by Sonya Taaffe
In Forget the Sleepless Shores readers should expect to be captivated by many ghosts and spirits who inhabit brine, some from tears of heartache and loss, some from strange bodies of water, not necessarily found on the map but definitely discovered through charting a course though the perilous straits of author Taaffe's imagination, which is eerie and queer (by every definition of the word).
Forget the Sleepless Shores
Sonya Taaffe is possessed of a singular and brilliant voice, one I have admired (and envied) since I first read her work more than a decade ago. Few living authors have brought to the task of building fantasy and science fiction her keen eye for the intricacies of the sublime and the terrible, the erotic and the weird. Fewer still have approached this work with such an undeniable talent. It is not an exaggeration to say she takes my breath away, like a plunge into deep, cold waters. —Caitlín R. Kiernan, World Fantasy and Stoker Award-winning author of The Drowning Girl
Conscience stalks Oppenheimer as a golem of nuclear glass; passion is laid bare beneath a peat bog; fall and fire claim their own. A girl is moth-light to a throng of ghosts. The sea calls, endlessly imperative. The water chooses whom to drown. In Sonya Taaffe's vivid cinema of metamorphoses, the elements themselves have eyes. Watch now and wonder. —Greer Gilman, World Fantasy and James Tiptree Jr. Award-winning author of Cloud & Ashes
Taaffe is a bard on the same shoreline as Marge Piercy, perfect turns of poetry weaving ghosts and sirens down coasts at once familiar and strange. Her exiles, human and otherwise, tell tales of intimate diaspora, intimately observed. I paused often to savor descriptions that captured an experience made new, and lay awake later, word-haunted by these stories. —Ruthanna Emrys, author of Deep Roots
Sonya Taaffe's writing is prose concentrate that, when reconstituted in the vehicle of your mind, leaves you fully sated, fully nourished. Savor the stories of Forget the Sleepless Shores the way you'd contemplate a long-anticipated wine: slowly, languorously, your mind volleying between sensual delight and critical appreciation. And keep savoring: Taaffe's unforgettable mix of poetic language, scientific precision, and microscopic analysis of human longing is simultaneously bountiful and never enough. —Carlos Hernandez, author of The Assimilated Cuban's Guide to Quantum Santeria
- Teinds • (2007) • short story by Sonya Taaffe
- Chez Vous Soon • (2006) • short story by Sonya Taaffe
- Little Fix of Friction • (2005) • short story by Sonya Taaffe
- On the Blindside • (2005) • short story by Sonya Taaffe
- Notes Toward the Classification of the Lesser Moly • (2007) • short story by Sonya Taaffe
- Another Coming • (2004) • short story by Sonya Taaffe
- Last Drink Bird Head • (2009) • short story by Sonya Taaffe
- The Boatman's Cure • (2015) • novelette by Sonya Taaffe
- The Dybbuk in Love • (2005) • novelette by Sonya Taaffe
- Like Milkweed • (2014) • short story by Sonya Taaffe
- Imperator Noster • (2016) • short story by Sonya Taaffe
- The Salt House • (2007) • short fiction by Sonya Taaffe
- And Black Unfathomable Lakes • (2013) • short story by Sonya Taaffe
- The Face of the Waters • (2018) • short fiction by Sonya Taaffe
- The Creeping Influences • (2017) • short story by Sonya Taaffe
- Drink Down • (2005) • short story by Sonya Taaffe
- Exorcisms • (2006) • short story by Sonya Taaffe
- When Can a Broken Glass Mend? • (2015) • short story by Sonya Taaffe
- On Two Streets, with Three Languages • (2015) • poem by Sonya Taaffe
- The Trinitite Golem • (2016) • short story by Sonya Taaffe
- All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts • (2015) • novelette by Sonya Taaffe
- The Depth Oracle • (2006) • short story by Sonya Taaffe