Of Bone and Steel and Other Soft Materials

by Annie Bellet

Overview

Eking out an existence as a scavenger in post-apocalyptic Russia, Ryska never thought she would be more than a blind, discarded military experiment. Then she ends up in the middle of a kidnapping gone wrong and must use her all her skills to save herself, and the young boy who brings back painful memories of her past.

This is a science fiction short story that originally appeared in the anthology Mirror Shards: Volume One.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940045541244
Publisher:	Doomed Muse Press
Publication date:	12/27/2011
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	NOOK Book
Sales rank:	155,582
File size:	162 KB

About the Author

Annie Bellet is a full-time speculative fiction writer. She holds a BA in English and a BA in Medieval Studies and thus can speak a smattering of useful languages such as Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Welsh.

She has sold fiction to AlienSkin Magazine, Contrary Magazine, and Daily Science Fiction Magazine. She's also collected a healthy stack of Honorable Mentions and placed as Semi-finalist in the Writers of the Future contest.

She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and a very demanding Bengal cat.