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Lucy has written over 30 short stories. Several have been nominated for or won awards. Three books collecting some of her short stories have been published, while other short stories have been published in a wide variety of anthologies and magazine.

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Albert & Victoria/ Slow Dreams

This story about New Zealand’s glaciers and their naming has been published in Baggage ed Gillian Pollack (Eneit Press 2010) Buy Baggage from Eneit Press.

My Lady Tongue & Other Tales

The Man Hanged Upside Down	Reprinted in Tales of Magic Realism by Women ed. S. Sturgis (Crossing Press, US).
Quartet in Death Minor	Reprinted in The Oxford Book of Australian Ghost Stories ed. K Gelder.
Montage	Reprinted in Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies
My Lady Tongue	Ditmar winner 1989, reprinted four times.
Red Ochre	Lucy's first film option! Reprinted twice, including the upcoming Australis Imaginarium ed. Tehani Wesley (Fablecroft, 2010)
The Parish and Mrs Brown	Reprinted in Glass Reptile ed. Van Ikin (CSAL)
Go-To	Translated into Japanese, Hayakawa’s SF magazine
The Lipton Village Society	This story led to a letter from a children’s editor suggesting Lucy write in that genre - "So I did!"
God and Her Black Sense of Humour	A story about vampire groupies

A Tour Guide in Utopia

Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies	Originally published in the World Fantasy-award winner Dreaming Down Under ed. Dann and Webb
The Queen of Erewhon	Originally in F&SF, appeared in Year’s Best SF 5 (2000) ed. Hartwell
The Gloaming	Set around Melbourne’s General Cemetery. Originally illustrated by Trudi Canavan
La Sentinelle	Won two awards, shortlisted for the IHG
A Tour Guide in Utopia	Originally ‘commissioned’ by The Bulletin, reprinted in The Australian Women’s Stories ed. K. Goldsworthy (OUP)
Kay and Phil	Reprinted in The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (won the World Fantasy Award against "She’s Fantastical")
The Lottery	Originally ‘commissioned’ by The Bulletin
The Ghost of Mrs Rochester	Originally illustrated by Shaun Tan
Merlusine
Frozen Charlottes	Selected for The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 18 (eds. Datlow, Link & Grant), also Encounters ed. B. Oakley
Runaway
Absolute Uncertainty	Appeared in F&SF, translated into Czech and Polish

Absolute Uncertainty

A similar lineup to "A Tour Guide in Utopia", but with the addition of:

Duchess	About Margaret Cavendish, the utopia-writing Duchess of Newcastle and fashionista
A Small Star of Cold	Also published as "The Revenant". The Revenant was published in Eidolon I.
A Sentimental, Sordid Education	The product of a sudden fascination with Cabaret Voltaire

Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: the essential Lucy Sussex

The best of the previous anthologies, with one addition

Merlusine
Kay & Phil
My Lady Tongue
The Lottery
Robots & Zombies, Inc.
Duchess
Montage
Albert & Victoria/Slow Dreams

Short stories published in other anthologies

The Parish and Mrs Brown	Dreamworks: Strange New Stories (Norstrilia Press, 1983)
The Lipton Village Society	Strange Attractors (Hale & Iremonger, 1985)
Montage	Urban Fantasies (Ebony Books, 1985)
My Lady Tongue	Matilda at the Speed of Light (Angus & Robertson Childrens, 1988)
The Bogeyman	Spine Chilling: Ten Horror Stories (Omnibus, 1992)
The Lottery	The Lottery: Nine Science Fiction Stories (Omnibus, 1994)
Kay and Phil	Alien Shores (Aphelion, 1994) reprinted in The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy By Women (Penguin, 1997)
The Lady with the Ermine	Strange Fruit: Tales of the Unexpected (Penguin, 1995)
The Ghost of Mrs Rochester	Eidolon #21, Autumn 1996
Adeline	Aurealis #18 (1996)
Merlusine	The Horns of Elfland (Penguin, 1997)
Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies	Dreaming Down-Under (Tor Books, 1998)
The Queen of Erewhon	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction September 1999
The Morgue	Tales from the Wasteland: Stories from the 13th Floor (Hodder Headline, 2000)
The Gloaming	Eidolon No.29/30, Autumn 2000
Absolute Uncertainty	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction April 2001
The Work of Giants — Minimus' story	The Road to Camelot (Random House Australia, 2002)
Frozen Charlottes	Forever Shores (Wakefield Press, 2003)
Runaway	Agog! Terrific Tales (Agog! Press, 2003) (also known as Runaways)
La Sentinelle	Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural (Sandglass Enterprises, 2003)
Matricide	The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy: Volume Two (Mirrordanse Books, 2005)
The Revenant	Eidolon I (Eidolon Books, 2006)
Mist and Murder	New Ceres #2 (Twelfth Planet Press, 2007). Winner of the Julius Vogel Award 1998 for Best Short Story. Translated into Russian
Ardent Clouds	About volcanos and their lovers, appeared in The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy ed. Datlow (Del Ray, 2008)
Robots and Zombies, Inc	Published in Dreaming Again (Eos, 2008) ed. Dann. Do you want to know the truth about Ronald Reagan, Princess Diana and Margaret Thatcher?
Riot on the State Library Lawn	Books behaving badly… Published in Overland in short form. Contact Lucy for the longer, better form.
Something Better than Death	Aurealis #42 (2009). About the musicians of Bremen, a Grimm tale retold without a skerrick of Freud. Reprinted in Cat Tales (ed. Datlow)

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