Jackalope Wives and Other Stories

Posted on 05 October 2017 by T. Kingfisher

Winner of the Nebula and WSFA Short Fiction Awards From award winning author T Kingfisher comes a collection of short stories, including Jackalope Wives, The Tomato Thief, Pocosin, and many others By turns funny, lyrical, angry and beautiful, this anthology includes two all new stories, Origin Story and Let Pass The Horses Black, appearing for the first time in print. Free Download Jackalope Wives and Other Stories [ by ] T. Kingfisher [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Goodread and its librarians, in their infinite wisdom, have been deleting the stand alone review spaces for short fiction, thus disappearing many of my reviews into the ether, including several of my favorite T Kingfisher Ursula Vernon stories ETA it seems that most of my short fiction reviews are actually still around under the guise of titles like Apex Issue 56 Better than nothing Luckily most of my Vernon Kingfisher reviews are also posted over at Fantasy Literature, so I m reposting s Goodread and its librarians, in their infinite wisdom, have been deleting the stand alone review spaces for short fiction, thus disappearing many of my reviews into the ether, including several of my favorite T Kingfisher Ursula Vernon stories ETA it seems that most of my short fiction reviews are actually still around under the guise of titles like Apex Issue 56 Better than nothing Luckily most of my Vernon Kingfisher reviews are also posted over at Fantasy Literature, so I m reposting some of my reviews here I haven t read all of Vernon s Kingfisher s stories in this collection, but I ve read many of them free online links to several of the stories are below The stars of this collection are Jackalope Wives and its sequel novelette, ...I d saved this up for airplane reading, for which it served admirably well The collection includes a couple of award contenders, some truly creepy horror shorts Razorback , I m looking at you, with one eye shut , and a sly take on Tam Lin, but my favorite was the mild plotted That Time with Bob and the Unicorn , for the utterly charming voice of the first person narrator, Dr Williams, a retired Southern physician tussling with modernity as are we all from some unnamed, quirky smallish tow I d saved this up for airplane reading, for which it served admirably well The collection includes a couple of award contenders, some truly creepy horror shorts Razorback , I m looking at you, with one eye shut , and a sly take on Tam Lin, but my favorite was the mild plotted That Time with Bob and the Unicorn , for the utterly charming voice of the first person narrator, Dr Williams, a retired Southern physician tussling with m...Jesus, Mary, and Joseph she said, when she d run out of swear words and turned back to religion This ain t funny any She stomped down and found a nearly ripe tomato, which she yanked off the vine and took inside It sat on the counter A day or two and it would be almost as good as the others Almost She was angry now at herself as well as the thief Falling asleep when she was supposed to be standing guard what was that Was she really that doddering an old woman Not tonight, she Jesus, Mary, and Joseph she said, when she d run out of swear words and turned back to religion This ain t funny any She stomped down and found a nearly ripe tomato, which she yanked off the vine and took inside It sat on the counter A day or two and it would be almost as good as the others Almost She was angry now at herself as well as the thief Falling asleep when she was supposed to be standing guard what was that Was she really that doddering an old woman Not tonight, she said grimly Not tonight She watered the garden by hand and did the laundry, just to keep hersel...Juraria que habia leido antes esta historia corta, pero parece que no Bueno, no se la pierdan DJackalope Wives 5 Grandma Harken lives in the edge of desert, where between saguaro cactus the jackalope wives dance They had faces like no mortal woman and they moved like quicksilver and they played music that got down into your bones and thrummed like a sickness. Bittersweet story with all the elements of a fairy myth legend tale, with roots that maybe be celtic or indigenous , but what Juraria que habia leido antes esta historia corta, pero parece que no Bueno, no se la pierdan DJackalope Wives 5 Grandma Harken lives in the edge of desert, where between saguaro cactus the jackalope wives dance They had faces like no mortal woman and they moved like quicksilver and they played music that got down i...Well this is about the 5th thing I ve read from T.Kingfisher and I m starting to wonder if it s possible for her to write something I won t love.This is a gem of a book It deserves ten stars, not five Favorite stories Jackalope Wives and The Tomato Thief Grandma Harken is amazing, and I want to hearof her adventures in with the desert, not to mention the train gods and the girl with cholla ribs for bones The Dryad s Shoe featuring a wonderfully stubborn Cinderella who just wants to grow her garden, not marry a Duke Let Pass the Horses Black a retelling of the Tam Lin legend with a sting at the end that I did not s This is a gem of a book It ...Like all short story collections, I liked some storiesand some less But I don t think there was a dud in there, Vernon is really good It just comes down to taste.The two Grandma Harken stories, Jackalope Wives and The Tomato Thief, are the shining stars of the collection, instantly raising it to five stars I had read both of them before, and gladly reread them now I love Grandma Harken I also really enjoyed Editing, The Dryad s Shoe, and found mys...Another magnificent collection of stories from this superb author I can t recommend these enough Every one a gem I m keeping this short only because I have like 4 books of hers to review, having gone on a massive binge Loved them all.Sometimes a Godmother s magic is all in how you spin it In a very interesting story to start off a collection with a folk tales feel in contrast toToad Wordss fairy tale content, a young girl shows up at a Fairy Godmother s door demanding to know why her story was grimmer and edgier than other girls Despite the funny possibilities for their conversation, the answer and the reality behind it...I ve read The Tomato Thief and Jackalope Wives, thanks to tor, and they were AMAZING I ve been hoping and hoping for , so I m so excited to discover this volume

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05 October 2017

T. Kingfisher