A collection of short stories and poetry from bestselling author adrienne maree brown! We started this project some time ago, seeing how strong the online love was for adrienne’s poetry (sometimes presented as “spells” or “directives”) and fiction. Her story “The River,” in Octavia’s Brood, has received far more reprint requests than the entire rest of that collection. This clued us in to just how hungry people are for more. All the poems and six of the stories have been published before—the poems largely online and the stories (other than “The River”) in indie publications with small circulations. Nine of the stories are brand new. This book represents a new branch in the tree of the Emergent Strategy series that sees fiction and poetry as tools for envisioning and building new worlds.