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Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Sand and Seawater
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'The dollmaker came to the island as a young woman and vowed to make it a paradise. For all the children she made bad luck dolls that would absorb all the misfortunes to befall them. She animated the dolls with the soil of the island’s volcano. But the dolls removed the children’s capacity to feel anything, not only pain. She has created an island of zombies. The islanders had thrown the dolls into the sea to wash the bad luck away, but now they are returning, very much like zombies' (Lois Tilton, Locus Online).

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    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. 229-245
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