Helena Bell

Biography

Literary career

Short fiction

• "Migrating Bears"
• "Please Return My Son Who Is in Your Custody"
• "All the Young Kirks and Their Good Intentions"
• "Robot"
• "Early Draft of Talking Points for the Sixth Emergency Broadcast with Editorial Suggestions by the Office's Unpaid Interns Bob and Isabelle"
• "Bones"
• "Entropy"
• "In Light of Recent Events I Have Reconsidered the Wisdom of Your Space Elevator"
• "Variations on Bluebeard and Dalton's Law Along the Event Horizon"
• "Sincerely, Your Psychic"
• "Partial Inventory of Items Removed from Garden District Home, New Orleans, December 2005"
• "The Aliens Made of Glass"
• "Burial"
• "In Which Faster-the-Light Travel Solves All of Our Problems"
• "The Things They Were Not Allowed to Carry"
• "Married"
• "Lovecraft"
• "Mouth"
• "Look Upon My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair "
• "When We Were Giants"
• "Needle on Bone"
• "I've Come to Marry the Princess"
• "Rescuing Napoleon"
• "Bond Girls"
• "Radium Girls"

  Poetry

• "Prince Charming"
• "Why I Learned to Cave Dive"
• "Aliens Built Table Mountain"
• ""
• "Beauty Sleep"
• "Elementary Students Explore the Universe"
• "Bluebeard's Second Wife"
• "Apple Picking"
• "Bluebeard's Third Wife"
• "Dalton's Law"
• "Cleaning the Quail"
• "A Face Like an Imperfectly Shaven Tennis Ball"

  Nonfiction

• "Never Think of Yourself as Less"

  Awards