Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue

In this haunting and imaginative new volume, speculative fiction authors from around the globe explore the power, mystery, and majesty of water. From Lagos to New Orleans, Reykjavik to Beijing, new and celebrated writers tell us how water, ancient and dangerous, precious and fragile, takes startling new forms. In these hallucinatory short stories, water reveals itself as teacher, lover, goddess, and monster; music, treasure, danger, and medicine. Listen to the magic of water as writers such as Andrea Hairston, Nalo Hopkinson, Rion Amilcar Scott, Christopher Caldwell, among others, illuminate for us the source of all life. Contents: * Introduction (Trouble the Water: Tales from the Deep Blue) • essay by Sheree Renée Thomas * Water Dreaming • essay by Pat Morigan * We Are Called to the Water • essay by Troy L. Wiggins * Mami Wata, Goddess of Clear Blue (2017) / poem by Linda D. Addison * Seven Generations Algorithm / novelette by Andrea Hairston * Water Being / short story by Pat Morigan * Love Hangover / novelette by Sheree Renée Thomas? * Seamonsters (2006) / short story by Ama Patterson * Salt Baby / short story by Nanna Árnadóttir * Juniper's Song / short story by Marie Vibbert * Portal / short story by Mateo Hinojosa * Deep Like the Rivers / short story by Christopher Caldwell * Ho'i Hou E Na Pō? / short story by Gina McGuire * At the Opening of Bayou St. John / short story by Shawn Scarber * Mother of Crawdads (2018) / short story by Betsy Phillips * Dance of Myal / short story by Maurice Broaddus * Whimper (2016) / short story by Nalo Hopkinson * A City Called Heaven / short story by Danian Darrell Jerry * Numbers (2014) / short story by Rion Amilcar Scott * Spirits Don't Cross over Water 'Til They Do / short story by Jamey Hatley * Against the Venom Tide (2016) / short story by Henry Szabranski * The Half-Drowned Castle / short story by Lyndsay E. Gilbert * Follow Death / short story by Story Boyle * Lilies and Claws / short story by Kate Heartfield * The Weaver's Tale / short story by Cecilia Quirk * All of Us Are She / short story by Jasmine Wade * The Stone / short story by Naila Moreira * Hagfish / short story by Rylee Edgar * The Sea Devil / short story by Susana Morris * Call the Water / short story by Adrienne Maree Brown * The Ancestor Abiodun Tells Me About the Time She Forgot Osun / short story by Maria Osunbimpe Hamilton Abegunde * Mississippi Medusa / short story by Elle L. Littlefield * Ghosts (2014) / short story by Jaquira Diaz * Green Symphony (2015) / poem by Jacqueline Johnson * Maafa to Mami Wata / poem by Heather 'Byrd' Roberts * Contributors • essay by editor * Permissions • essay by editor . View Less