Short stories by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH is the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black. Originally from Spring Valley, New York, he graduated from SUNY Albany and went on to receive his MFA from Syracuse University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming from numerous publications, including the New York Times Book Review, Esquire, Literary Hub, the Paris Review, Guernica, and Longreads. He was selected by Colson Whitehead as one of the National Book Foundation's “5 Under 35” honorees, is the winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for Best First Book and the Aspen Words Literary Prize.
Listing 3 stories.
In a dystopian world, a student begins to spiral after he becomes dependent on the drug called "Good" that everyone is injected with daily. Faced with the cruelty of his family and friends, he befriends a strange girl whose family rejects the new societal mechanisms —which may be just what he needs.
Just when she had thought she had seen everything, a girl living in suburban America begins to dream of her mother while trapped in an infinite loop at the neverending end of the world.
"Zimmer Land" is a theme park that lets adults explore themes of justice and crisis management through live role-playing simulations, such as foiling a terrorist plot to bomb a train. A young black employee of the park begins to think something is amiss when some of the patrons come back again and again just to "kill" him.