Sword And Sorceress XIV

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WOMEN OF COURAGE AND POWER...

...roam lands filled with danger, mystery, and magic. They are sword-wielding defenders or sorcerous spell-casters - roles too often considered the exclusive province of men.

In 26 original stories of bold and talented women, Diana Paxson, Deborah Wheeler, Elisabeth Waters, Adrienne Martine-Barnes and their fellow word-weavers lead their readers through bespelled realms of the imagination into dangers both physical and sorcerous, where all the powers of Avalon lie in a woman's hands...a talisman of love can banish a demon's deadly threat...an otherworldly hunter catches different game than she bargained for...a mother's scorn begets a daughter's magic...

The Bargain • • short story by Laura J. Underwood
The Impression of Power • • short story by Lee Martindale
The Naming of Names • • short story by Adrienne Martine-Barnes
Changelings • • short story by Diana L. Paxson
Death-Hunt • • short story by Raul Reyes
A Single Soul • • short story by Deborah Wheeler
The Needle and the Sword • • short story by Jessie D. Eaker
Small Considertions • • short story by Judith Fielder Leggett
If You Can't Stand the Heat… • • short story by P.E. Cunningham
Silver Bands • • short story by Syne Mitchell
The Hand of a Lady • • short story by Anne Cutrell
To Have and To Hold • • short story by K.D. Barnes
A Knight on Tower Hill • • short story by Kathrina Bood
The Longest Night • • short story by Lisa S. Silverthorne
Blood Moon • • novelette by Cynthia Ward
By the Skin of her Teeth • • short story by Heather Rose Jones
Friends in High Places • • short fiction by Christina Krueger
The Blade of Unmaking • • novelette by Elisabeth Waters
The Stone-Weaver's Tale • • short story by Cynthia McQuillin
The Hollow Dancer • • short story by Mary Soon Lee
La Faie Suiateih • • short story by Lisa Deason
Vengeance • • short story by Dorothy J. Heydt
The Moongate Troll • • short story by Patricia Duffy Novak
Lifestone • • short story by Mary Catelli
White Elephants • • short story by Christopher Kempke
Traveler's Aide • • short story by Kathi Thompson
Afterword: The Last Word • • essay by Rachel E. Holmen