Francesca Lia Block

SHORT STORIES "Blood Oranges" is a short story by Francesca Lia Block that was published in the online magazine The Barker. It is available to be read here. It is about a girl and her obsession with getting her body right through exercise, and the help she receives from Mark and Camala . . . and how she seems to need them in order to feel beautiful and worthwhile. A revised version of this was placed in the published novel Echo. "Safe Love" was published in Seventeen magazine once upon a time (well, in October 1999, on pages 106 to 113). It is about love, like the title says . . . but real love, love of self, love of the world . . . rather than just love that has to do with another person. This story is like my anthem. Read it here. "The Box" was published in the collection of short stories, Trapped! Cages of Mind and Body, edited by Lois Duncan (I like her too!). It is about anorexia, as several of her stories are, and very short. Later it was incorporated into the novel Echo as part of Echo's life. Read it here. "Winnie and Tommy" was published in the collection of short stories, Am I Blue? Coming out of the Silence, edited by Marion Dane Bauer. It is a story about a girl named Winnie and a boy named Tommy, and how things change--and don't change--for a boy-girl couple when one of them decides to accept being gay. Published as "Winnie and Cubby" in Girl Goddess #9. "Blue" was published in the collection of short stories, When I Was Your Age, which is subtitled "Original Stories about Growing Up." The story "Blue" was of course published in Girl Goddess #9 also. "Mer" was published in the collection Aqua Erotica, edited by Mary Anne Mohanraj, as well as in The Best American Erotica 2002, edited by Susie Bright. It's also in her own book Nymph. "Milagro" was published in Erotic Fantastic: The Best of Circlet Press 1992 - 2002, by Cecilia Tan. It's also in her own book Nymph. "Sleeping Beauty" is a short story published in Once Upon a Time: Erotic Fairy Tales For Women, edited by Michael Ford. I have not looked at this so I don't know if it's original for this publication or if it has been published before under another title. She does have a Sleeping Beauty retelling called "Charm" in her The Rose and the Beast book, but since I have not ordered this book I don't actually know if they're the same. "Bones" is a short story published in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. It is also published in her own book The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold. Back to Francesca Lia Block Page