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ZOWS

Mackenzie Reide

First published July 2019
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story
Series ZOWS

A teenage runaway lives secretly in the ducts of a remote space station with her sidekick, George, a smart hoover vacuum cleaner. When pirates invade the station Hannah must use her engineering skills to outwit the pirates and stop the station from going supernova. —from the author's web site


• Approximately 6,500 words.
• Apart from one location, "ZOWS" is consistently formatted in all-caps. The one exception is the story's text heading on its title page in the Brave New Girls paperback anthology (2019), which uses a unicase font that does not distinguish between upper- and lowercase.
• An email from the author on 2025-10-25 confirmed that she thinks of the titles the ZOWS series as being in all caps.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
July 2019 Cover Adventures of Gals and Gizmos Anthology 56
July 2019 Cover Adventures of Gals and Gizmos Brave New Girls Anthology |56