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A Woman Unbecoming Kindle Edition
Most funerals are celebrations for the living—unless the guests decide to tempt fate and the guest of honor.
A bicycle ride becomes a contest of egos, but the male pursuers aren't the only ones hungry for the race to end.
These women are going to cut the world and let it bleed.
Crone Girls Press presents A Woman Unbecoming, a charity anthology of horror and dark tales to benefit reproductive healthcare rights. Award-winning and up-and-coming authors share over two dozen stories and poems. If you like intense characters, powerful women, and twists you won’t see coming, then you’ll love this fierce anthology co-edited by Rachel A. Brune and Carol Gyzander.
Explore A Woman Unbecoming to revel in women’s rage, power, and agency—and support reproductive healthcare rights today.
Stories and Poems By:
Marc L. Abbott, Linda D. Addison, Alp Beck, Carina Bissett, Rachel A. Brune, Paige L. Christie, Ravyn Crescent, Elizabeth Davis, Angela Giddings, Nicole Givens Kurtz, Teel James Glenn, Carol Gyzander, CM Harris, Nicole Henning, Darin Kennedy, DeAnna Knippling, Tara Laskowski, Lee Murray, Bridgett Nelson, Jennifer Nestojko, Jessica Nettles, Christina Nordlander, Cindy O'Quinn & Patricia Gomes, Cristel Orrand, Jude Reid, Mike Robinson, Kathleen Scheiner, Jeff Strand, Anna Taborska, Steven Van Patten, Holly Lyn Walrath, Michael G. Williams, Samantha Bryant and Jeff Wood
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateAugust 23, 2022
- File size4.5 MB
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- ASIN : B0B7822JGM
- Publisher : Crone Girls Press
- Accessibility : Learn more
- Publication date : August 23, 2022
- Language : English
- File size : 4.5 MB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 309 pages
- ISBN-13 : 978-1952388118
- Page Flip : Enabled
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,311,401 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2,056 in Horror Anthologies (Kindle Store)
- #3,928 in Horror Anthologies (Books)
- #6,136 in Horror Short Stories
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About the authors
Michael G. Williams writes queer-themed science fiction, urban fantasy, and horror celebrating monsters, macabre humor, and subverted expectations. He’s the author of three series for Falstaff Books: the award-winning vampire/urban fantasy series The Withrow Chronicles; a new urban fantasy series featuring real estate, time travel, and San Francisco’s most beloved historical figures, SERVANT/SOVEREIGN; and the science fiction noir A Fall in Autumn, winner of the 2020 Manly Wade Wellman Award. Michael also co-hosts Arcane Carolinas and contributes to tabletop RPG development. He strives to present the humor and humanity at the heart of horror and mystery with stories of outcasts and loners finding their people.
Michael is an avid podcaster, activist, and gaymer, and is a brother in St. Anthony Hall and Mu Beta Psi. He lives in Durham, NC, with his husband, a variety of animals, and more and better friends than he probably deserves.
Nicole Givens Kurtz has been called “a genre polymath who does crime, horror, and Science Fiction and Fantasy (Book Riot).” They’ve named her as one of the 6 Black SFF Indie Writers You Should be Reading, 30 Must-Read SFF Books by Black Authors, and The Best of the West: 8 Alternative History Westerns (Sisters of the Wild Sage). She’s a two-time Atomacon Palmetto Scribe Award winner. With over 20 years in publishing, She’s written for Pseudopod, Apex, Fiyah, White Wolf, The Realm, Baen, Subsume, and MV Media. Nicole has over 50 published short stories, including her story, “The Way Home,” in Marvel®’s Captain America: The Shield of Sam Wilson anthology from Titan Books. Nicole is the author of the Cybil Lewis and Death Violations cybernoir series as well as the Kingdom of Aves fantasy mystery series.
She has conducted workshops for Writer’s Digest Online, Clarion West online, SAGA, and is the owner of Mocha Memoirs Press. She’s the editor for the groundbreaking SLAY: Stories of the Vampire Noire and co-editor of Blackened Roots: An Anthology of the Undead anthology. Nicole is professional level member of SFWA and HWA.
CM Harris is the author of novels THE THICKET, MAIDEN LEAP, THE CHILDREN OF MOTHER GLORY, and ENTER OBLIVION.
