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'This volume collects 28 stories by Lee Battersby, Deborah Biancotti, Trudi Canavan, Robert G. Cook, Rowena Cory Daniells, Terry Dowling, Thoraiya Dyer, Marion Halligan, Dmetri Kakmi, David Kernot, Margo Lanagan, S.G. Larner, Martin Livings, Kirstyn McDermott, Claire McKenna, C.S. McMullen, Juliet Marillier, David Thomas Moore, Faith Mudge, Ryan O'Neill, Angela Rega, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Nicky Rowlands, Carol Ryles, Angela Slatter, Anna Tambour, Kaaron Warren, and Janeen Webb.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Contents
- Disciple of the Torrent, single work short story fantasy
- All the Lost Ones, single work short story fantasy
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Camp Follower,
single work
short story
fantasy
A disillusioned solider comes to harbour worrying suspicions about the camp follower in his tent.
- Glasskin, single work short story fantasy
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The Ways of the Wyrding Women,
single work
short story
fantasy
'A world in which some girls are marked at birth with the Wyrding sign. The Warlord’s sons took the narrator captive in a raid and call her Sun-Fire because she won’t give them her true name. Now they want to force her unborn child to carry the dead Warlord’s soul, and the ancient Wyrding Woman of the Warlord’s clan is too powerful for her to overcome. She vows to resist. Yet she can’t resist the lure of the knowledge that the old woman offers her' (Lois Tilton, Locus Online).
- The Sleepover, single work short story horror
- After Hours, single work short story fantasy
- A Castle in Toorak, single work short story
- The Boy by the Gate, single work short story horror
- Harry’s Dead Poodle, single work short story horror
- Black Swan Event, single work short story
- Poppies, single work short story science fiction
- La Mort D’un Roturer, single work short story horror
- Caution : Contains Small Parts, single work short story horror
- The Ninety Two, single work short story fantasy horror
- The Nest, single work short story fantasy horror
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By Bone-Light,
single work
short story
fantasy
A modern re-telling of the Russian folktale 'Vasilisa the Wise' (a variant of 'The Frog Princess' tale).
- Old Souls, single work short story horror
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The Oblivion Box,
single work
short story
fantasy
'Shaya is imprisoned in a supernatural dungeon. Gradually we learn who Shaya is and how she came to be imprisoned through her developing relationship with her gaoler' (Nalini Haynes, Dark Matter).
- Sticks and Stones, single work short story fantasy horror
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Awards
- 2015 shortlisted Ditmar Awards — Best Collected Work