Bone Swans: Stories

Description: A swan princess hunted for her bones, a broken musician and his silver pipe, and a rat named Maurice bring justice to a town under fell enchantment. A gang of courageous kids confront both a plague-destroyed world and an afterlife infested with clowns but robbed of laughter. In an island city, the murder of a child unites two lovers, but vengeance will part them. Only human sacrifice will save a city trapped in ice and darkness. Gold spun out of straw has a price, but not the one you expect. Bone Swans, the infernally whimsical debut collection from C. S. E. Cooney, gathers five novellas, including “Martyr’s Gem,” included in Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2014, and “Life on the Sun,” which Tangent Online calls “bold and powerful...Brilliant.”