Fair maidens, handsome princes, witches, and fairy godmothers all show their dark and dangerous side in this anthology inspired by myths and fairy tales, retold by some of the best authors in this generation and by some upcoming new talents. Each beautifully crafted story brings an unusual twist to the traditional tale, from Cinderella’s story told from the not-so-kind fairy godmother’s point of view, to the Bluebeard tale showing the lure of this dark and dangerous man that drives young girls to rush willingly to their fate. Foreword by Anna Kashina “A Necklace of Rubies” by Cindy Lynn Speer “Come Lady Death” by Peter S. Beagle; “Summer Wind” by Nancy Kress “Stronger than Time” by Patricia C. Wrede “Words Like Pale Stones” by Nancy Kress “Every Word I Speak” by Cindy Lynn Speer “Remains” by Siobhan Carroll “Frayed Tapestry” by Imogen Howson “The Cold Blackness Between” by Lucy A. Snyder “Solstice Maiden” copyright by Anna Kashina “But Can You Let Him Go” by Cindy Lynn Speer
Authors
Nancy Kress is an American science fiction writer. She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her Hugo and Nebula-winning 1991 novella Beggars in Spain which was later expanded into a novel with the same title. In addition to her novels, Kress has written numerous short stories and is a regular columnist for Writer's Digest. She is a regular at Clarion writing workshops and at The Writers Center in Bethesda, Maryland. During the Winter of 2008/09, Nancy Kress is the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig's Institute for American Studies in Leipzig, Germany. Excerpted from Wikipedia.
Cindy Lynn Speer is the author of several short stories, book reviews, books and interviews. And she finds talking in the third person boring, so... Hello! Let's see, what else is interesting? I write for many reasons...to make people happy, to explore further the worlds in my head (day dreaming can be sloppy...and jumpy. One moment, you're at a stop light, day dreaming about riding dragons, the next moment you're at work, pretending that you're a CSI specializing in filing systems. Not a very disciplined way of seeing stories through to the end.) and to just celebrate the joy of words. My library contains books on ships, chocolate, swords, murder mysteries, folk lore, myth, fantasy and all sorts of things. I am a jackdaw. I love to read about a lot of different things.
