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We Travel the Spaceways

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Otherworldly interference in real-world New York City? Or delusions? For the answer, follow two loving strangers in an astonishing short story of faith and hope by a World Fantasy Award winner.

Grimace is a homeless man on a holy mission to free Black Americans from emotional slavery. His empty soda cans told him as much. Then he meets Kim, a transgender runaway who joins Grimace on his heroic quest. Is Grimace receiving aluminum missives from the gods, or is he a madman? Kim will find out soon enough on a strange journey they’ve been destined to share.

Victor LaValle’s We Travel the Spaceways is part of Black Stars, a multi-dimensional collection of speculative fiction from Black authors. Each story is a world much like our own. Read or listen to them in a single sitting.

©2021 by Victor LaValle. (P)2021 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. African American Dark Fantasy Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction
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I really want to know the rest of this story! I enjoyed it. I was just getting into it and then it finished.

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This is murky tale not in subject matter, rather in clarity of plot. It's unclear whether this homeless man Grimace is mentally unwell or his irrational ramblings and actions have real meaning and cosmic consequences.

Is the guy who hears from soda cans and bottles, paving the way for mankind's future and reconnection with Gods or is his missions a pyromaniacs delusion.

This blurring of fantasy and reality, purpose and irrelevancy is movingly explained through the lives of those most marginalised: the homeless and sex worker. An interesting read that I could easily have spent more time engrossed with.

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