Thank you to harperbooks for the gifted ARC

In this debut short stories collection blending GET OUT and BLACK MIRROR, Key explores race and class in settings spanning the industrial prison complex to hospitals. WASN'T READY focuses on the lives of Black Americans in the near future, combining science fiction, horror, and fantasy.

In The Perfection of Theresa Watkins, a Black widower uses a new technology to download his Black wife's consciousness into a white woman's body. Key explores the ethics of cheating death and getting consent in an extreme power imbalance.

Spider King examines the unexpected consequences when an inmate agrees to an experimental study for early release. There's quite a lot of body horror. For those sensitive to spiders, you might want to skip this one because it gets pretty graphic