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Hags, Sirens, and Other Bad Girls of Fantasy

Denise Little (Editor / Contributor),

C.S. Friedman (Contributor)

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Jun 30, 2010 Christine rated it liked it

Shelves: short-stories, diverse-and-women-authors, fantasy-myth-and-fairy

Is this the best collection of fairy tale retellings? No. The book is about half good and half bad.

Stand out stories include:

"Shall We Dance" by C. S. Friedman. This is story has a very good line about dung. Honest.

"Bitter Fruit" by Rosemary Edgehill. The type of spooky story you have to read twice.

"Band of Sisters" by Allan Rousselle. A nice story about sirens, including the fact that one of them is called Big Lou.

"Dust" by Michael Hiebert. The tooth fairy's revenge. She ain't Dwayne the Rock ...more

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