Let's Play White(Updated) by ChesyaBurke Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2011 by Apex Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-937009-99-1, ISBN: 1-937009-99-8
"White brings with it dreams of respect, of wealth, of simply being treated as a human being. It's the one thing Walter will never be. But what if he could play white, the way so many others seem to do? Would it bring him privilege or simply deny the pain? The title story in this collection asks those questions, and then moves on to challenge notions of race, privilege, personal choice, and even life and death with equal vigor. From the ..."
"Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every month. EDITORIAL Words from the Editor-in-Chief — Jason Sizemore FICTION Bargains by the Slant-Light — Cassandra Khaw The Standard of Ur — Hassan Abdulrazzak With Lips Sewn Shut — Kristi DeMeester For Sale: Fantasy Coffins — C ..."
"The Strange Crimes of Little Africa is a historical mystery and follows Jaz Idawell on the vibrant, culturally fertile streets of art and literature in the 1920's Harlem Renaissance. Idawell, an anthropology student, stumbles upon the realization that she may have to sacrifice her cousin's freedom when she discovers evidence that her father, the first black traffic cop on the force, may be guilty of murder. Best friends with the indelib ..."
"Contact was usually made through a medium, a person who claimed to have the ability to speak with the dead.There Is No Death, There Are No Dead tackles all aspects of the spiritualist movement: from the true believers to the nay-sayers, the ..."
Hero Me Not The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero [Hardcover ] by ChesyaBurke Hardcover, Published 2023 by Rutgers Univ Pr Apr 2023 ISBN-13: 978-1-978821-06-4, ISBN: 1-978821-06-9
"Brand-new stories of witches and witchcraft written by popular female fantasy authors, including Kelley Armstrong, Rachel Caine and Sherrilyn Kenyon writing in their own bestselling universes!These are tales of witches, wickedness, evil and cunning. Stories of disruption and subversion by today's women you should fear. Including Kelley Armstrong, Rachel Caine and Sherrilyn Kenyon writing in their own bestselling universes.These witches ..."
"What happens when idyllic small-towns, and the simple folk who inhabit them, collide with inexplicable evil borne of a vast and uncaring cosmos? Imagine a series of stories set in a golden era of American life, where worldly troubles are regarded from a distance, if at all. Hear the buzz of playing cards clipped in children’s spokes echo down quiet lanes. Smell the faint aroma of rich tobacco smoke from an old man’s pipe on a shady bou ..."
Starve Better Surviving the Endless Horror of the Writing Life by Nick Mamatas, ChesyaBurke Paperback, 186 Pages, Published 2013 by Apex Book Company ISBN-13: 978-0-9845535-8-7, ISBN: 0-9845535-8-4
"Starve Better makes no promises of making you a bestselling author. It won't feed aspiring writers' dreams of fame and fortune. This book is about survival: how to generate ideas when you needed them yesterday, dialogue and plot on the quick, and what your manuscript is up against in the slush piles of the world. For non-fiction writers, Starve Better offers writing techniques such as how to get (relatively) high-paying assignments in s ..."
""Mama's Boy" is the cornerstone of this 14-story collection from author Fran Friel. A man whose mother's demented love for him has turned him from an innocent boy to a serial killer to a near-comatose mental patient opens his world to a psychologist determined to reach him as a way of dealing with her own mother's battle with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. But is she helping, or is there more damage to be done?
In "Mashed," a son's si ..."
"Featuring all new stories from some of the top authors in modern horror and includes an all new novelette from Edward Lee! This book takes us deep, deep into the bowels of Painfreak, the traveling club that arises out of the dark and calls to those seeking the ultimate in pleasure and pain. If you wear the invisible mark of the bone on your hand then enter through the door. Many come to experience the ultimate in decadence and debauche ..."
"Except they were not gods. They were monsters and they were aliens, but not
gods. The monster in her closet was very specific on that point. Once they were
servants of vastly-powered elder gods and over time came to believe that they
were ..."
"The fourth volume in the critically-acclaimed Chiral Mad Series. 4 short stories, 4 novelettes, 4 novellas, and 4 graphic adaptations make up this mammoth book of wonders. But here's the catch: Every single story in this anthology is a collaboration. Bram Stoker Award winners Michael Bailey and Lucy A. Snyder even co-edited the anthology to bring you an incredibly diverse and entirely collaborative dark fiction experience. Includes a co ..."
"4 short stories, 4 novelettes, 4 novellas, and 4 graphic adaptations make up this mammoth book of wonders, but here's the catch: every single story in this anthology is a collaboration. Bram Stoker Award winners Michael Bailey and Lucy A. Snyder even co-edited the anthology to bring you an incredibly diverse and entirely collaborative dark fiction experience!"
"Cassilda's Song is a collection of weird fiction and horror stories based on the King in Yellow Mythos created by Robert W. Chambers entirely authored by women. There are no pretenders here. The Daughters of the Yellow Sign, each a titan of unmasked fire in their own right, have parted the curtains. From Hali s deeps and Carcosa s gloomy balconies and Styx-black towers, come their lamentations and rage and the consequences of intrigues ..."
"The African American National Biography presents history through a mosaic of the lives of thousands of individuals, illuminating the abiding influence of persons of African descent on the life of this nation from the arrival of Esteban in Spanish Florida in 1529 through to notable black citizens of the present day. Available initially as a handsome eight-volume set containing over 4,000 entries written and signed by distinguished schola ..."
Hero Me Not The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero by Burke, Chesya Paperback, 172 Pages, Published 2023 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-978821-05-7, ISBN: 1-978821-05-0