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• ix • Introduction (Dark Matter: Reading the Bones) • essay by
  Sheree Renée Thomas^?Sheree Renee Thomas
  [as by Sheree R. Thomas]
• 1 • Ibo Landing • (1998) • short story by Ihsan Bracy
• 7 • The Quality of Sand • short story by Cherene Sherrard
• 24 • Yahimba's Choice • [Dossouye] • short story by Charles R. Saunders
• 47 • The Glass Bottle Trick • (2000) • short story by Nalo Hopkinson
• 61 • Desire • short story by Kiini Ibura Salaam
• 78 • Recovery from a Fall • short story by David Findlay
• 89 • Anansi Meets Peter Parker at the Taco Bell on Lexington • (2000) • short story by Douglas Kearney
• 91 • The Magical Negro • short story by Nnedi Okorafor [as by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu]
• 95 • Jesus Christ in Texas • (1911) • short story by W. E. B. Du Bois
• 105 • Will the Circle Be Unbroken? • (1974) • short story by Henry Dumas
• 111 • 'Cause Harlem Needs Heroes • short story by Kevin Brockenbrough
• 126 • Whipping Boy • short story by Pam Noles
• 150 • Old Flesh Song • short story by Ibi Zoboi [as by Ibi Aanu Zoboi]
• 162 • Whispers in the Dark • (2001) • novelette by Walter Mosley
• 183 • Aftermoon • short story by Tananarive Due
• 197 • Voodoo Vincent and the Astrostoriograms • short story by Tyehimba Jess
• 214 • The Binary • short story by John Cooley
• 232 • BLACKout • short story by Jill Robinson
• 243 • Sweet Dreams • short story by Charles Johnson
• 249 • Buying Primo Time • short story by Wanda Coleman
• 256 • Corona • (1967) • short story by Samuel R. Delany
• 276 • Maggies • short story by Nisi Shawl
• 294 • Excerpt from Mindscape • short story by Andrea Hairston
• 314 • Trance • short story by Kalamu ya Salaam
• 349 • The Second Law of Thermodynamics • essay by Jewelle Gomez
• 369 • Her Pen Could Fly: Remembering Virginia Hamilton • essay by Nnedi Okorafor [as by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu]
• 375 • Celebrating the Alien: The Politics of Race and Species in the Juveniles of Andre Norton • essay by Carol Cooper