Romance, pregnancy, time travel, supervillains & the best/worst ob-gyn

October 6, 2020 5:12 PM

Two scifi/fantasy stories, both from 2009, about women superheroes. "Ms. Liberty Gets a Haircut" by Cat Rambo is light: "They have gone through twenty-two candidates, making notes, asking questions. The twenty-third arrives, dressed in black and steel." "Origin" by Ari Goelman is alternately silly and serious: "'I should never date other supers,' I say, not for the first time. I put my hand on my stomach. Crap. I can barely keep a spider plant alive. There's no way I'm ready to be a mother."
posted by brainwane (3 comments total)

Just an aside, I really appreciate these short story recs as a distraction from current events.
Is there any shared search term or tag I can use to find all the past posts?
posted by cheshyre at 5:18 PM on October 6, 2020 [1 favorite]

cheshyre: glad to hear it! I am in the habit of tagging mine with fiction, shortstory, and shortstories, plus some others. I see fellow MeFites have also used those tags a lot, so there's even more distraction in the archives! :-)
posted by brainwane at 5:26 PM on October 6, 2020 [2 favorites]

In the end they take on three provisional members: Rocketwoman, the Sphinx, and Zanycat. Three months trial membership, no health coverage until that period is past...

I see the first story is set in a dystopia.
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 9:32 PM on October 6, 2020