The Leaving Sweater: Tales From Far Beyond North
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So you think magic isn't necessary in order to leave? Think again ...
Victoria Askew doesn't want to leave remote Rolynka, Alaska when she finishes high school; it's all she's ever known. At least, not until her mother knits her the most beautiful sweater she's ever seen, a sweater imbued with magic -- a leaving sweater.
"The Leaving Sweater" is a magic realist short story of about 2500 words or 10 pages. It is in the series "Tales From Far Beyond North" and was originally published in Strange Horizons in 2007.
Ruth Nestvold
A former assistant professor of English in the picturesque town of Freiburg on the edge of the Black Forest, Ruth Nestvold has given up theory for imagination. The university career has been replaced by a small software localization business, and the Black Forest by the parrots of Bad Cannstatt, where she lives with her fantasy, her family, her books and no cats in a house with a turret. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous markets, including Asimov's, F&SF, Baen's Universe, Strange Horizons, Scifiction, and Gardner Dozois's Year's Best Science Fiction. Her fiction has been nominated for the Nebula, Tiptree, and Sturgeon Awards. In 2007, the Italian translation of her novella "Looking Through Lace" won the "Premio Italia" award for best international work. Her novel Flamme und Harfe appeared in translation with the German imprint of Random House, Penhaligon, in 2009 and has since been translated into Dutch and Italian.
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The Leaving Sweater - Ruth Nestvold
The Leaving Sweater
A Short Story in the Series Tales From Far Beyond North
by
Ruth Nestvold
Copyright 2007, 2013 by Ruth Nestvold
Cover by Britta Mack and Ruth Nestvold
Title image by ollyy, licensed through Shutterstock.
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The Leaving Sweater
was originally published in Strange Horizons, 2007.
The Leaving Sweater
Growing up in remote Rolynka, Alaska, in the middle of the last century, Victoria Askew never really learned the trick of how to leave. Leaving was not an easy thing to do on the Seward Peninsula. There was nothing within hundreds of miles except ocean and tundra and a few Eskimo villages and former gold-rush towns. The only way out was by plane or dog sled, and the latter, of course, only in the winter — not that Vicky had ever left that way. There were three hundred miles' worth of roads leading from Rolynka, but they all led in