Blade Between Oni and Hare by Siobhan Gallagher

Blade Between Oni and Hare. Fantasy. Inspired by the Japanese fable, "White Hare of Onaba." Author Siobhan Gallagher lives in south Texas and grew up in Arizona. She has a political satire piece coming up in Saturday Night Reader, and in December there'll be a podcast of her Unidentified Funny Objects story, "All I want for Christmas..." from Toasted Cake. Her author website is defconcanwrite.blogspot.com. This fable features kickass girl samurai Kazuko, and first appeared in the anthology, "Abbreviated Epics" from Third Flatiron. Story read by Marie Boyko and produced by Andrew Cairns.