Three weeks ago we shared Elizabeth Story’s amazing cover for Ellen Klages’ forthcoming WICKED WONDERS. Now we can tell you a bit more about the extraordinary collection.

The Scott O’Dell
award-winning author of THE GREEN GLASS SEA returns with her second
collection: a new decade of lyrical stories with vintage flair.

Inside of these
critically-acclaimed tales are memorable characters who are smart,
subversive, and singular. A rebellious child identifies with wicked
Maleficent instead of Sleeping Beauty. Best friends Anna and Corry
share a last melancholy morning before emigration to another planet.
A prep-school girl requires more than mere luck to win at dice with a
faerie. Ladies who lunch keeping dividing that one last bite of
dessert in the paradox of female politeness.

Whether on a habitat
on Mars or in a boardinghouse in London, discover Ellen Klages’
wicked, wondrous adventures full of brazenness, wit, empathy, and
courage.

Photo by Scott R. Kline

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Introduction by Karen Joy Fowler
• The Education of a Witch
• Amicae Aeternum
• Mrs. Zeno’s Paradox
• Singing on a Star
• Hey, Presto
• Echoes of Aurora
• Friday Night at St. Cecilia’s
• Caligo Lane
• Goodnight Moons
• Gone to the Library
• Household Management
• Sponda the Suet Girl and the Secret of the French Pearl
• Woodsmoke
• The Scary Ham
• Afterword: Why I Write Short Fiction

WICKED WONDERS comes your way this spring.

For more info on WICKED WONDERS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story