Melissa Yuan-Innes

• Jan-2011
• / Science Fiction
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When Melanie's mother dumps her at the Little Flower Preparatory College for Girls, Melanie can handle the uniforms and the 6 a.m. wake-up calls. But when the nuns' discipline turns savage and Melanie discovers that the parents have essentially aban...

• Jun-2011
• / Horror
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Award-winning author Melissa Yuan-Innes has been told, "You look like such a sweet girl, but your writing is so violent." She gathers three of her most disquieting tales, "Skin Song," "The Dormitory of the Fr...

• Jun-2011
• / Science Fiction
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Parenthood meets new technology on new territory, whether that's an exiled monk shepherding an eight-year-old monk into space or the first half-bonobo, half-human hybrid venturing out of his steel room. Award-winning author and physician,...

• Jun-2011
• / Science Fiction
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Hi.I Sam.I half bonobo, half human.That make people want to kill me.I not care. I play in my steel room.But then something go very wrong.Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collectionaffecting-- Rich Horton, SF Si...

• Jul-2011
• / Fantasy
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Hans Christian Andersen wrote about a girl who would have danced herself to death in a pair of magical red shoes if an executioner had not chopped her feet off. Have you ever wondered what happened to the shoes (and the feet) thereafter?When magical...

• Jul-2011
• / Science Fiction
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Two Shaolin monks exiled to outer space try to keep up their traditions, including kung fu, on their way to answer an alien communication signal. But when Little Tiger falls ill, they must reinvent their approach in order to survive....

• Jul-2011
• / Horror
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""Melissa Yuan-Innes delivers a Bradburyian shocker in 'Mrs. Marigold's House'.Highly recommended."- Paul Di Filippo, Asimov's Every Hallowe'en, Mrs. Marigold invites only six children to her mansion. One boy, Adam, war"...

• Jul-2011
• / Science Fiction
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Hans Christian Andersen wrote about a girl who would have danced herself to death in a pair of magical red shoes if an executioner had not chopped her feet off. Have you ever wondered what happened to the shoes (and the feet) thereafter?When magical...

• Jul-2011
• / Fantasy
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When magical creatures need a cure, they journey to the Wizard's Hospital. On a cold day in December, a mysterious man makes a pilgrimage to a hidden corner of Montreal, Canada. He has been walking for almost 2000 years and must negotiate a dwarf, ...

• Jul-2011
• / General Fiction
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...a medical student who is anything but ordinary...Kyla has a strange gift: she can hear skin songs. To her, a person's skin has a song and each person sounds differently. On arriving at med school she finds herself in a quandary: does the skin ...

• Sep-2011
• / Romance
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• Nov-2011
• / Science Fiction
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Jenny Reed? Just another kid who died from anorexia.Jenny Rex? That's Jenny Reed back from the grave, making it her mission to inform the world about her deadly disease. Instead of dragging entrails and consuming brains, she's charming the world with...

• Dec-2011
• / General Fiction
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What if...your best friend was a long, thin slice of dill pickle and you played with him every night in your dreams?What if...this world became more real than the one you're in right now?What if...Pickle Joe took you swimming up the Amazon River and ...

• Jan-2012
• / General Fiction
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Why don't you write about your mother? That's what I like when I read Amy Tan, suggested a friend.That was why I read Amy Tan too. Still, I resisted the suggestions until I wrote the Hope Sze medical thrillers and a version of my family snuck onto th...

• Jan-2012
• / Science Fiction
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When a tyrant overtakes her space colony, Emma Lo strikes back with her art. She employs nanotechnology to transform her century-old body so that she may play Othello in a desperate bid to satirize and overthrow the...

• Apr-2012
• / General Fiction
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When I mention that I work in an emergency room, people usually say, 1. Are you a nurse? 2. Wow. That must be really hard. 3. What's it like? This is what it's like to be an emergency doctor. That teenager puking up two liters of vodka and his stomac...

• Mar-2014
• / General Fiction
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Mark loves Laura, but he's got to prove it. She wants to be courted with all the usual old-fashioned things: movies, coffee, and a sacrifice. What's the big deal? Everything has to die eventually. A story that asks, "How far w...

• Aug-2014
• / General Fiction
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What if loaves of bread could talk to you, and you could hear them? What if you could hear the story of all inanimate objects? What would you do with that power? Would you try to save the world, or would you just try to save yourself? A s...

• Sep-2014
• / General Fiction
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In the heart of ancient China, two princesses, one monk, and a ghost battle for life. When the King draws his last breath and the pregnant Queen begins to hemorrhage, two princesses gallop toward the tree of life, praying for...

• Sep-2014
• / General Fiction
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Octavia Klein unearths a box of buried treasure while digging a fertility garden in the backyard of her Montreal mansion. The treasure belongs to one foul-mouthed leprechaun who promises her three wishes if she'll just hand back the treasure...

• Aug-2016
• / Fantasy
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Selected for The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2017 Edition, Edited by Paula Guran Seven-year-old Trenton Lo loves basketball and Star Wars and most of all, his family and Guangdong Barbecue, the restaurant they're...

• Dec-2019
• / General Fiction
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E.T. Meets Fast FoodIt sounds like the easiest mission ever:Go to Earth (you know, the blue planet in the middle of nowhere).Sell hot dogs.Record interactions with human beings using the loop recorder in his brain.Unfortunately, humans refuse to buy ...