Her short stories and essays appear in Oprah Winfrey’s O Magazine, Escape Artists’ Pseudopod podcast, A WOMAN UNBECOMING and COPPICE & BRAKE Dark Fiction Anthologies, Meniscus Literary Journal, SALiT Magazine, Harrington Literary Quarterly, and the anthology QUEER VOICES: Poetry, Prose, and Pride. Her screenplay The Cost of Glory recently received a Gold award for Best Concept Script and a Silver award for Best Feature Script from the Queen Palm Film Festival.
CM Harris attended The School of Art Institute of Chicago and The Loft Literary Center of Minneapolis. She lives in Minneapolis with her wife and their twins and is the lead singer of the indie band Hothouse Weeds.
Lee Murray is an author, editor, poet, and screenwriter of speculative fiction and horror from Aotearoa-New Zealand. A USA Today Bestselling author and four-time Bram Stoker Award winner, she is her country's only recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award for psychological horror. She lives in the sunny Bay of Plenty with her well-behaved family and a naughty dog.
Darin Kennedy, born and raised in Winston-Salem, NC, is a graduate of Wake Forest University and Bowman Gray School of Medicine. After completing family medicine residency in the mountains of Virginia, he served eight years as a United States Army physician and wrote his first novel in the sands of northern Iraq.
His first published novel, The Mussorgsky Riddle, was born from a fusion of two of his lifelong loves: classical music and world mythology. The Stravinsky Intrigue continues those same themes, and his Fugue & Fable trilogy culminates in The Tchaikovsky Finale. The Pawn Stratagem, his contemporary fantasy trilogy of Pawn’s Gambit, Queen’s Peril, and King’s Crisis combines contemporary fantasy, superheroics, and the ancient game of chess. His YA novel is Carol, a modern-day retelling of A Christmas Carol billed as Scrooge meets Mean Girls.
His latest series, Songs of the Ascendant, falls at the intersection of Highlander, X-Men, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Chuck, all told through a filter of 80s pop music and specifically the oeuvre of Pat Benatar. Comprised thus far of Shadows of the Night, All Fired Up, and You Better Run, this story is just getting started.
His short stories can be found in numerous anthologies and magazines, and the best, particularly those about a certain Necromancer for Hire, are collected for your reading pleasure under Darin’s imprint, 64Square Publishing.
Doctor-by-day and novelist-by-night, he writes and practices medicine in Charlotte, NC. When not engaged in either of the above activities, he has been known to strum the guitar, enjoy a bite of sushi, and rumor has it he even sleeps on occasion.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Mike Robinson is the award-winning author of multiple novels and dozens of short stories, most of them speculative fiction. His work has appeared in Clarkesworld, American Gothic Fantasy, Storyteller, ClonePod, December Tales II, Underland Arcana, Thirteen Podcast, Creepy Podcast and more, and has received honors from Writers of the Future, the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Maxy Awards, The BookFest, Kindle Book Awards and others. His novel "Walking the Dusk" was a semifinalist for Book of the Year in Publishers Weekly's BookLife Prize.
He is also the editor of J.P. Barnett's bestselling "Lorestalker" series, and Dr. Zo's award-winning "TimeOuts" middle-grade series. As a book coach and senior editor with Wordsmith Writing Coaches, he co-created the New Author Plunge, a workshop for beginning writers. In addition, he's a copywriter, illustrator and award-winning screenwriter with two produced credits including "Blood Corral," selected as Best Horror Feature at the Skyehouse International Film Festival.
Otherwise, he hikes (often with dogs), swims, draws, and tries to learn the didgeridoo.
"One of the best speculative fiction authors writing now."
-- Leslie Ann Moore, bestselling author of the "Griffin's Daughter" series
"Chock full of mind-bending goodness. Mike Robinson delivers equal parts of scares and the bizarre with wit and style―put him on your list of authors to watch!"
-- Guy Anthony De Marco, HWA Bram Stoker Award Finalist
Rachel A. Brune graduated from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts in May 2000 and was immediately plunged into the low-stakes world of entry-level executive assistant-ship. After the events of September 11, 2001, she joined the Army Reserve and got her first writing gig.
Rachel served five years on as a combat journalist, including two tours in Iraq, and a brief stint as a columnist for her hometown newspaper. After her second tour, she attended graduate school at the University at Albany in NY, where she earned her MA in Political Communication, and her commission as a second lieutenant in the military police corps. She returned to the Army Reserve in November 2014 and continued to serve until retiring in 2023.
