From humor to horror the speculative fiction in Broken Fevers has a gleaming edge. This new collection by award winner Tenea D. Johnson features 14 tales. Though many are dark they pull one through the light if only for a moment to visit the next vista a new world or this one recast in an uncertain future. Whether it be the lengths a woman will go to for performance art or how best to communicate the Middle Passages horrors to the privileged darkness has room to breathe here and bring wonder. So