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Gun Hand: A Short Story by Resa Nelson ( ISFDB), originally published under the title Embracing the Arms She Must Bear in Science Fiction Age magazine in 1994.
In a not-too-distant future, Lynn still feels the aftershocks of the recent murder of a friend. She’s too afraid to do anything other than work and then go home and lock herself inside where she’ll be safe for the night. At least her work as a visual artist gives her a way to feel like she’s doing something worthwhile, because her current project focuses on the escalating violence against women.
On a rare night out with friends, Lynn is shocked to see the new technology adopted by female cops: a bio-mechanical gun that replaces a woman’s hand with a weapon. At first repulsed, Lynn rejects the idea. But with violence against women on a steady rise and a new law that permits any woman to get a gunhand, Lynn wonders how far she’s willing to go to save her own life.
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If Tears Were Wishes & Other Short Stories by Nebula-finalist Ruth Nestvold ( ISFDB, Wikipedia), a mini-collection of 3 shorts originally published in Fantasy magazine and Asimov's SF.
"Feather and Ring" - A game designer is on business in Taiwan, attempting to pull off the commercial deal of her lifetime. Her husband is leaving her, their company is on the verge of bankruptcy, and it looks as though a hostile takeover may ruin them. But luckily for Lindsay, magic lurks in the streets of Taipei, hidden between the skyscrapers and the constant traffic.
"Woman in Abaya With Onion" - A young woman visiting Egypt is pitted against far more than mere cultural differences when she begins to be visited by violent visions from the past.
"If Tears Were Wishes" - "The smell of industrial strength cleansers was laced with the smell of urine. In the back of her mind, through the pain and anger and fear, Brooke registered that the girls' bathroom didn't smell this way, pungent behind the clean, the traces of decades of boys and young men missing the urinals impossible to get out of the walls and the floor. The gag in her mouth tasted like dusty cotton.... She could tell from the third boy's expression that he would have hit her too if not for the vials he held. Vials which held a fortune. The rarest substance in the world: her tears."
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All 3 books of The Jeremiah Trilogy by Michael A. Smith, his sfnal AU political action thriller which posits what would happen if an extremist religious movement took over the States, set up a separatist colony, and used genetically engineered viruses for fun and profit terror and control, originally out from Tor's Forge Books imprint 1998-2000.
In this first book of a trilogy, Jeremiah, who claims to be a modern-day religious prophet, begins killing the "evil ones"--pedophiles, bullies and rapists, prison inmates, stock market manipulators and crooked politicians. At the same time, he progressively publishes on the Internet a new book of the Christian Bible revealed to him by God. It demands strict adherence to God's commandments: "Obey or die!" is the general rule. Jeremiah urges his followers to create a "New America" in the Dakotas, where believers will implement God's revised plan for mankind. |
Gun Hand is showing up as .99 and the first book in the Jeremiah Trilogy "Jeremiah Terrorist Prophet" comes up as $1.99. NOt bad if you get all three it still comes up to less than two bucks.
EDIT: must have been a very brief sale, because within a few minutes the prices for the Jeremiah books went back up.