When she moved on, she didn’t quit writing stories with soldiers in them, just added werewolves, sorcerers, a couple evil mad scientists, and a Fae or two. In addition to writing, she is the founder and chief editor at Crone Girls Press, an indie horror micropress specializing in anthologies. She also edits the Falstaff Dread line of horror fiction at Falstaff Books, a Charlotte, NC-based regional indie press.
Previously, Rachel was a contributing editor to the Writerpunk Press anthology series, which benefits the PAWS no-kill animal shelter in Lynnwood, WA. She lives with her spouse, two daughters, one reticent cat, and two flatulent rescue dogs. Her werewolf secret agent novel, Cold Run, was published in 2022 by Falstaff Books. She holds two additional graduate degrees, a Masters of Criminal Justice and an MFA in Creative Writing.
Anna Taborska was born in London, England. She is a filmmaker and writer of horror stories, screenplays and poetry. Anna has written and directed two short fiction films, two documentaries and award-winning TV drama 'The Rain Has Stopped'. She also worked on twenty other film and TV productions, and was involved in the making of two major BBC television series: 'Auschwitz: the Nazis and the Final Solution' and 'World War Two behind Closed Doors - Stalin, the Nazis and the West'. Her stories have appeared in a number of Year's Best anthologies, including 'The Best Horror of the Year Volume Four' and 'Best British Horror 2014'. Anna's short story 'Bagpuss' was an Eric Hoffer Award Honouree, and the screenplay adaptation of her story 'Little Pig' was a finalist in the Shriekfest Film Festival Screenplay Competition, 2009. Anna's debut short story collection, 'For Those who Dream Monsters', released by Mortbury Press in 2013, won The Children of the Night Award. Anna is a five-time Bram Stoker Award nominee and a three-time British Fantasy Award nominee. You can view Anna's full resume here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1245940/, watch her films and book trailers here: http://www.youtube.com/annataborska and learn more about her short stories and screenplays here: http://annataborska.wix.com/horror.
Samantha Bryant believes in love, magic, and unexplainable connections between people. Her favorite things are lonely beaches, untamed cliff tops, sunlight through the leaves of trees, summer rains, and children's laughter. She lives in North Carolina, grew up in Kentucky, and left her heart in Alaska. She is fierce at heart, though she doesn't look it.
She reads poetry and comic books, sometimes on the same day because she contains multitudes.
She writes blogs, poems, essays, and novels. Mostly she writes about things that scare or worry her because writing is a great work to work things out. Someday, she hopes to make her living solely as a writer. In the meantime, she also teaches middle school Spanish, which, admittedly, is an odd choice for money-earning, especially in North Carolina.
When she's not writing or teaching, Samantha enjoys time with her family, watching old movies, baking, reading, and going places. Her favorite gift is tickets (to just about anything).
Carina Bissett is a writer, poet, and educator working primarily in the fields of dark fiction and fabulism. Her short fiction and poetry have been published in multiple journals and anthologies including What Remains, Upon a Twice Time, Bitter Distillations: An Anthology of Poisonous Tales, Arterial Bloom, Gorgon: Stories of Emergence, Weird Dream Society, Hath No Fury, and the HWA Poetry Showcase Vol. V, VI, and VIII. She has also written stories set in shared worlds for RPGs at Green Ronin Publishing and Onyx Path Publishing. In addition to writing, she has edited several projects; the most recent is in the role as co-editor for the award-winning anthology Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas.
As an educator, Carina has taught at Pikes Peak Community College, Glendale Community College, and Arizona State University. She also participated in the Colorado Writing Project and works with educators to develop writing instruction in college and secondary school classrooms. She currently offers workshops focused on story generation at The Storied Imaginarium. Her fiction has been nominated for the Sundress Publications Best of the Net Award and was a finalist for the Ron L. Hubbard Writers of the Future Awards. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Sundress Publications Best of the Net Award. In her editorial capacity, she’s received recognition as a Winner at the Colorado Book Awards 2022 (Anthology) and as a Finalist in the Fiction: Anthologies category of the 2022 International Book Awards.
Carol Gyzander was a prolific reader of classic science fiction and Agatha Christie mysteries in her early days. Now that her kids have flown the coop, she writes and edits horror, dark fiction, and sci-fi stories set in various time periods from her couch, with a Velcro cat firmly attached to her side.
