In the Middle of All this Fire: The Noirledge Anthology of Short Fiction is an elegant tapestry of tales portraying the usual, outlandish, pleasant, sinister and the cryptic. Here, the contributors deftly explore issues of intermutual concerns to spur communal intervention. The stories also delve towards the futuristic, challenging us to actively work together in creating new narratives for the future of our beleaguered continent. While some of the stories might seem unreal at the first encounter, the writers creatively blur the lines between the real and the imagined, creating worlds that are not unlike our daily realities. In the Middle of All this Fire is an expression, or perhaps a reminder of the inimitable creative abilities that abound on the continent and how truth can be relayed in different hues through fiction, told by daring writers across Africa and beyond.