The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods & Other Stories (Collected Short Fiction)
Maria Dahvana HeadleyMaria Dahvana Headley is the New York Times-bestselling author of seven books including The Mere Wife (MCD x FSG), a contemporary adaptation of Beowulf, named by the Washington Post as one of its Notable Works of Fiction in 2018. Her new verse translation of Beowulf is forthcoming from FSG in August, 2020. She’s written for both teenagers (Magonia and Aerie, HarperCollins) and adults, in a variety of genres and forms. Headley’s short fiction has been shortlisted for the Nebula, Shirley Jackson, Tiptree, and World Fantasy Awards, and for the 2020 Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and has been anthologized in many year’s bests. This book contains the body of her short fiction to date.
Seeräuber
Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream
Game
Moveable Beast
The Traditional
The Krakatoan
Such & Such Said to So & So
Bit-U-Men
The Psammophile
What You've Been Missing
The Tallest Doll in New York City
Dim Sun
What There Was to See
The End of the Sentence (with Kat Howard)
Taxidermist in the Underworld
If You Were a Tiger, I'd Have to Wear White
Who Is Your Executioner?
And the Winners Will Be Swept Out to Sea
The Scavenger's Nursery
Ivory Darts, Golden Arrows
The Cellar Dweller
Solder and Seam
Some Gods of El Paso
The Thirteen Mercies
The Virgin Played Bass
Ledge Bants (with China Miéville)
Mr. Doornail
Little Widow
See the Unseeable, Know the Unknowable
The Thule Stowaway
Astronaut
Black Powder
Memoirs of an Imaginary Country
The Orange Tree
Adriftica
You Pretend Like You Never Met Me, and I'll Pretend Like I Never Met You
Read After Burning
The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods