If Tears Were Wishes And Other Short Stories

Three previously published stories by Ruth Nestvold "Feather and Ring" - A game designer is on business in Taiwan, attempting to pull off the commercial deal of her lifetime. Her husband is leaving her, their company is on the verge of bankruptcy, and it looks as though a hostile takeover may ruin them. But luckily for Lindsay, magic lurks in the streets of Taipei, hidden between the skyscrapers and the constant traffic. "Woman in Abaya With Onion" - A young woman visiting Egypt is pitted against far more than mere cultural differences when she begins to be visited by violent visions from the past. "If Tears Were Wishes" - "The smell of industrial strength cleansers was laced with the smell of urine. In the back of her mind, through the pain and anger and fear, Brooke registered that the girls' bathroom didn't smell this way, pungent behind the clean, the traces of decades of boys and young men missing the urinals impossible to get out of the walls and the floor. The gag in her mouth tasted like dusty cotton.... She could tell from the third boy's expression that he would have hit her too if not for the vials he held. Vials which held a fortune. The rarest substance in the world: her tears." "If Tears Were Wishes and Other Short Stories" is a story collection of approximately 14000 words.

About the Author

Ruth Nestvold's short stories have appeared in numerous markets, including Asimov's, F&SF, Baen's Universe, Strange Horizons, Realms of Fantasy, and Gardner Dozois's Year's Best Science Fiction. Her fiction has been nominated for the Nebula, Tiptree, and Sturgeon Awards. In 2007, the Italian translation of her novella "Looking Through Lace" won the "Premio Italia" award for best international work. Her novel Yseult (Flamme und Harfe) appeared in translation with the German imprint of Random House in 2009 and has since been translated into Dutch and Italian. She maintains a web site at ruthnestvold.com.

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