Published in November by ChiZine: Hair Side, Flesh Side by Helen Marshall
($16.95):
“A child receives the body of Saint Lucia
of Syracuse for her seventh birthday. A rebelling angel rewrites the Book of
Judgement to protect the woman he loves. A young woman discovers the lost
manuscript of Jane Austen written on the inside of her skin. A 747 populated by
a dying pantheon makes the extraordinary journey to the beginning of the
universe.
Lyrical and tender, quirky and cutting,
Helen Marshall’s exceptional debut collection weaves the fantastic and the
horrific alongside the touchingly human in fifteen modern parables about
history, memory, and cost of creating art.”
I picked up a copy at FantasyCon and my
initial thoughts are: Wow! This is wonderful stuff. Rob Shearman says so, too,
in his introduction.
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