesbian or queer, all keenly aware of the forces seeking to consume them
