The Rose in Twelve Petals & Other Stories
A poetry and short story collection. Cover art by Charles Vess.
No.9 in the limited edition Small Beer Press chapbook series is The Rose in Twelve Petals & Other Stories by Theodora Goss. Goss is one of the strongest and most distinctive voices to appear in recent years. She has very quickly made a name for herself: her stories have been reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror as well as Year's Best Fantasy and her poem "Octavia Is Lost in the Hall of Masks" has just won the Rhysling Award. Goss's stories reach across and through genres. She utilizes fairy-tale structures and post-modern motifs all the while building through increments a beautiful body of work.
Contents:
- The Rose in Twelve Petals
- The Rapid Advance of Sorrow
- Professor Berkowitz Stands on the Threshold
- Lily, With Clouds
- Her Mother's Ghosts
- What Her Mother Said (poem)
- Chrysanthemums (poem)
- The Ophelia Cantos (poem)
- That Year (poem)
- The Bear's Daughter (poem)
- Bears (poem)
- Helen in Sparta (poem)
- By Tidal Pools (poem)
- The Changeling (poem)
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Theodora Goss
Theodora Goss is a Hungarian American writer of fantasy short stories. Her stories have been nominated for major awards: "Pip and the Fairies" for the Nebula Award in 2007, and "The Wings of Meister Wilhelm" was nominated for the 2005 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction. She won the 2004 Rhysling Award for Best Long Poem for "Octavia is Lost in the Hall of Masks." Her collection In the Forest of Forgetting was published in 2006 by Prime Books.
In 2008, her story "The Singing of Mount Abora" won the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction. The story was originally published in the spelling-bee inspired anthology Logorrhea.
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