Mari Ness
Author of In the Greenwood
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Works by Mari Ness
Deathlight 2 copies
Cinder Feet 2 copies
Remembering Sara 1 copy
The Messenger [short work] — Author — 1 copy
Quoth The Cultist 1 copy
Seaweed 1 copy
The Shadow In The Mirror 1 copy
The Swing 1 copy
And the Hollow Space Inside 1 copy
Do Not Imagine 1 copy
Trickster 1 copy
Twittering The Stars 1 copy
Kaleidotrope Summer 2016 — Contributor — 1 copy
Associated Works
Shadows of the Emerald City: A Collection of Stories Based on the Writings of L. Frank Baum and The Wizard of Oz (2009) — Contributor — 14 copies
Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multiverse (2013) — Contributor — 12 copies
Here, We Cross: a collection of queer and genderfluid poetry from Stone Telling 1-7 (2012) — Contributor — 9 copies
Spelling the Hours: Poetry Celebrating the Forgotten Others of Science and Technology (Stone Bird Poetry) (Volume 1) (2016) — Contributor — 4 copies
Daily Science Fiction: March 2020 — Contributor — 1 copy
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This retelling of Robin Hood is sharp and unexpected and fraught, in a way that I appreciate in short fiction or poetry but tend to find unsatisfying in novels.
“I’ll wear a hood, perhaps something over my face. They’ll guess, of course, but they won’t have proof. I’ll have my men wear the same.”
“No women?” She cannot help but ask.
“If you can find me another of your skill.”
She keeps her hands folded in her lap.
“I doubt I’ll even need to go to the greenwood for a while. It will simply be a last retreat, as long as I have the manor.”
And how long will that be? But she does not ask this question. They both know.
He does not ask for her help. He doesn’t need to. She will give it unquestioningly, unasked.… (more)
“I’ll wear a hood, perhaps something over my face. They’ll guess, of course, but they won’t have proof. I’ll have my men wear the same.”
“No women?” She cannot help but ask.
“If you can find me another of your skill.”
She keeps her hands folded in her lap.
“I doubt I’ll even need to go to the greenwood for a while. It will simply be a last retreat, as long as I have the manor.”
And how long will that be? But she does not ask this question. They both know.
He does not ask for her help. He doesn’t need to. She will give it unquestioningly, unasked.… (more)
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Marian's a ward of the well-meaning sheriff in this one, and Robin Hood, well, he's not quite what the legends make him out to be.