The stories collected in Nine Bar Blues weave emotion, spirit, and music, captivating readers with newfound alchemy and the murmurs of dark gods. Rooted in rhythm, threaded with magic, these tales encompass worlds that begin in river bottoms, pass through spectral gates, and end in distant uncharted worlds. These stories describe the pain that often accompanies the confines of sanctuary and the joy that is inextricably bound to the troubles of hard living. Nine Bar Blues sings a multiverse of fully realized worlds that readers will remember for ages to come and cherish from page to heart thumping, foot-stomping page.
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Sheree Renée Thomas. Nine Bar Blues
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STORIES
ANCESTRIES
THIRTEEN YEAR LONG SONG
AUNT DISSY’S POLICY DREAM BOOK
NIGHTFLIGHT
RIVER CLAP YOUR HANDS. Night
Rain
Wine
Bridges
Hunger
Hearts
Loss
Pain
Air
Silence
Thirst
STARS COME DOWN
CHILD’S PLAY
HEAD STATIC. 1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
THE PARTS THAT MAKE US MONSTERS
THE DRAGON CAN’T DANCE
WHO NEEDS THE STARS IF THE FULL MOON LOVES YOU?
310 LUCY
SHANEQUA’S BLUES—OR ANOTHER SHOTGUN LULLABY
Sound Advice
Up Jumped the Devil
Another Shotgun Lullaby
MADAME & THE MAP A JOURNEY IN FIVE MOVEMENTS. Madame’s Map
Mama’s Mojo
Scalawag’s Scuffle
Stone Telling
River’s Reply
Madame’s Map
Mama’s Mojo
Scalawag’s Scuffle
Stone Telling
River’s Reply
TEDDY BUMP
ORIGINS OF SOUTHERN SPIRIT MUSIC
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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“Sheree Renée Thomas gives us a whirlpool of poem and story, a ‘wild and strangeful breed’ of cosmology that maps each star from Machu Picchu to Congo Square, from Legba to Medusa.”
—Tyehimba Jess, author of Olio, winner 2017 Pulitzer Prize
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They think I don’t hear them, here under the water, that I don’t know what they are doing, from here in the sea. But I do.
I wanted Yera to fight back, to curse me, to make me forget even the sound of my own name. I am unaccustomed to this Yera. This silent, still one.
