Short stories published in Sycorax's Daughters

Listing 11 stories.

Andrea's happy college life is disrupted when a strange, eerie figure begins stalking her.

A girl is taken by the spirited of death, Letty, but not before she hears the horrific story of Letty's death at the hands of a white man.

A Trinidadian woman cursed with a cow's hoof as a foot gets joy from murdering men, but when she kills a woman disguised as a man, her curse spreads to its next victim.

A Black female spy has the ability to physically transform into whoever she wants, but her mental shifts are proving to be much more difficult. While on an assignment in China, she begins to crack under the pressure, leading to disastrous results.

A woman must choose between her landlubber life and the path her sister and mother chose, as mermaids.

A Black poet living in an old plantation house struggles to maintain control of her mind by writing the stories of her ancestors. When one of those ancestors begins possessing her and forcing her to kill as punishment, she must choose between continuing to document their stories or being silenced forever.

Two lovers share their passions and dreams, dancing toward the edge of a cliff by the sea - and perhaps over it.

When a neglected and lonely girl is approached by an illusion-making creature looking for an apprentice, she experiments with her newfound powers and makes a perfect version of herself. She quickly finds out that perfection isn't all it's cracked up to be and searches for a way to end the illusion.

After returning from her deployment overseas, a young woman, originally from Seattle, visits her family down in Alabama. Despite numerous warnings, the young woman finds herself traveling alone at night, except she isn't alone at all - she's with all the monsters she was warned about.

Left conquered and disappointed from her past relationship, a girl addresses her selfish lover who had sexually used her. The girl compares the boy to a vampire and speaks about how he has left her like an empty shell craving love and blood just like he was when he first approached her.