“ Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place. ” ― Rumi
Athena's Daughters is a collection of short fiction by women about women from some of the best writers in science fiction and fantasy today.From a young girl facing a life-threatening crisis at lunar camp to a crew of elderly women graced with the power o