Nina Kiriki Hoffman
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Legacy of Fire, 1990 "A Legacy of Fire"
| Amazing Stories, Jan 1989
| "Drawing on the Kitchen Table"
| Snapdragon V7#1 Fall 1983
| "Savage Breasts"
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Pulphouse #2, Winter 1988
| Got this in The Best of Pulphouse and read
it. Almost died laughing and have had several of the women I work with
read the story and they now really believe I'm weird!
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The Best of Pulphouse, 1988
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Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves, 1991
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Witpunk, 2003
| "Tremors"
| Fantasy & Terror #2, 1984
| "Universal Donor"
| "The Black Knitting Needle"
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Courting Disasters, 1991
| A Pre-civil war white girl learns love and hate from the slave
vodoun woman who killed her immediate family.
| "Measuring Up to Shadows"
| The Argonaut #12, 1985
| "Coming Home"
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4th Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 1991
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100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories, 1991
| "Works of Art"
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And Other Strange Affinities, 1991 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Voices in a Sheleter Home" | Amazing Stories, March 1991 | A woman moves into a house formerly used as a shelter for
abused women with a painter who's hired her as a model. I a 'past life'
(before 'growing safe') she'd lived as a battered escaped wife. Her
husband found her and did something horrible enough that the shelter
was closed, the house sold and is now haunted.
While painting her, the painter is driven near mad by the screams and
sobbing only he can hear.
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| "Waiting for the Hunger" | Doom City, 1986 | A vampress kidnaps a diet-fad specialist... she's distressed by an
'eating disorder' --she's so glutted she looks pregnant.
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| "The Glass Mountain" | Kalliope v7#1&2, 1985 | A neo-pagan take on the Norweigan folktale of the Glass Mountain.
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 "Lost Lives"
[Chapel Hollow] | The Clarion Awards, 1984 | A teenage orphan finds out what happens when you let your personality be
totally subverted by familial bullies. With the help of one of these
'persons'-- Hannah -- and his aunt he avoids that dissipation of self.
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| Common Threads, 1995 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "The Open Air My Grave" | Wet Visions: The Rainthology, 1988 | A selkie sets her son free!
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| "Variations on a Scream" | Grue #9, 1988 | A little girl finds out that life is beautiful after seeing what dead is
like. A moon goddess rescues an innocent sacrifice to the dark.
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| "A Night Out" | Tales By Moonlight 1983 | A Werewolf goes to the school of human thought.
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| "The Black Knitting Needle" | Legacy of Fire, 1990 | A Pre-civil war white girl learns love and hate from the slave vodoun
woman who killed her immediate family.
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| "Echoes & Mirrors" | In a society where sound-expressions are packaged, a woman
learns that screams are marketable from the man who violates women's
beauty worship.
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| "A Step Into Darkness" | | A young girl is rescued from her mother's perverted boyfriend by an
extraterrestrial witch.
| 19 pages "Housewife" | *NC17*
Pulphouse #9, Fall 1990
| A NC-17 rated story about a woman who accepts a house as a substitute
for a husband.
| 13 pages. "Compandroid"
| SF Review v1#3 Fall 1990
| The tale of an android's four-step program: from sex-android, to nanny-
droid, to husband-droid to human-droid.
| 16 pages. "Little Once"
| Weird Tales #292 Fall 1988
| A sexually-sick woman gives birth to a 'monster'.
| 4 pages.
Best of Weird Tales, 1995
| "Hushabye"
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Pulphouse #Five, Fall 1989
| A woman's anguish at her sterility.
| 2 pages. Pulphouse #0 March 1, 1991
| "Family Tree"
| Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine: 8, 1990
| A 'grower' family is helped in their quest to avoid extinction by their
ancestor.
| 16 pages. "Out of Hand"
| Dragon Magazine, #132 April 1988
| A painter's apprentice learns of the challenges associated with having
her creations come to life.
| 14 pages. "Rumors of Greatness"
| Weird Tales #300 Spring 1991
| A woman learns the price of her baby's greatness-there is no greatness
without ghosts.
| 5 pages.
| "Exact Change"
[Chapel Hollow] Weird Tales #299 Winter, 1990
| Some of the Chapel Hollow kids learn of the threats facing
normals -- and how good it feels to help.
| 10 pages. Common Threads, 1995
| "Courting Disasters"
| Weird Tales #294 June 1989
| A suicidal man drives his Ferarri into a redwood. Somehow
this melding of flesh, metal and wood allows the three beings (man, car
and tree) to become one in order to experience what the others feel.
| 25 pages.
Best of Weird Tales, 1995
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A collection of mostly original stories about the characters in The Thread that Binds the Bones, plus the text of the novel. 
"Fairy Tale"
| Gifts of the Spirit, 1990
| "Prayers"
| "Lost Lives"
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Courting Disasters
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The Clarion Awards, 1984
| "Light Search" |
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"Exact Change"
| Weird Tales Winter 1990
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Courting Disasters
| "Birth Day"
| Gifts of the Spirit, 1990
| "Wishmas" ["Tinsel"]
| The Ordeal of Christmas, 1990
| "Tripptych" |
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"Snow Angel"
| World Horror Convention 1996 Program Book, 1996
| The Thread that Binds the Bones
| "Christmas Eve"
| Gifts of the Spirit, 1990
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"Ghost Gift"
| "What Ghost is This, Who, Laid to Rest..."
| Christmas Spirits, 1991
| "The Sixty-Foot Man"
| "Invitation"
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| | "The Skeleton Key"
| *Finalst for Nebula award Best Novellette, 1994 Fantasy & Science Fiction, Aug 1993
| "[The Skeleton Key] deals with a horrific event in a non-gruesome
manner. Its fantastic elements belong to the Greek rather than the
European tradition. Despint the mixing of Devil worship, death, and the
Greek God Hermes, the story's warmth is reminiscent of the best in young
adult fiction. Unclassifiable and touching, "The Skeleton Key is Nina
Kiriki Hoffman at her best."
| "Objects of Desire"
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Alien Pets, 1998
| "Unleashed"
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The Ultimate Werewolf, 1991
| "Mint Condition"
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Past Imperfect, 2001
| "Night Life"
| Fantasy & Science Fiction Aug 2000
| "Entertaining Possibilities"
| "Toobychubbies"
| "When you have two kids who are less than four years old,
you view the Toobychubbies as a godsend. No matter how good your
intentions are to be the best mother in the universe, you have a finite
amount of energy, and the kids are perpetual motion machines."
| "Haunted Humans"
| *Finalist for Nebula, Best Novella, 1994 Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jul 1994
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ElectricStory.net
| "Egg Shells"
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Bruce Coville's Strange Worlds
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"Transitions"
"Airborn"
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