@booklet {10282, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Referendum{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {178-90}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A referendum is being held to repeal the thirteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution that abolished slavery.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Female author, Nigerian author, US author}, author = {Lesley Nneka Arimah (b. 1983)}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10252, title = {"Skinned"}, howpublished = {McSweeney{\textquoteright}s Quarterly Concern}, volume = {no. 53}, year = {2018}, month = {2018}, pages = {61-82}, abstract = {

Dystopia set in an unnamed African country in which women past puberty are expected, based on religion and tradition, to wear no clothes until they are married. Most do, and the story is told from the perspective of an older, never married woman.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Female author, Nigerian author, US author}, author = {Lesley Nneka Arimah (b. 1983)} } @booklet {10232, title = {{\textquotedblleft}What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Catapult Magazine}, year = {2015}, note = {

Rpt. in her What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky (New York: Riverhead Books, 2017), 151-74.\ 

}, month = {2015}, abstract = {

The setting for the story is a climate-change dystopia in which most of Europe and North America are under water, and the European powers have re-colonized Africa, with the French slaughtering the Senegalese and the British establishing a caste system in Nigeria.\ For a story set in the same future, see Edwin Okolo, \“When the Levees Break.\” Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa. Ed. Rachel Zadok, Karina Magdalena Szczurek, and Jason Mykl Snyman (Np: Short Story Day Africa, 2021), 213-26.

}, keywords = {English author, Female author, Nigerian author, US author}, url = {https://catapult.co/stories/some-mathematicians-remove-pain-some-of-us-deal-in-negative-emotions-we-all-fix-the-equation-of-a-person}, author = {Lesley Nneka Arimah (b. 1983)} }