Cleopatra Brimstone

WFA nominated novella. It originally appeared in the anthology Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction (2001), edited by Al Sarrantonio, and was reprinted in Lightspeed, March 2012. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection (2002), edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13 (2002), edited by Stephen Jones, and Poe's Children: The New Horror: An Anthology (2008), edited by Peter Straub. It is included in the collections Bibliomancy (2003), Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories (2006), and The Best of Elizabeth Hand (2021).