Weird Women, Wired Women

Kit Reed

Wesleyan University Press, Apr 24, 1998 - Fiction - 214 pages

Visionary stories expose the humor and horror of contemporary women's lives.

Kit Reed has been delighting and terrifying readers for over thirty years with her darkly comic speculative fiction. This collection of short stories, drawn from a lifetime's work, shows Reed at the top of her form. First published in venues ranging from The Missouri Review to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, these twenty stories deal with women's lives and feminist issues from the kitchen sink and pink dishmop era through the warlike years of the women's movement to the uneasy accommodation of the present.

Contents

• The Wait: 1
• The New You: 15
• The Food Farm: 41
• In Behalf of the Product: 49
• Songs of War: 56
• The Weremother: 92
• Pilots of the Purple Twilight: 106
• Frontiers: 115
• The Bride of Bigfoot: 125
• The Hall of New Faces: 133
• The Mothers of Shark Island: 179
• Mommy Nearest: 190

About the author

Kit Reed was born Lillian Craig in San Diego, California on June 7, 1932. She received a bachelor's degree from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland in 1954. In the 1950's, she worked as a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times and for the New Haven Register. She was an author who wrote novels and stories in various genres for children, teens, and adults. Her short story collections included Mister Da V. and Other Stories; The Revenge of the Senior Citizens; Thief of Lives; Weird Women, Wired Women; Dogs of Truth; What Wolves Know; and The Story Until Now. Her books included Armed Camps, Fort Privilege, @Expectations, Bronze, The Baby Merchant, The Night Children, Son of Destruction, Where, and Mormama. She also wrote several novels under the pen name Kit Craig and a horror novel, Blood Fever, under the pen name Shelley Hyde. She died several months after being diagnosed with a brain tumor on September 24, 2017 at the age of 85.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Weird Women, Wired Women
• Author: Kit Reed
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 1998
• ISBN: 0819522554, 9780819522559
• Length: 214 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Science Fiction / General; Fiction / Short Stories (single author); Social Science / Women's Studies