From the Voodoonauts Afrofuturist collective for Black science fiction and fantasy writers.
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..
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.
These tales and more populate Voodoonauts Present: (Re)Living Mythology.
A preacher casts dark magic from his pulpit when the Word ain\'t enough to run his church.
A master tailor gets her skills tested when a spectral customer enters her workshop and she can\'t say no.
A Nigerian parent climbs mountains to heaven to steal a name and glorious destiny for their newborn.
When a desperately mundane woman borrows clothing from her mother, a soucouyant goes searching for her skin.
From the Voodoonauts Afrofuturist collective for Black science fiction and fantasy writers