Fierce Family, Bart R. Leib (ed.), Crossed Genres Publications, 2014
Families can come in many different shapes and sizes, and levels of dysfunction. That's what these speculative fiction stories are all about.
A same-sex couple learns that an interdimensional adoption, of a newborn baby with horns, involves more than just filling out some forms and hosting a home visit from a social worker. A struggling single mother takes her young daughter to a local carnival. There she finds a vendor whose ice cream has a very unique side effect.
A family-run interstellar freighter/salvage ship is attacked by space pirates. There is a story or two set on worlds with human colonies. A young man in the hospital after a major auto accident is visited by the spirit of a dead uncle.
Individually, these stories are really good. They do a very good job at showing the many definitions of the word "family." Put together, this collection is very much recommended.
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