Weird Black Girls Stories
Weird Black Girls Stories by Elwin Cotman, published by Simon and Schuster on April 16, 2024, is a collection of 320 pages that delves into the complexities of living while Black through a blend of literary and fantastical elements. This work features seven stories that explore various themes, including friendship, love, and betrayal, set against a backdrop of surreal and often unnerving circumstances.
Readers will encounter a range of characters navigating their obsessions and the consequences that arise from them, as they confront realities that twist and warp around them. The stories include a rural town under the influence of a punishing tree, old friends facing their shared history, and a day of LARPing that takes an unexpected turn. With a tone that balances whimsy and horror, Cotman’s narratives challenge and entertain, revealing deeper truths about the human experience within the framework of science fiction and literary fiction.
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Finalist for the Locus Award
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From Philip K. Dick Award finalist Elwin Cotman, an irresistibly unnerving collection of stories that explore the anxieties of living while Black—a high-wire act of literary-fantastical hybrid fiction.
A rural town finds itself under the authoritarian sway of a tree that punishes children. A pair of old friends navigate their fraught history as strange happenings escalate in a Mexican restaurant. A pair of narcissistic friends wreak havoc on an activist community. An aloof young man finds himself living through his lover’s memories. And a day of LARPing takes a cosmic turn.
In each of the seven stories in this collection, characters pursue their obsessions on paths to glory and destruction while around them their worlds twist and warp, oscillating between reality and impossibility. On display throughout is Cotman’s ability to reveal truths about the human experience—about friendship, love, betrayal, bitterness—through whimsy, horror, and fantasy. Elegiac in tone, imaginative and humorous in their execution, the character-driven stories in Weird Black Girls challenge, incite, and entertain.
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