“Bird Count” by Jane Yolen

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“Bird Count” by Jane Yolen

12.20.12

Story 359d/366

I knew Yolen only for her children’s books and this is very much an adult story. The narrator lives with a beautiful man who lives only for birds. And then a hawk as big as a man appears and he has no interest in the bird watcher at all. This story appears in Sirens and Other Demon Lovers, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.

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“Mirrors” by Garry Kilworth

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“Mirrors” by Garry Kilworth

12.19.12

Story 359c/366

A man awakes in a city not his own and follows neon lights and narrow alleyways to a house of erotic fantasy. And then…it gets strange. This story appears in the anthology Sirens and Other Demon Lovers, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. I bought my copy of this book from Datlow herself last year when she was having a Christmas clean-out sale. I’ve never been disappointed by one of her anthologies.

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“A Sound, Like Angels Singing” by Leonard Rysdyk

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“A Sound, Like Angels Singing” by Leonard Rysdyk

09.03.12

Story 243/366

Rysdyk is a 1990 Clarion West graduate and this is the second story he wrote there. He has the smallest Internet footprint of any writer I’ve ever come across. He is a member of Library Thing and GoodReads, but almost all that’s there on his “profile” is a mention that he wrote this story, which appeared in Snow White, Blood Red, an anthology of adult fairy tales edited by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow. So there’s no bio or picture of the author today. (Even the author’s  intro in the book is extremely spare—Rysdyk is clearly a man who relishes his privacy.) This story is short and strange, a reworking of a well-known tale from a very unusual point of view.

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