Wee Bairns
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| Zine | |
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| Title: | Wee Bairns |
| Publisher: | MacWombat Press |
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| Date(s): | 1994 |
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| Fandom: | Beauty and the Beast (TV) |
| Language: | English |
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Wee Bairns is a het 72-page Beauty and the Beast anthology with fiction by Linda Mooney. It was the winner of Outstanding Short Story, TunnelCon II in 1992.
Contents
- The Value of Love (5)
- Mouse and Maytag (18) (reprinted from Chamber Cameos)
- The Dream Merchant (22) (reprinted from Castles in the Air #2)
- Dancing Water (51)
- The Curse (57)
Reactions and Reviews
Five of Mooney's stories, "bairns" orphaned: either unpublished or published in a zine that's now OOP. TwoÞincluding the fine, substantial "The Dream Merchant," a sort of Rum¬plestilskin story—are reprints. The final story, "The Curse," is non B&B, a dramatization of the B&B-like "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" from Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell II album/music video. The first story, "The Value of Love," describes C's effect on the men in her life, with a striking and appropriate illustration by Barb Gipson. "Mouse and Maytag," originally published in Chamber Cameos, is a brief, light story recounting Mouse's mishaps with a washing machine. Mouse's slightly bent ingenuity is also involved in "Dancing Water," in which he contrives to satisfy C's casually expressed wish for a fountain. With the exception of "The Dream Merchant," which won an award at TunnelCon II, the stories are pleasant rather than dramatic. Good reading, as one always expects from Mooney.[1]