T. Kingfisher

Winner of the Nebula and WSFA Short Fiction Awards. Includes "The Tomato Thief" winner of 2017 Hugo Award - Best Novelette 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.

Jackalope Wives and Other Stories

Janice Hopper

Friends, if you haven't read Ursula Vernon or her alter ego T. Kingfisher, you are missing a treat.

Under her own name (Ursula Vernon), she writes charming children's stories about hampster princesses and goblins and such things. Under her T. Kingfisher alias, she rewrites fairy tales and weird tales and magical tales and other hard-to-characterize stories.

The first story I ever read by her was Toad Words and it pretty much struck me dumb with delight. I've been a serious and resolute fan ever since. I follow her on Twitter too.

These stories are some of her very best. "Jackalope Wives" won a Nebula. "The Tomato Thief" won a Hugo. All are weird and wonderful.

Personal note: I have been in very low spirits lately because of Various Things Happening Now. The other night I felt that if I couldn't get some relief from this darkness, I just didn't know what I would do. I picked up this book and read. I got pulled into other worlds where some problems are solvable, and where there are marvels and magic. After a while, I felt better, and it was a balm to me, and heart's ease.

Thank you again, Ursula. Thank you.

Haley Murray

Godmother - 4/5
Jackalope Wives - 3/5
Wooden Feathers - 3/5
Editing - 4/5
Bird Bones - 3.5/5
The Time With Bob and the Unicorn - 1/5
Razorback - 2/5
The Dryad’s Shoes - 4/5
Let Pass The Horses Back - 4/5
This Vote Is Legally Binding - 2/5
Telling the Bees - 2/5
The Tomato Thief - 3/5
In Questionable Taste - 2/5
Origin Story - 2/5
Pocosin - 4/5
It Was A Day - 2/5

Jackalope Wives and Other Stories

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