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Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 The Ways of the Wyrding Women
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'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).

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon One Small Step : An Anthology of Discoveries Tehani Croft (editor), Kings Meadows : FableCroft Publishing , 2013 Z1916871 2013 anthology short story science fiction fantasy horror

    One Small Step is an anthology comprising 16 stories of discovery from some of Australia’s best female writers. Each story in some way addresses the idea of discoveries, new beginnings, or literal or figurative 'small steps.'

    Kings Meadows : FableCroft Publishing , 2013
    pg. 181-209
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2013 The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror Volume 4 Liz Grzyb (editor), Talie Helene (editor), Nedlands : Ticonderoga Publications , 2014 8327622 2014 anthology short story

    '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.

    Nedlands : Ticonderoga Publications , 2014
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