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From hags and harpies to sorceresses and sirens, this volume features twenty all-new tales that prove women are far from the weaker sex-in all their alluring, magical, and monstrous roles.
This book was quite entertaining, and most of the stories were strong. These short stories were a great twist to the old myths - ranging from funny, to mildy chilling, to downright silly. Definitely a great light read! ( )
Out of 20 short stories, only three didn't induce nausea or boredom. Rosemary Edghill's "Bitter Fruit: A Tale of Crownland" was a grown up and viscerally disturbing story about a woman who seeks justice. Scott William Carpenter's "Heart of Stone," in which a calculating Medusa experiments with what permutation of love will set her free of her killing curse. And Michael Hiebert's "Dust" is a slightly trippy look at a tooth-fairy accidentally bound to the will of a vapid human child. The rest are banal, trite and dull re-tellings of all the usual tales. Cinderella's "evil" stepmother tells her tale. A Valkerie falls in love with a mortal soldier and begs Odin to let her live a "real life," which apparently means a wedding and babies. Morgan le Fey's oh so selfless desire to save Britain. On and on and on, one uninspired plodding story after another. These are the worst kind of pseudo-feminist revisionist fantasy. ( )
This book wasn’t too thrilling. It had lots of short stories, which can be fun to read, but once again it seems as if these people have no editors. One story even had the main characters name spelled wrong for several pages, right in the middle of the story, after which the author went back to the original spelling. Another story had a then where it should have had a than (this, to me, is an incredibly annoying error).
This book had one redeeming story, Dust, about the tooth fairy, how she was hooked on fairy dust, and how she sledgehammered teeth out of a young girl after she learned the fairy’s true name and kept calling on her. Funny stuff. ( )
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Bad girls have more fun. (Introduction)
I never talk about her except when I'm drinking. (Shall We Dance?)
"Help me Lawgiver, please!" (Bitter Fruit: A Tale of Crownland)
"Isis, what secret did Ra give to you?" (The Light of Ra)
I know exactly what I'm doing on a May afternoon like this with the failing light shining down on me: reading the pattern of the scattered clouds in the blue of the sky, recognizing signs in the angle of stones, in the way wind parts brush and grass. (Time and Memory)
The narrow stairwell wound up inside a corner tower of the old Roman fort, a passageway lit by fat-burning torches guttering in the draft and a thin fall of gray light from above. (Sisters of the Blade)
The way up the mountain path had not seemed so steep the year Medea arrived in this land. (To Ride the Serpent Once More)
Eve wasn't first. (Lilith)
Hera remembered beauty. (Homeless)
They say that history is written by the victors. (Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth)
She first heard the movement in the hallway, a sound like a mouse in a wall. (Tsonoqua)
Erda glared through her kitchen window at the moon, plumply full. (Banished)
Soul Taker. (Soul Taker)
She had been with Thomas a year when he told her he might be able to see again. (Heart of Stone)
The cat's throat was slit, the deed done within the hour, as the blood was still wet and glimmering in the late afternoon sun. (Black Annie)
It all began with the ambition of a single man, but then again, doesn't it always? (The Amphora)
A soft spattering of notes; piano strings plucked with the hammers held back. (Dust)
On the night her life would change forever, Odin's horn wakened Vaya from a peaceful sleep. (The Last Ride)
So, okay, Clarisse Mayhew - of, like, the Newport Beach Mayhews - had asked me to help plan the decorations for the Greek Week Ball. (Greek to Me)
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A breeze came through the throne room's open walls behind the great chairs, and I straightened and looked over the whole of Egypt, a golden centerpiece, bathed in the light of Ra. (The Light of Ra)
It proved a beautiful thought to stroll by as she moved slowly up the street, abiding somewhat better the neatly tended grass and hedges of this new Eden. (Lilith)
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Short stories in anthology:
Introduction by Denise Little
Shall We Dance? by C.S. Friedman Bitter Fruit: A Tale of Crownland by Rosemary Edghill Light of Ra by Phaedra M. Weldon Time and Memory by Leslie Claire Walker Band of Sisters by Allan Rousselle Mother of Monsters by Greg Beatty Sisters of the Blade by Loren L. Coleman To Ride the Serpent Once More by Terry Hayman Lilith by Peter Orullian Homeless by Annie Reed Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth by Christina F. York Tsonoqua by Nathaniel Poole Banished by Jane Toombs Soul Taker by Lisa Silverthorne Heart of Stone by Scott William Carter Black Annie by Jean Rabe Amphora by Steven Mohan, Jr. Dust by Michael Hiebert Last Ride by Douglas Smith Greek to Me by Laura Resnick.
From hags and harpies to sorceresses and sirens, this volume features twenty all-new tales that prove women are far from the weaker sex-in all their alluring, magical, and monstrous roles.
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