Hellebore & Rue: Tales of Queer Women and Magic

JoSelle Vanderhooft, Catherine Lundoff

Lethe Press, 2011 - Fiction - 227 pages

The essence of fantasy is magic and the folklore of women has often dwelt on the innumerable powers they possess. Magic that heals, magic that destroys, magic that saves their community. All these elements and more can be found in the queer women of Hellebore & Rue. These lesbians shape their worlds, their wants and needs, and, most important, their destinies. Here are stories of a greenmage reuniting with her former partner on one last mission in Connie Wilkin's "The Windskimmer"; a shaman calling on the power of the Medicine Buddha to fight demons in Jean Marie Ward's "Personal Demons"; and even an aging school nurse discovering a dark secret about her heritage in Steve Berman's "D is for Delicious." A dozen stories by a dozen talented authors, including Juliet Kemp, Lisa Morton, Ruth Sorrell, C. B. Calsing and other names that promise the reader many wonders.

Contents

• TROUBLE ARRIVED CB CALSING: 18
• PERSONAL DEMONS JEAN MARIE WARD: 36
• THE WINDSKIMMER CONNIE WILKINS: 56
• SKY LIT BARGAINS KELLY A HARMON: 72
• GLOAM QUINN SMYTHWOOD: 93
• WITCHES HAVE CATS JULIET KEMP: 112
• D IS FOR DELICIOUS STEVE BERMAN: 130
• AND OUT OF THE STRONG CAME FORTH SWEETNESS LISA NOHEALANI MORTON: 142
• BRIDGES AND LULLABIES RRAIN PRIOR: 156
• THIN SPUN SUNNY MORAINE: 172
• A STATE OF PANIC RACHEL GREEN: 196
• CONTRIBUTOR BIOS: 223
• EDITORS: 227
• Back cover: 228

Bibliographic information

• Title: Hellebore & Rue: Tales of Queer Women and Magic
• Editors: JoSelle Vanderhooft, Catherine Lundoff
• Publisher: Lethe Press, 2011
• ISBN: 1590213777, 9781590213773
• Length: 227 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Fantasy / Collections & Anthologies; Fiction / Fantasy / General; Fiction / LGBTQ+ / Lesbian; Fiction / Occult & Supernatural