Introduction xi MEMBAH ``What the Periwinkle Remember 3(20) Marcia Douglas ``Yurokon 23(16) Wilson Harris ``Spurn Babylon 39(14) Tobias S. Buckell SCIENCE ``Just a Lark (or the Crypt of Matthew Ashdown) 53(30) Roger McTair ``Tears for Ersulie Freda: Men without Shadow 83(14) Claude-Michel Prevost BLOOD THICKER MORE THAN WATER ``The Village Cock 97(16) H. Nigel Thomas ``Shadows Move in the Britannia Bar 113(12) Ismith Khan ``My Mother 125(10) Jamaica Kincaid THE BROAD DUTTY WATER ``Mad Fish 135(12) Olive Senior ``Widows Walk 147(24) Opal Palmer Adisa ``Once on the Shores of the Stream Senegambia 171(26) Pamela Mordecai CRICK CRACK ``In the Beginning 197(4) Lillian Allen ``Uncle Obadiah and the Alien 201(10) Geoffrey Philp ``My Grandmothers Tale of the Buried Treasure and How She Defeated the King of Chacachacari and the Entire American Army wit her Venus-Flytraps 211(30) Robert Antoni ``Pot O Rice Horowitzs House of Solace 241(16) Ian McDonald DOWN INSIDE THE CHUTE ``Glass Bottle Trick 257(16) Nalo Hopkinson ``Buried Statues 273(16) Antonio Benitez-Rojo ``Soma 289(10) Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar DREAM ``My Funny Valentine 299(4) Kamau Brathwaite ``Devil Beads 303(6) marina ama omowale maxwell Contributors Notes 309(8) Acknowledgments 317
