by Jeff Reynolds
When I was eight, I wrote my first short story. It was bad, as the writing of an eight-year-old tends to be, full of tropes and endless misspellings. It long ago disappeared into the trash bin of my personal history. But my teacher gave me an A on the work, and I was hooked.
Ilarians must all work together to have any hope of surviving. When Gypsum, the sixth of seven sisters, joins a group known for its sexual promiscuity and playful ways, she must coax them into becoming life-saving warriors of a very different kind.
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki is a Nigerian SFF writer & editor. He won the Otherwise, Nommo & BFA & was a finalist in the Nebula, Locus, BSFA & Sturgeon awards. He edited Dominion & the first ever Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction anthology
