Sister Emily's Lightship and Other Stories
Jane Yolen
Open Road Media
Fiction, Collection/Fantasy/Sci-Fi
**** (Good)
DESCRIPTION: An Appalachian girl's wicked stepmother plots her downfall... a young fairy girl inadvertently curses a royal child... a reclusive poet has a life-altering encounter... a dying man imparts one last gift to an alien species... These and other stories by genre master Jane Yolen appear in this collection, including the award-winning tales "Sister Emily's Lightship" and "Lost Girls."
REVIEW: Considering my iffy anthology luck, this is a decent collection, though - as usual - the stories themselves were a mixed bag. Some felt fragmentary, like prequels or filler taken from longer works (or which were intended to expand into novels, but never took off), or simply written more for imagery and mood than story. Others came together decently. There's an overall bias toward dark (or at least ambiguous) endings, and a few seem to strike similar themes. They're all well written, of course, even the ones that weren't my cup of cocoa.
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