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The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories
2016
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3.80
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"Ladies and Gentlemen: I give you the Kissing Booth Girl! Lips that beguile. Oh, I promise, the nearest thing to nuzzling an angel can be yours—today!—for a shiny round Seated Liberty I know you carry in your very pockets as I speak." But to mechanically-inclined Beni, is the ethereal girl who fell from the sky a wish come true or false hope for life beyond the confines of the odd carnival called home. Her story—as well as tales of an order of deep-sea diving nuns caring for a sunken chapel and a high school boy asked to prom by the only dead kid he's ever met—can be found in A.C. Wise's newest collection of the fantastical, the weird, the queer and the poignant. ​​Table of Contents: "The Poet’s Child" "Juliet & Juliet(te): A Romance of Alternate Worlds "And If the Body Were Not the Soul" "The Pornographer’s Assistant" "The Last Survivor of the Great Sexbot Revolution "For the Removal of Unwanted Guests" "A Mouse Ran Up the Clock" "Evidence of Things Unseen" "After Midnight – A Fairy Tale Noir" "Sisters of the Blessed Diving Order of Saint Peter and Saint Andrew" "The Kissing Booth Girl" "Final Girl Theory" "The Astronaut, Her Lover, the Queen of Faerie, and Their Child" "It’s the End of the World as We Know It"

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A.C. Wise
A.C. Wise
Author · 14 books
A.C. Wise's fiction has appeared in publications such as Uncanny, Shimmer, and Tor.com, among other places. She had two collections published with Lethe Press, and a novella published by Broken Eye Books. Her debut novel, Wendy, Darling, is out from Titan Books n June 2021, and a new collection, The Ghost Sequences, is forthcoming from Undertow Books in October 2021. Her work has won the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, as well as being a two-time Nebula finalist, a two-time Sunburst finalist, an Aurora finalist, and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. In addition to her fiction, she contributes review columns to the Book Smugglers and Apex Magazine, and has been a finalist for the Ignyte Award in the Critics category.
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