Ranging from the seventeenth century to our current moment, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives- stories and novellas draw upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, interrogation transcripts, and speculative fiction to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. -An Outtake- chronicles an escaped slave-s take on liberty and the American Revolution; -The Strange History of Our Lady of the Sorrows- presents a bizarre series of events that unfold in a nineteenth-century Kentucky convent; -The Aeronauts- soars between bustling Philadelphia, still-rustic Washington, and the theatre of the US Civil War; -Rivers- presents a free Jim meeting up decades later with his former raftmate Huckleberry Finn; and in -Acrobatique-, the subject of a famous Edgar Degas painting talks back.
