“Stories like thick dreams, stories rainbowing your thoughts into new patterns the way crystals scatter light, stories like diagrams of promises kept or buried, lost or exploded—Tenea’s Broken Fevers collection will fuel your inner truthseeker with beauty, strength, and a calm determination to carry on.”
— Nisi Shawl, author of Everfair
“Tenea Johnson’s new collection, Broken Fevers, is a wide-ranging selection of stories—science fiction, dark fantasy, horror, folk tales and mythologies, country magic—presented in clear, crisp writing, minus all affectation, and electric with undercurrents of politics, feminism, and social justice. For lovers of the short story, don’t miss this powerful voice.”
— Jeffrey Ford, author of A Natural History of Hell
“This collection of stories is unexpected and imaginative, disturbing and poignant. Each tale is a deftly crafted puzzle piece — a snapshot of life and society, where the present is tethered to the past and the future. An incredible read!”
— L. Penelope, author of Song of Blood & Stone
“Tenea D. Johnson is one of the most gifted protest singers of 21st-century speculative fiction. These stories are strong, beautiful music toward a future built by and for the people.”
— Andy Duncan, author of
An Agent of Utopia: New and Selected Stories
“Brutal, lovely and excruciating, Tenea D. Johnson’s Broken Fears is an amazing journey through your deepest fears, sorrow and beautiful pain. And you will appreciate every moment of it.”
— Dr. Chesya Burke, author of Let’s Play White
“Dazzling, gritty and provocative, this collection delivers big on style and speculative ideas. Kidnappers who recreate a Middle Passage experience for their abductees. Immortals who truck with depressed fairies in Harlem. Rebellions from above and below. Loss, joy and the truly strange collide here. These stories are so richly conceived they bring a fever to our imagination. And, best of all is Tenea D. Johnson’s razor-sharp prose.”
— Michele Tracy Berger, author of Reenu-You
