Bird Bones and Wood Ash Summary
Charles de Lint

Bird Bones and Wood Ash Summary

De Lint offers an unusual take on comic book superheroes, noting the cost to their lives a fanatical pursuit of evildoers entails, and he presents a new slant on what sort of superpowers such a hero would need. In "Bird Bones and Wood Ash," a woman is given unusual superpowers when she enters a fairy circle, and she uses these powers to hunt down child molesters and abusers. Her obsession with putting an...

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