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Fran Wilde is an author and technology consultant. Her first fantasy novel, Updraft, featuring the same world as "A Moment of Gravity, Circumscribed," debuts from Tor/Macmillan in 2015, with two more to follow. Her short stories have appeared in Asimov’s, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Nature, Daily Science Fiction, and Abyss & Apex. Her interview series Cooking the Books–about the intersection between food and fiction–has appeared at Strange Horizons, Tor.com, and on her website, franwilde.wordpress.com. You can find her on Twitter @fran_wilde and Facebook @franwildewrites.
A.C. Wise was born and raised in Montreal and currently lives in the Philadelphia area. She is the author of numerous short stories appearing in publications such as Clarkesworld, Shimmer, Apex, The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 4, and Year’s Best Weird Fiction Vol. 1, among others. In addition to her writing, she is the co-editor of Unlikely Story. Find her online at www.acwise.net.
Christie Yant is a science fiction and fantasy writer, and editor of the Women Destroy Science Fiction! special issue of Lightspeed Magazine. Her fiction has appeared in anthologies and magazines including Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2011 (Horton), Armored, Analog Science Fiction & Fact, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, io9, Wired.com, and China’s Science Fiction World. She lives on the central coast of California with two writers, one editor, two dogs, three cats, and a very small manticore. Follow her on Twitter @christieyant.
Mark Teppo is a synthesist, a troubleshooter (and -maker), a cat herder, and an idea man. He is the publisher of Resurrection House, a fiercely independent genre publishing venture that seeks to reignite a passionate love affair between authors and audiences via the printed book.
He lives in the Pacific Northwest, where he occasionally spends a weekend in the woods. His favorite Tarot card is the Moon.
Thirteen: Stories of Transformation is a collection of works of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the individual author’s imagination or are used in an absolutely fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons—living or dead—is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2015 by Mark Teppo
Copyright information for the individual stories is located on page 344, and which constitutes an extension of the copyright page.
All rights reserved, which means that no portion of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the express written permission of the publisher.
This is u013, and it has an ISBN of 978-1-63023-006-7.
This book was printed in the United States of America, and it is published by Underland Press, an imprint of Resurrection House (Puyallup, WA).
Across the knuckles of her left hand was tattooed
the word LOVE; on the right, the word FEAR.
Edited by Mark Teppo
Cover Design by Jennifer Tough
Book Design by Aaron Leis
Ebook conversion by Hydra House
First trade paperback Underland Press edition: March 2015
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Credits
"Skin and Paper" & "The Still Point of the Turning World" © Adrienne J. Odasso. These poems first appeared in Mandragora, published in 2012 by Scarlet Imprint. "With Musket and Ducat" © Tais Teng. A Dutch language version of Tais Teng’s story first appeared in Onder Parelmoeren Hemels in 2014. This is the story’s first English language appearance. "Selma Eats" © 2015 Fiona Moore. "Oh How The Ghost of You Clings" © 2015 Richard Bowes. "You Can Go Anywhere" © 2015 Jennifer Giesbrecht. "Twilight for the Nightingale" © 2015 David Tallerman. "The Thirteenth Ewe" © 2015 Lyn McConchie. "Augustine Clementine" © 2015 Liz Argall. "Creezum Zuum" © 2015 Julie C. Day. "Two Will Walk With You" © 2015 Grá Linnaea. "Eidolon" © 2015 Christie Yant. "Slow Shift" © 2015 Rik Hoskin. "The Math: A Fairy Tale" © Marc Levinthal. "Chrysalis" © Richard Thomas. This story first appeared in Arcadia Magazine, published in 2013. "Occupy Maple Street" © 2015 Gregory L. Norris. "Feed Me the Bones of Our Saints" © Alex Dally MacFarlane. This story first appeared in Strange Horizons, published in 2012. "Dear Writer or Whoever You Are" © 2015 Juli Mallett. "A Moment of Gravity, Circumscribed" © Fran Wilde. This story first appeared in Impossible Futures, an anthology from Pink Narcissus Press, published in 2013. "We All Look Like Harrie" © 2015 Andrew Penn Romine. "Letters to a Body on the Cusp of Drowning" © 2015 A. C. Wise. "Blackbird Lullaby" © 2015 George Cotronis. "Digital" © Daryl Gregory. This story first appeared in Unpossible and Other Stories, Daryl’s short story collection from Fairwood Press, published in 2011. "Why Ulu Left the Bladescliff" © 2015 Amanda C. Davis. "Follow Me Through Anarchy" © Jetse de Vries. This story first appeared in Michael Moorcock’s New Worlds Online Magazine, published in 2012. "The Ghost Eater" © 2015 Cat Rambo. "The Soldier Who Swung at the End of a Thread" © 2015 M. David Blake. "Rabbit, Cat, Girl" © 2015 Rebecca Kuder. "The Thirteenth Goddess" © 2015 Claude Lalumiére.
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