These short stories were written in 2017, with a much-needed prophetic voice in the undergirding racism that continues to plague America. For the record, the stories are vast and could happen anywhere in the world. Each story contains a hero. Some heroes are more jaded than others, and yet the more they’ve been mired in the muck of life the easier it is to identify with their struggle. Blackburn has some hidden, one-liner gems and if you read too fast you’ll easily miss it.
Here are a few of the one-liners in the book:
“Big uncle’s obsession with the apocalypse wasn’t about how the world stops, but how it starts again.”

“Pastor Short had a degree in dark spirits. Pastor Short was the dark spirit whisperer.”

“The two passed by the pair of bouncers like ladybugs over elephants.”

“Most whores had honor, but the average crack-whore will rob you blind and blow your Rottweiler for a five dollar fix.”

There are more. I promise.
This was a review copy provided by NetGalley given for an honest review

I feel really bad about not finishing this but I did not get along with the first couple of stories in this collection. I am super fickle when it comes to short stories. I requested this soley based on the title (and my love for short story collections) and still think that the title is just genius.

This story collection was truly a literary feast for all my senses! Vernita Blackburn manages to delve into both the maudlin and the mesmerising with such unbridled imagination!

Eh. I wanted to like this one, but I found the stories to be confusing and hard to follow. While stories do not always have to have a beginning-middle-end structure, it seemed that these were just randomly excerpted moments and not something coherently put together.