Carol has short stories in over a dozen anthologies. Her most recent story, "The Yellow Crown" in UNDER TWIN SUNS: ALTERNATE HISTORIES OF THE YELLOW SIGN, gives a new take on Robert W. Chambers’s classic work of weird fiction, The King in Yellow (1895). Edited by James Chambers, it is being released by Hippocampus Press on June 29. She's honored to have her story among great authors such as Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., Lisa Morton, John Langan, Sarah Read, Darrell Schweitzer, Greg Chapman, JG Faherty, Todd Keisling, Linda Addison, Tim Waggoner, and a dozen other awesome authors.
Carol is honored to have a dark fantasy story in the alternative Beatles anthology, ACROSS THE UNIVERSE: TALES OF ALTERNATIVE BEATLES, with some astounding authors such as Spider Robinson, Gregory Benford, David Gerrold, Pat Cadigan, Jody Lynn Nye, Gregory Frost, Cat Rambo, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Gordon Linzner, and Sally Wiener Grotta.
Other recent anthologies include STORIES WE TELL AFTER MIDNIGHT, CAT LADIES OF THE APOCALYPSE, HELL'S HIGHWAYS, THE DEVIL'S DUE, and HELL'S MALLS. Carol also has a number of short stories and poems in charity-based anthologies supporting breast cancer and Alzheimer's research.
She’s the Editor of Writerpunk Press, which creates anthologies of various genres of ’punk stories based upon classics.
Carol is quite busy with the Horror Writers Association as Chapter Program Co-Coordinator, Co-Coordinator of the NY Chapter, and co-host of Galactic Terrors, the monthly online reading series every second Thursday. See HWANY.org for more info!
See what else Carol is working on at www.CarolGyzander.com, or follow her on Twitter @CarolGyzander or Instagram @carolgyzander
Holly Lyn Walrath’s poetry and short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Fireside Fiction, Daily Science Fiction, Luna Station Quarterly, Liminality, and elsewhere. She is the author of the Elgin Award-winning chapbook Glimmerglass Girl (Finishing Line Press, 2018), a chapbook in Italian, Numinose Lapidi (Kipple Press 2020), and The Smallest of Bones (Clash Books, 2021). She holds a B.A. in English from The University of Texas and a Master’s in Creative Writing from the University of Denver. She is a freelance editor and host of The Weird Circular, an e-newsletter for writers containing submission calls and writing prompts. Find her online at www.hlwalrath.com or on Twitter @HollyLynWalrath.
Alp Beck lives in New York City. She writes in all genres but prefers horror. Her essays have been featured in the NY Times and the NY Blade. She is a big fan of the short story format and believes "Only when you master the art of the short story, are you ready to tackle novels.” Therefore, she will continue to practice until she gets it right. You can find her story, TO THINE SELF BE TRUE, in Hell’s Grannies: Kickass Tales of the Crone, by Lafcadio Press, HEELS, in A New York State of Fright, by Hippocampus Press and DEADMALL, in the upcoming anthology, Hell's Malls by Lafcadio Press. She is hard at work on a series of stories, including EYEWITNESS and THE UNDERRIDE.
Paige L. Christie was raised in Maine, and lives the NC mountains, writing speculative fiction, walking her dog, and being ignored by her 3-legged cat. Always a nerd, obsessive about hobbies like photography, Ghawazee Dance, and listening to the voices...err...characters in her head, Paige can be found slightly left of center.
As a believer in the power of words, Paige tells stories that are both entertaining and thoughtful. Especially of interest are tales that speak to women, and open a space where adventure and fantasy are not all about happy endings.
Nicole Henning is a book-a-holic who lives in a big-little town in Wisconsin. She surrounds herself with all things scary and bizarre and enjoys creating unique art. When she isn’t writing she enjoys playing video games and spends a lot of time snuggling with her dog Allie aka Princess Prissy Pants. Reading, writing, and horror are her biggest passions in life.
Once an operating room registered nurse, Bridgett Nelson so enjoyed playing with human organs, she decided to turn her macabre interest into a horror writing career. She loves bubble baths (because nothing says spooooky writer like orange-scented bubbles), hates not knowing what’s swimming in the water with her, lives for Halloween season (but loathes chainsaw-wielding dudes in haunted houses), adores her West Virginia University Mountaineers, is very pro-Oxford comma, and thinks bananas are absolutely disgusting.
