About the Book
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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