Scorpion Girl [trade paperback] Janeen Webb
Details
A COLLECTION by Janeen Webb
PUBLICATION DATE January 2025
COVER ART Carly Allen Fletcher
PAGES 300
ISBN 978-1-8039-507-1
EDITION
Trade Paperback (The first 100 copies will have a numbered signature plate signed by Janeen Webb)
ABOUT THE BOOK
We all have our demons. In Scorpion Girl, women of all ages face theirs. From battlefields to bedrooms, in these stories nothing is what it seems: creatures from myth, legend, history and literature rub shoulders with ordinary—and extraordinary—people. From ghosts to scientists, from eco-terrorists to time travellers, these courageous women come face to face with the uncanny, the supernatural and the bizarre. They meet the challenges with whatever they can muster—from the casual bravery of a woman warrior to the stoic endurance of a refugee child. Like all of us, they try to make sense of the unstable, conflicted world in which they find themselves.
Scorpion Girl is a must-read collection for everyone who enjoys fast-paced, unsettling, provocative fiction.
CONTENTS
- Preface: Stories with a sting in the tail
- A Pearl Beyond Price
- Monkey Business
- Fade to Grey
- Sorrow
- Future Perfect
- Mordor South
- When Dolores The Dancer Met Buckeye The Pirate
- Snakebite
- A Second Coming
- A Wondrous Necessary Woman
- Apostles of Mercy
- Night Out
- Gallipoli Belle
- Mother Diamond
- Spike
- The Dowager Duchess of Dingo Creek
- The Medici Stiletto
- Scorpion Girl