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Claire Light

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Claire Light is a Bay Area writer and cultural worker. She has worked since 1997 in nonprofit administration, particularly arts in the Asian American community, and was a cofounder of Hyphen magazine. You can read her fiction in McSweeney's, Hyphen, Farthing, and The Encyclopedia Project, among others. A short collection of her stories, SLIGHTLY BEHIND AND TO THE LEFT, was published by Aqueduct Press in 2009. Her fantasy novel (written as Jadie Jang), MONKEY AROUND, based on the myth of the Monkey King, will be published by Solaris in Aug 2021. ...more

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Slightly Behind And To The Left: Four Stories And Three Drabbles

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And Then She Fell

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Metal from Heaven

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Ten Thousand Stitches (Regency Faerie Tales #2)

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“Well, he’s a dog. They don’t have an idea how the world’s supposed to be, so it doesn’t bother them when it isn’t.” Agnes frowned. “Except herding dogs, I think. They have a pretty clear idea in their heads, so they’re always nipping and worrying and trying to get it to fit. Of course, there’s people like that, too.” “A great many of them,” rumbled Fenris. “They are either excellent organizers or terrible zealots. There doesn’t seem to be a great deal of middle ground.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

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