
Tornado
When award-winning author Mary Anne Mohanraj learned she had breast cancer, she immediately began recording the details in her blog. Tornado is her honest, day-by-day account of diagnosis, chemo, surgery, radiation, and reconstruction, over a three-year period.
One out of eight women gets breast cancer. You know someone who has it, or work with someone, or may have been diagnosed yourself. This is a book for all of us, but especially for anyone facing a breast cancer diagnosis for yourself, or for someone you love.

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I finally decided to try it
I’ve been here long enough that the hostas are proliferating — I’ve known for a while that they’re edible, and that people like the early shoots for a sort of leek-like flavor, but I never quite felt like I had enough hostas that I was willing to sacrifice some shoots. But I finally decided to try it — easy to do, just made up an omelette with what I had in the fridge. I’d say


Pulmonaria / lungwort starting to bloom.
Pulmonaria / lungwort starting to bloom. Lovely perennial for shade. People used to think it was good for your lungs (because they thought it looked like lungs, see ‘doctrine of signatures’), hence the name, but it is NOT good for your lungs, so please do not try to use it to treat yourself!

They’ll be nice in jewelry
First violets! Love having these all through the lawn. Will likely start collecting and pressing some today. They’ll be nice in jewelry.
The story of
Mary Anne Mohanraj
Mary Anne Mohanraj is author of A Feast of Serendib, Bodies in Motion, The Stars Change, and twelve other titles. Other recent publications include stories for George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards series, Perennial: A Garden Romance (Tincture), stories at Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, and Lightspeed, and an essay in Roxane Gay’s Unruly Bodies.
Mohanraj founded Hugo-nominated and World Fantasy Award-winning speculative literature magazine Strange Horizons, and serves as Executive Director of both DesiLit (desilit.org) and the Speculative Literature Foundation (speclit.org). She is Clinical Associate Professor of fiction and literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago. www.maryannemohanraj.com