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Leah Bobet is a prolific short story author, in addition to being the editor of Ideomancer Speculative Fiction. She is also very, very funny, as evidenced by her story "The Parable of the Shower".

Lisa Mantchev is the author of Eyes Like Stars (Powell's) (Amazon), Act I of the Theatre Illuminata trilogy, one of the most delightful YA novels I've read in some time.  She also has an extensive collection of short story credits.

Award-winning author Catherynne Valente is posting a charming serialized fairy tale, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, on her website. (more info here)  Also head over to Clarkesworld for her story "The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew".

Marie Brennan offers a broad sampling of short stories and novel excerpts here. Donations are welcomed to support original-to-the-website projects like "Deeds of Men", which is set in the Onyx Court universe featured in her novels Midnight Never Come (Powell's) (Amazon) and In Ashes Lie (Powell's) (Amazon).