In 1985, Deborah J. Ross sold her first Darkover short story to Marion Zimmer Bradley's Free Amazons of Darkover. "Midwife" relates the adventures of a young woman who inadvertently becomes the surrogate mother of a banshee chick -- a smelly, sightless, carnivorous bird. Bradley featured Ross's short stories - dramatic, bittersweet, romantic, and humorous - in subsequent anthologies, and often cited Ross's turnabout-twist story, "The Death of Brendon...