St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (2006) (edit title/settings)

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• Various: This is a collection of short stories, characters are varied and not reoccurring.

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• “But her favorite was the Houdini fantasy. Big Red disagrees with his biographers, who say that he was driven by his longing to shuck off his mortal coil. She knows that he was all the time just searching for a box that could hold him.”

• “It's been two years. What if all the Olivia-ness has already seeped out of her and escaped into the violet welter of the clouds? Evaporated and rained down, evaporated and rained down. Olivia slicking over all the rivers and trees and dirty cities in the world. So that now there is only silt, and our stupid, salt-diluted longing. And nothing of our sister left to find.”

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• I had almost forgotten this occipital sorrow, the way you are so alone with the things you see in dreams.

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• I wondered what it would be like to be bred in captivity, and always homesick for a dimly sensed forest, the trees you’ve never seen.

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• My mom says I’m destined to be the sort of man who uses big words but pronounces them incorrectly.

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• It’s that dread, half-second lapse in the morning that gets me, when time’s still just a jumble of tenses at the foot of the bed.

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• That’s the way to do it, the grown-up voices whisper. Wear your skeleton on the inside out, and keep your insect heart secret.

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• My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather. One such melting occurs in summer rain, at midnight, during the vine-green breathing time right before sleep. You have to ask the right question, throw the right rope bridge, to get there—and then bolt across the chasm between you, before your bridge collapses.

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Karen Russell (Author)

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Awards edit see section history

• James Tiptree, Jr. Award (Finalist, 2006, Honor List)

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS3618.U755 S7 2006
• Dewey: 813.6

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Short Stories › United States
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

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