Debbie's Spurts

Nope; this story seemed like a jillion other westerns to me.  Grimy desperado on the run at start and finish with some violence in between.  Big whoop.  I just really loathe most westerns.  Not even going to rate this story.  I really thought this collection was all fantasy and science fiction. What a letdown.  

Reading Progress:  Introduction read

Finally just starting this anthology that is just chock-full of some favorite authors.  

To quote from the introduction, these stories and these chicks are not like the books from past decades where "...women swooned helplessly while waiting to be rescued by the intrepid jut-jawed hero from everything from the dragons to the bug-eyed monsters who were always carrying them off for improbable purposes either dietary or romantic ..."

Will try to read and review each story in between new reads (just how I finish off anthologies eventually as not usually a big short story fan.

The Dangerous Women anthology contains the  following stories:
✔ ★★★★★ - Introduction by Gardner Dozois
✔ Not rating (genre = western) - “Some Desperado” by Joe Abercrombie - A Red Country story

- “My Heart is Either Broken” by Megan Abbott
- “Nora’s Song” by Cecelia Holland
- “The Hands That Are Not There” by Melinda Snodgrass
- “Bombshells” by Jim Butcher - A Harry Dresden story
- “Raisa Stepanova” by Carrie Vaughn
- “Wrestling Jesus” by Joe R. Lansdale
- “Neighbors” by Megan Lindholm (aka Robin a Hobb)
- “I Know How to Pick ’Em” by Lawrence Block
- “Shadows For Silence in the Forests of Hell” by Brandon Sanderson
- “A Queen in Exile” by Sharon Kay Penman
- “The Girl in the Mirror” by Lev Grossman - A Magicians story
- “Second Arabesque, Very Slowly” by Nancy Kress
- “City Lazarus” by Diana Rowland
- “Virgins” by Diana Gabaldon - An Outlander story
- “Hell Hath No Fury” by Sherilynn Kenyon
- “Pronouncing Doom” by S.M. Stirling - An Emberverse story
- “Name the Beast” by Sam Sykes
- “Caretakers” by Pat Cadigan
- “Lies My Mother Told Me” by Caroline Spector - A Wild Cards story
- “The Princess and the Queen” by George R.R. Martin - A Song of Ice and Fire story