Only Gutter Girls and Ruined Things by Julia K. Patt

A mining town girl learns about life, larceny, and how to repair her pet: a found clockwork cat. Sarah Heiner narrates. File under: YA, steampunk, western.

Author Julia K. Patt is a writer, teacher, and editor living in Maryland. Her stories have appeared in Clarkesworld, Escape Pod, and Luna Station Quarterly, among other places. Follow her on Twitter (@chidorme) or check out her website juliakpatt.com for more.

Narrator Sarah Heiner, active in Second Life under the pseudonym of Bookworm, assisted in the editing of two of the three 'Tales from New Babbage' volumes, and has stories published in all three.  She lives in the fly-over land of Minnesota, with more books than she knows what to do with.

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