First Lines of Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's "Friday Black"

 "Fela, the headless girl, walked towards Emmanuel. Her neck jagged with red savagery. She was silent, but he could feel her waiting for him to do something, anything." 

- Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black, the story "The Finkelstein 5"

A powerful collection of near-future stories that feel like they honestly extrapolate current trends to their logical conclusions. My favorites so far are "The Finkelstein 5" which shows one possible outlet for minority anger after years and years of blatant injustice; "Friday Black" a picture of a consumerist dystopia from the point of view of a sales clerk, and "Zimmer Land" with powerful questions of the implications of virtual outlets for immoral urges. Most of these go over the top - in a good way.