Her first collection, A Bouquet of Viscera, is a two-time Splatterpunk Award winner, recognized both for the collection itself and its standout story, "Jinx." Deadgirl, the novelization of the cult classic film, is now available from Encyclopocalypse Publications and includes forewords from the films actors, Noah Segan and Shiloh Fernandez, a Q&A from screenwriter, Trent Haaga, and a fan fiction piece from noted horror author, Jeff Strand. Her latest collection, Embracing the Profane, includes fifteen extreme stories that play on Bridgett's dark humor and twisted brain. She is also the author of Poisoned Pink, What the Fuck Was That?, Sweet, Sour, & Spicy, and Red Inside, a finalist in the 2025 Books of Horror Indie Brawl.
Her work has appeared in multiple anthologies, including the iconic Deathrealm Spirits, Crystal Lake's Hotel Macabre, Edward Lee's Erotic Horror for Horny Housewives, The Rack, GhabaGhoul, To Hell and Back, Evil Little Fucks, Y'all Ain't Right, Splatterpunk's Basement of Horror, Dark Disasters, October Screams, American Cannibal, A Woman Unbecoming, and the legendary Splatterpunk Zine.
Bridgett is working on her first original novel, a sequel novel to her most popular short story, and a collaborative novel with a very funny writer.
When Edward Lee read her story "Giggly," available in the Poisoned Pink collection, he said to her:
"Giggly kicked my ass. Outstanding job! I need therapy now."
Bridgett is mom to Parker and Autumn, three pugs, a Saint Bernard, and a ball python. She is a 2022 Michael Knost WINGS award nominee, won second-place in the '22 Gross-Out contest at KillerCon in Austin, Texas, and third-place in the ’23 Gross-Out contest.
She's a freelance editor. Audiobook proofer. Bookworm. Dog lover. Tarantula whisperer. Bra avoider. ENJF. Amaretto Sour obsessor.
Bridgett currently lives in Duluth, Minnesota, with Bram Stoker Award-winning author, Jeff Strand, and their ball python, Indie Hellspawn McFangy Serenity Strand.
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- Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2022I'm so glad that I happened upon this collection of truly fantastic tales. There wasn't a single story in this book that I didn't like and enjoy.
I couldn't help but notice that a great many of these excellent stories referenced the art of witchcraft. This delighted me to no end, since I, too, practice.
Thank you to all the marvelous authors! This collection really made my day!!!
- Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2022Feminist indy publisher Crone Girls has brought together a diverse array of independent authors to explore and celebrate the autonomy, power, and anger of women facing a world that would deny them what is theirs by right. Best of all, the profits will be used to support reproductive healthcare rights.
All speculative fiction and leaning towards horror, I enjoyed every story and poem in this anthology. My emotions ranged from rage and grief to vindication and satisfaction. There were twist endings, surprise characters, and even a real-live LOL guffaw (thank you, Jeff Strand). A very satisfying F*** the Patriarchy read.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2022While the work here is timely for USA readers in light of the recent Roe vs. Wade decision, I don't want to pigeonhole the book. There is a lot of variety to the stories here, both of moderate length and very short, from contemporary to science fiction/fantasy works, all with good clean writing and strong premises. The first story needs to be its own book! A pleasure, highly recommend.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2022This anthology was birthed by the overturn of Roe V Wade and is full of horror, anger, and resolve in a collection of stories and poetry I’m still feeling as well as thinking about.
Crone Girls Press does not disappoint.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2025We needed this book when RvW was overturned and we definitely need it now! Tales of angry women both terrifying and empowering! We need more books like this.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2022I bought this anthology from the Horror Writers of America booth at Philcon.
When Roe v Wade was dismissed from history, when a woman’s right to her own body was taken away from her, so many people, male, female, gender-fluid, became angry. More than angry. This anthology is Crone Girls Press reaction.
Edited by Rachel A. Brune and Carol Gyzander, this is a charity anthology to benefit reproductive healthcare rights.
The stories and poems within are provocative, disturbing, incredibly creative, and so well-written. These are not fluffy, feel-good stories. These are stories with meat to them. After reading a few, I put the book down, and just said wow.
I recommend this highly, not just because I believe in the charity sales will benefit, but because it’s just so damn good.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2023One of the best anthologies I have ever read.
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- Amazon CustomerReviewed in the United Kingdom on May 5, 2023
4.0 out of 5 stars Not bad at all
It's an anthology, it's going to have its downs, but there's enough ups here to make it well worth reading