Herself (from Uptown Local and Other Interventions)
ETA: As it's no longer Bloomsday -- the day Irish people (and visitors from around the world) celebrate James Joyce and his unforgettable character Leopold Bloom's famous fictional day in Dublin -- Diane Duane's Dublin-based novella Herself is no longer free for you to download. Our apologies if you missed the cutoff time.
If you're still interested in reading the story, it appears as part of DD's short fiction collection Uptown Local and Other Interventions, which you can purchase below.
In this tale of a Dublin where the Fair People go about their lives like everybody else (or try to), a mortal ally with the Seeing gift discovers that they're being targeted by a deadly threat of the modern world. Their only hope of survival is to raise the dead -- not in general: just one very important dead person -- and discover whether he can save a vital part of Irish life from being destroyed forever. But will the cure be worse than the disease...?
ETA: As it's no longer Bloomsday -- the day Irish people (and visitors from around the world) celebrate James Joyce and his unforgettable character Leopold Bloom's famous fictional day in Dublin -- Diane Duane's Dublin-based novella Herself is no longer free for you to download. Our apologies if you missed the cutoff time.
If you're still interested in reading the story, it appears as part of DD's short fiction collection Uptown Local and Other Interventions, which you can purchase below.
In this tale of a Dublin where the Fair People go about their lives like everybody else (or try to), a mortal ally with the Seeing gift discovers that they're being targeted by a deadly threat of the modern world. Their only hope of survival is to raise the dead -- not in general: just one very important dead person -- and discover whether he can save a vital part of Irish life from being destroyed forever. But will the cure be worse than the disease...?