Silly, but worth trying...

[ricevermicelli]

People keep asking what they can do, or what I'd like, and this here? It's ridiculous. It's not really helpful at all, but it would be a pleasant distraction, and also might keep me from going completely spare before I even get out of the hospital.

I'm looking for Ysabeau Wilce's short stories. They haven't been conveniently collected or anything. This is what I can find about them.

- "Metal More Attractive” (2004) appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February issue (not available through F&SF's back issues ordering, they sold it out).
- “The Lineaments of Gratified Desire” (2006) appears in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (July issue); The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, 2006, edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin Grant.
- “Quartermaster Returns” (2007) appears in Eclipse, edited by Jonathan Strahan
- “Hand in Glove” (2011) appears in Steampunk!, edited by Kelly Link and Gavin Grant.

(I didn't forget "The Biography of a Bouncing Boy Terror", that's available for download.)

Are any of you in possession of, and willing to lend, any of these publications?

Comments

[asciikitty.livejournal.com]

I'm going to repost this list elseinternet, if that's ok.

[ricevermicelli.livejournal.com]

Sure thing.

[asciikitty.livejournal.com]

If I ask on Rav, do you mind it I use your name?

[chalgaryn.livejournal.com]

Damn. The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror that I randomly picked up at a used bookstore and have sitting right next to me is 2004, not 2006. I was all hopeful there for a second.

[ricevermicelli.livejournal.com]

Go ahead.

[asciikitty.livejournal.com]

ok.

[chalgaryn.livejournal.com]

Ah, but Steampunk! is available at our local library! We could easily grab it and send you a scanned pdf.

[ricevermicelli.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[joshwriting.livejournal.com]

Metal More Attractive is on its way to you.

[joshwriting.livejournal.com]

And it turns out that contrary to Wilce's own page, “The Lineaments of Gratified Desire” is in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: 20th Annual Collection by Kelly Link, Gavin Grant and Ellen Datlow, rather than the 2006 book.

[(Anonymous)]

Woot! My penchant for collecting YBF&H's is actually useful for once in my life (as opposed to just making me hump 90 pounds of books up three flights of stairs everydamntime I move)! I have this on my bookcase at home, and I will be more than happy to scan and share.

[athenasbanquet.livejournal.com]

Er, earlier message about YBF&H is me, and I have 2007 as well. Completionism for the win!

[ricevermicelli.livejournal.com]

Thank you! That would be wonderful!

[ricevermicelli.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[chalgaryn.livejournal.com]

Dang it! In the 4 hours between the library opening and my being able to get there, someone else checked it out. So close.

[athenasbanquet.livejournal.com]

It looks like Wellesley has it, and it's not far from my office. I can grab it on my way home.

[athenasbanquet.livejournal.com]

Eclipse is there too; will grab that as well.

[chalgaryn.livejournal.com]

I think this officially makes you the winner of this scavenger hunt :-)

[athenasbanquet.livejournal.com]

Yay! For the first time in two years, I get to use my librarian powers for good!

[chalgaryn.livejournal.com]

You've been using them for evil all this time?

[ricevermicelli.livejournal.com]

If so, I want to hear *all* about it.

[athenasbanquet.livejournal.com]

I work for a corporate recruiter....nuff said.

Although I do like the idea of being an evil librarian. I would charge you overdue fines even if your books were on time! I would misfile things! I would give you badly scanned copies! I would put DVDs in the wrong jackets! I would wear shoes that squeak on linoleum! I would tell Storytime stories about the Wendigo! I would play with my ringtones at the reference desk!

....Really, I can go on.

[zellandyne.livejournal.com]

Were you able to get a hold of all of them, or are you still looking?

[ricevermicelli.livejournal.com]

Y'all came through for me spectacularly, to the tune of everything here, and bonus unpublished short emailed over by Wilce herself. It was pretty awesome.