Okorafor's short stories have been published in books and magazines, including "Dark Matter: Reading The Bones", "Strange Horizons", "Moondance" magazine, and "Writers of the Future" Volume XVIII. A collection of her stories, called "Kabu Kabu", was published by Prime Books in 2013. It includes the story "Kabu Kabu" that she wrote with Alan Dean Foster. Whoopi Goldberg wrote the foreword to the book.