The Seers Table!

Linda Addison, Member of the Diverse Works Inclusion Community

April 27th is Tell a Story Day. Check out stories told by the following creators! Kate Maruyama recommends: Daughter to a U.S. Army father, K. Ceres Wright has lived in Anchorage, AK; Chicago, IL; Baltimore, MD; Frankfurt, Oberursel, and Munich, Germany; Seoul, Korea; and the Washington Metropolitan Area. She attended undergraduate school at the University of Maryland, College Park, with a double major in economics and finance, then worked for ten years as a credit and treasury analyst before deciding to change careers. Wright received her Master’s degree in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University in Greensburg, PA, and Cog was her thesis novel for the program. Wright’s science fiction poem, “Doomed,” was a nominee for the Rhysling Award, the Science Fiction Poetry Assn.’s highest honor. Her work has appeared in Hazard Yet Forward; Genesis: An Anthology of Black Science Fiction; Many Genres, One Craft; Far Worlds; Diner Stories; The Dark God’s Gift; FictionVale’s Pick Your Punk (February 2015), and The 2008 Rhysling Anthology. Her story, “Of Sound Mind and Body,” appears in the brand new anthology Sycorax’s Daughter (Cedar Grove Publishing). Visit her Web site at http://www.kcereswright.com and find her on Twitter @KCeresWright. Steven Barnes is an American science fiction writer, lecturer, creative consultant, and human performance technician. Barnes has written dozens with books alone and in collaboration with his wife, Tananarive Due (highlighted in Seer’s Table, May 2016). Barnes has written several episodes of THE OUTER LIMITS and BAYWATCH. He is a Hugo Award Nominee. His new book, 12 Days, is upcoming from MacMillan this June: “Around the world, leaders and notorious criminals alike are mysteriously dying. A terrorist group promises a series of deaths within two months. And against the backdrop of the apocalypse, the lives of a small shattered family and a broken soldier are transformed in the bustling city of Atlanta.” You can read more about his work here:  https://stevenbarneslife.wordpress.com/. Lauren Candia recommends: Mariana Enriquez is an Argentine journalist, novelist, and short story writer. Enriquez holds a degree in Journalism and Social Communication from the National University of La Plata. She works as a journalist and is the deputy editor of the arts and culture section of the newspaper Página/12. She has published the novels: Bajar es lo peor (Espasa Calpe, 1995) and Cómo desaparecer completamente (Emecé, 2004). She has also written the short story book Los peligros de fumar en la cama (Emecé, 2009) and the novelette Chicos que vuelven (Eduvim, 2010). Her stories have appeared in anthologies of Spain, Mexico, Chile, Bolivia, and Germany. I am suggesting her book of short stories, Things We Lost in the Fire, which has been translated into English. An arresting collection of short stories, reminiscent of Shirley Jackson and Julio Cortazar, by an exciting new international talent. Macabre, disturbing, and exhilarating, Things We Lost in the Fire is a collection of short stories that use fear and horror to explore multiple dimensions of life in contemporary Argentina. From women who set themselves on fire in protest of domestic violence; to angst-ridden teenage girls, friends until death do they part; from street kids and social workers, young women bored of their husbands or boyfriends, to a nine-year-old serial killer of babies; and from a girl who pulls out her nails and eyelids in the classroom, to hikikomori, abandoned houses, black magic, northern Argentinean superstition, disappearances, crushes, heartbreak, regret, and compassion, this is a strange, surreal, and unforgettable collection that asks vital questions of the world as we know it. Linda Addison recommends: Kenya Moss-Dyme began writing short-form horror in her teens and won several scholastic writing awards for her creative work. Prey for Me—the hard-hitting story of a monstrous child-abusing preacher—was her first published work in early 2014, followed by the dark romance, A Good Wife. She continued creating work in the horror genre with the Halloween 2014 release of Daymares, and her 2017 release of The Mixtape (Special Edition) is a collection of seven Web-only dark tales which opens with “Dead to Me,” where in an upscale neighborhood, a woman wages a lonely battle against the undead. Kenya is also Editor for Forever Vacancy anthology, the first book presented by Colors in Darkness, the online site for dark fiction authors of color. The anthology contains her story, “Roost.” Read more at https://www.kenyamossdyme.com; E-mail: kenya.mossdyme@yahoo.com. Sheree Renée Thomas is the first African American to win the World Fantasy Award (2001, 2005) for editing the Dark Matter anthologies. Her stories and poems appear in journals and anthologies, including Callaloo, Jalada, Memphis Noir, Mojo: Conjure Stories, So Long Been Dreaming, Stories for Chip, Strange Horizons, and Transition. Thomas is the author of Shotgun Lullabies (Aqueduct Press, 2011); her new mixed genre book is Sleeping Under the Tree of Life (August 2016). Catch her story, “Tree of the Forest Seven Bells Turns the World Round Midnight,” in the anthology Sycorax’s Daughters (Cedar Grove Publishing, 2017). She was born in Memphis. You can contact her at Wanganegresse@yahoo.com; FaceBook: shereerenee.thomas; Twitter: @blackpotmojo.