Kiini Salaam - Ancient, Ancient

Tumbarumba is a 2008 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with funding from the Jerome Foundation.

Debris: First published in Ideomancer , 2006, Volume 6, Issue 1, Twenty-three Small Disasters , http://www.ideomancer.com/main/vol6issue1/rosenbaum_et_al/debris.html

Desire: First published in Dark Matter: Reading the Bones, 2004, edited by Sheree R. Thomas, Warner Books

Ferret: First published in Infinite Matrix , 2003, edited by Eileen Gunn, http://www.infinitematrix.net/stories/shorts/ferret.html,

K-USH: The Legend of the Last Wero: First published in FEMSPEC , 2005, Volume 6, Issue 1, edited by Batya Weinbaum

MalKai’s Last Seduction: First published in Dark Eros: Black Erotic Writings, 1997, edited by Reginald Martin, St. Martin’s Press

Of Wings, Nectar, & Ancestors: First published in Fertile Ground: Memories & Visions , 1996, edited by Kalamu ya Salaam and Kysha N. Brown, Runagate Press

Rosamojo: First published in Mojo: Conjure Storie s, 2003, edited by Nalo Hopkinson, Warner Books

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This book is fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Print Copyright © 2012 Kiini Ibura Salaam

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Digital ISBN: 978-1-61976-010-3

Cover Design by Nneka Bennett

Cover Illustration, “Woman in the Sea,” courtesy Niko Guido

Book Design by Kathryn Wilham