Alabaster (story)

"Alabaster" is a short story by Caitlin R. Kiernan that features their recurring character Dancy Flammarion, the teenage albino monster-hunter. On March 18, 2003, Kiernan conceived of the story and completed a version of it in one day--"something I've never done before," they wrote on their online journal.CaitlinRKiernan.com, "Low Red Moon Journal," Caitlin R. Kiernan, March 18, 2003. The thousand-word short-short was published as "chapette" by Camelot Books in 2003. It was expanded into a full-length short story in 2004, which appeared in print for the first time as the title story of Kiernan's 2006 Subterranean Press collection Alabaster.
"Alabaster" is set five days after the events of "Bainbridge," and occurs before the story "Waycross." It tells the story of Dancy's encounter with a wizard who runs a Texaco station somewhere in Georgia, and with a shapeshifting panther woman that he keeps in a cage out back. The story gives one of the most detailed descriptions of Dancy's angel, referred to as one of the Seraphim.
== Publication History ==
The story also appeared in The Mammoth Book of Angels and Demons (Robinson/Running Press, 2013).Internet Speculative Fiction Database, "Title: Alabaster."
== References ==
Category:Caitlin R. Kiernan works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works