InampampnbspImpossible StoriesampampnbspJohn Murillo offers bold new readings of recent and canonical Black creative works within an Afropessimistic framework to excavate how time space and blackness intersector rather crash. Building on Michelle Wrights ideas about dislocation from time and space as constitutive to being Black in America as well as on W. E. B. DuBoiss theories of temporalization he reconsiders the connections between physical phenomena and principles literature history and the fragmented nature of Black time and space.ampampnbsp Taking as his lens the fragmentfragmented bodies fragments of memories fragments of textsMurillo theorizes new directions for Black identity and cultural production. Combining a critical engagement of physics and metaphysics with innovative readings of Gayl JonessampampnbspCorregidora Octavia ButlersampampnbspKindred Toni MorrisonsampampnbspBeloved Kiese LaymonsampampnbspLong Division Dionne BrandsampampnbspA Map to the Door of No Returnampampnbspand Paul BeattysampampnbspThe Sellout he offers new ways to think about antiBlack racism andampampnbsppractice Black creativity. Ultimately in his equally creative and analytical responses to depictions of Black people left out of history and barred from spaces Murillo argues that through Afropessimism Black people can fight the antiBlack cosmos. ampampnbsp