Book Review of Women of The
Dark Streets by Various
Author: various authors
Edited by Radclyffe and Stacia
Seaman
Pages: 336
Pub Date: March 2012
ISBN 13: 9781602826519
Genre: lesbian paranormal anthology
Contains
The Trickster Codex by Jess Faraday
Book
Synopsis:
Enter a midnight world of the
supernatural—a world of vampires, werewolves, witches, ghosts, and demons. A
seductive world limited only by your imagination, full of dark fantasies,
hidden desires, and sexy women who rule the night. Edited by award-winning
editors Radclyffe and Stacia Seaman, Women of the Dark Streets presents all new
tales of the paranormal from your favorite Bold Strokes authors.
Except from the short story
"The Trickster Codex," published this month in Women of the
Dark Streets, a lesbian paranormal anthology from Bold Strokes Books.
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The infrequently patronized offices
of Amelia Archer, Private Investigator–that is, me–sit on top of a squat brown
brick building in downtown Los Angeles. It’s a dump. The water is unreliable
and the wiring downright dangerous. But between the war and the fact that
nobody hires the city’s only female dick with that bastard Philip Marlowe
hanging around, I’m lucky to have it. My office is on the eighth floor, and the
elevator is always broken. After a year and change, I had a caboose like a
marble statue and I could run up the stairs in heels without breaking a sweat.
I like to look on the bright side.
That day, I’d barely had time to toss my hat on the rack, light up a smoke, and put my size nines up on my desk when she walked through the door. Now the dame hadn’t been waiting when I got there, and I sure as Shinola hadn’t heard anyone on the stairs behind me. But who was I to complain? My first walk-in in weeks, and she was five-and-a-half feet of gorgeous, with shoulders like a general, black hair and eyes, and skin like red desert clay. She held herself straight and proud, and though she was wearing a tailored jacket and skirt, when I looked at her, I saw her barefoot and in buckskin on some high desert plain, that black hair no longer restrained by pins and fedora, but whipping free around her shoulders in the wind.
“What’s up, Tiger Lily?” I asked.
Author
Information:
Jess Faraday is the author of one
novel, three book translations, a handful of short stories, and numerous nonfiction
articles.She is a graduate of the University of Arizona (B.A.) and UCLA (M.A.). Since then, she has earned her daily bread in a number of questionable ways, including translation, lexicography, copyediting, teaching high school Russian, and hawking shoes to the overprivileged offspring of Los Angeles-area B-listers.
She enjoys martial arts, the outdoors, strong coffee and a robust Pinot Noir.
Twitter:@jessfaraday
Facebook: Jess Faraday
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