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Home Generica Once Upon a Dyke - Lammy Finalist

Finalist - Best LGBT Fantasy.

Lambda Literary Awards

Once Upon a Dyke: New Exploits of Fairy Tale Lesbians

This collection of four novellas was a finalist at the 2004 Lambda Literary Awards for LGBT Fantasy. The book contains an earlier, shorter version of “A Fish Out of Water.”

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