Strange Little Girls are made of sugar and spice, and something not quite as nice... The strange little girls are orphans and changelings, suburban princesses, housewives, nuns and monsters. They are quirky and sweet, terrifying and heartbreaking. All of them a little lost, brimming with their own uniqueness. In this strange little book of nineteen tales, Lotte goes swimming with her new fishy friends, Rin is freshly dug up, D'arcy strikes a bargain with the midnight mailman and Adelaide enters the mysterious House of Infinite Diversions. Our girls must fasten their bonnets and straighten their skirts to battle otherworldly dangers and challenging circumstances, internal struggles and doubts – and maybe find out who they really are. Edited by Camilla Bruce and Liv Lingborn. Table of Contents: Fairy Tale Ending by Terra LeMay Deep Down by Tim Jeffreys The Cottage of Curiosities by Annie Neugebauer Black Flower Butterfly by Rich Hawkins Beehive Heart by Angela Rega Annabelle’s Sleepover by Jan Stinchcomb Bones in Boxes by Frances Pauli Marco Polo by Calypso Kane Teeth Bite Harder in the Dark by Sierra July Sisters in the Art of Dying by Megan Neumann The Empty Birdcage by L. Lark Cedar Lake by Ekaterina Sedia Pinhole by Tantra Bensko From Strangers by Ephiny Gale D’arcy Gray and the Midnight Mailman by Ian MacAllister-McDonald Pretty Jennie Greenteeth by Leife Shallcross Where Summer Ends by Colette Aburime We Have Always Lived in the Subdivision by Karen Munro House of Infinite Diversions by Aliya Whiteley
Authors
Multi-gold medal winning novelist living in California. My contemporary psychological suspense series is The Agents of the Nevermind. The intelligence agents manage cults, secret societies, propaganda, false flags, hypnosis, mind control, occult and paranormal movements, media theater, entertainment, blackmail, murder. Their social engineering forms public opinion and behaviors. Can they be outwitted? Even when the protagonists are under their influence? I edit manuscripts with Book Butchers. I teach fiction writing through UCLA X Writing Program, Writers.com, and my Online Writing Academy. I have a couple hundred stories in magazines and anthologies, an MA from FSU and MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Since Goodreads says the Youtube videos are invalid for some reason, here are the trailers for the novels: Glossolalia: Psychological Suspense https://youtu.be/B1dlvUgiFL4 Remember to Recycle: Psychological Suspense https://youtu.be/t5ZynXe1pys
Frances Pauli writes books about animals, hybrids, aliens, shifters, and occasionally ordinary humans. She tends to cross genre boundaries, but hovers around fantasy and science fiction with romantic tendencies. Her work has won four Leo awards, two Coyotl awards, and has been nominated for an Ursa Major award. She lives in Washington State with her family, a small menagerie, and far too many houseplants.
Ephiny Gale was born in Victoria, Australia, and is still there, alongside her lovely wife and a small legion of bookcases. She is the author of more than fifty published short stories and novelettes, which have appeared in publications including PseudoPod, Constellary Tales, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Her stories have won the Best of the Net award for fiction and have been finalists for multiple Aurealis Awards. She has also written several produced stage plays and musicals, including the sold-out How to Direct from Inside at La Mama and Shining Armour at The 1812 Theatre. Her script Time Scraps was a finalist in St Martin’s National Playwriting Competition, and Hearts up Sleeves won the Five Minute Play award at Dante’s. When not writing, Ephiny currently works as a Senior Project Manager for a website development company. Her previous roles have included: Executive Assistant; coordinating a major arts festival; Association Secretary for the Green Room Awards (Melbourne’s premier performing arts awards); nine months as a professional wedding DJ; and working as an executive of a university student association. Ephiny has a Masters in Arts Management, a red belt in taekwondo, and a passion for psychology, gaming, and storytelling in all its forms. She also especially enjoys Italian greyhounds, playing board games with friends, and eating raspberries in the sunshine.
Colette Aburime is a 20-something creative writing and professional writing graduate from the University of Wisconsin - River Falls. She is the founder of writingwithcolor, a writing advice blog focused on diversity. When not found frolicking through the woods somewhere in Minnesota chasing after her latest bit of inspiration, Colette works on moderating her blog and cooking up concoctions that make her friends and family drool.
