Ironing / Rosalie Morales Kearns. Devil take the hindmost / Joanna Lesher -- Your giraffe is burning / E.A. Fow -- Break / Gina Ochsner -- The high priestess never marries / Sharanya Manivannan -- Accident / Tracy Gold -- Grave to cradle / Catherine Haustein -- Stony limits / Enid Shomer -- Our Lady of the Artichokes / Katherine Vaz -- The last man on Earth / Karen Stromberg -- Bringing down the clouds / Kathleen Alcalá -- Noelia and Amparo / Glendaliz Camacho -- Revenge on a plate / Dawn Knox -- The conversion of Sister Terence / Liz Dougherty Dolan -- A big girl has a good time with small men / Heather Fowler -- Silted castle walls / Megan Rahija Bush -- Not a through street / Judy Juanita -- Husband hunting / SJ Sindu -- Physics / Kim Chinquee -- Discretion / Jennifer Baker -- Runaway truck ramp / Soniah Kamal -- The star of the north / Cathleen Calbert -- And the wisdom to know the difference / Hilary Zaid -- Game, set, match / Janis Butler Holm -- Yatri / Jay O'Shea -- How to save a child from choking / Maureen O'Leary -- Dear Juana of God / Beth Alvarado -- Away / Ellie Knightsbridge -- Miss Emily Gray / Theodora Goss -- Heart like a drum / Alison Newall -- What do you call a monster? / Laura Hart -- Accessories extra / Elizabeth Kerlikowske ; Reading maps / Elizabeth Kerlikowske -- The mirror / Teresa Milbrodt -- Test group 4 / SJ Sindu -- Devil take the hindmost / Rosalie Morales Kearns.
Summary:
The thirty-six stories in this anthology, all by women authors, center around female characters who follow their own paths and tell the powers-that-be what they don't want to hear, women who stand up for themselves, for each other, for their beliefs.
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