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The Snake Girl

John Kessel

First published April 2008
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

A young college student has a difficult first romance. In the afterword to the story when published in "The Collected Kessel", Kessel states that he wrote a non-genre story in answer to a challenge from a non-SF writer.

First published in The North Carolina Literary Review 15, Fall 2006.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
April 2008 Cover The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories Small Beer Press Collection 197
April 2008 Cover The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories Small Beer Press Collection 197
April 2008 The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories Small Beer Press Collection 197
November 2012 Cover The Collected Kessel Baen Books Collection