Artificial Hearts

ARTIFICIAL HEARTS is a bewitching collection of young adult short stories, ranging from science fiction to fantasy, all featuring a lesbian heroine. This collection is part of Project Unicorn, a fiction project that seeks to address the near nonexistence of lesbian main characters in young adult fiction by giving them their own stories. This collection contains:- Nickel Pony (Magic Realism)As a little girl, Helena thought the nickel pony outside of the dollar store gave her good luck: then it went away, and took her good luck with it. Now, when her world is slowly crumbling again, a girl in an arcade brings back unexpected magic- The Ember Heart (Fantasy)At the Festival of Stars, Alethia carries a heart in a lantern, moving with the others in an ancient ritual of love- Flotsam (Science Fiction)Chris, and her little brother Raz, live in the Broken Streets down by the dock-where the dead bodies of Chematech's imperfect clones are flushed out. Every day, Chris and Raz pick over the bodies for parts they can sell…until Chris finds a body unlike the others. A girl who's alive- Anchor Me (Fantasy [Steampunk])Isadora has the extreme fortune of inheriting her grandfather's airship containing an automaton navigation system named Rosie, who happens to be much more to Isadora than a Steampunk GPS- Violina (Science Fiction)Built to be a living work of art, Violina is the most beautiful Musiton-a musical instrument automaton-to have ever been created. But when a deadly virus begins to wipe out humankind, she can no longer find the golddust that powers her, and is in danger of extinction, too- For I am Fearless (Horror)An orphan girl wakes to find she is no longer herself but a stitched-together monster. As she remembers the events that brought her to this moment, she fans a flame of courage within her new heart- Perfect (Science Fiction)Bonnie has everything a modern girl could ask for: a nice house, friends, and genetically engineered perfection. But then she meets Sylvi