Forget the Sleepless Shores
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To the music of PJ Harvey, the Klezmatics, My Favorite, Tom Waits, Jill Tracy, Lal Waterson, Peter Bellamy, and all the chanteys I could find. To the movies of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. To the ghosts named in these pages and not.
To my grandparents, Alfred and Bernice Madinek Glixman, their memories for a blessing.
To my parents, Jaime and Marika Taaffe, who always asked me to tell them a story.
μέμνημαι τόδε ἔργον ἐγὼ πάλαι οὔ τι νέον γε
ὡς ἦν: ἐν δ ̓ὑμῖν ἐρέω πάντεσσι φίλοισι.
—Iliad 9.527–528
Publication Credits
“All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts” copyright © 2016, first appeared in Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror (Dark Regions Press, ed. Lynne Jamneck) / “And Black Unfathomable Lakes” copyright © 2013, first appeared in Not One of Us #50 / “Another Coming” copyright © 2004, first appeared in Not One of Us #32 / “The Boatman’s Cure” copyright © 2015, first appeared in Ghost Signs (Aqueduct Press) / “Chez Vous Soon” copyright © 2006, first appeared in Not One of Us #35 / “The Creeping Influences” copyright © 2017, first appeared in Shimmer #39 / “The Depth Oracle” copyright © 2006, first appeared in Sirenia Digest #8 / “Drink Down” copyright © 2005, first appeared in Not One of Us #34 / “The Dybbuk in Love” copyright © 2005, first appeared as a chapbook from Prime Books / “Exorcisms” copyright © 2006, first appeared in Mythic #1 / “The Face of the Waters” copyright © 2018, first appearing in this volume / “Imperator Noster” copyright © 2016, first appeared in Genius Loci: Tales of the Spirit of Place (Ragnarok Publications, ed. Jaym Gates) / “Last Drink Bird Head” copyright © 2009, first appeared in Last Drink Bird Head (Ministry of Whimsy, ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer) / “Like Milkweed” copyright © 2014, first appeared in Not One of Us #52 / “Little Fix of Friction” copyright © 2005, first appeared in Not One of Us #33 / “Notes Toward the Classification of the Lesser Moly” copyright © 2005, first appeared in Zahir #12 / “On the Blindside” copyright © 2005, first appeared in Flytrap #4 / “On Two Streets, with Three Languages” copyright © 2015, first appeared in Interfictions #5 / “The Salt House” copyright © 2007, first appeared in Sirenia Digest #22 / “Teinds” copyright © 2007, first appeared in Strange Horizons, 10/29/07 / “The Trinitite Golem” copyright © 2016, first appeared in Clockwork Phoenix 5 (Mythic Delirium Books, ed. Mike and Anita Allen) / “When Can a Broken Glass Mend?” copyright © 2015, first appeared in Not One of Us #53
About the Author
Sonya Taaffe reads dead languages and tells living stories. She holds master’s degrees in Classics from Brandeis and Yale and writes about film for Patreon. Her short fiction and Rhysling Award-winning poetry has been previously collected in Singing Innocence and Experience, Postcards from the Province of Hyphens, A Mayse-Bikhl, and Ghost Signs. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts with her husband and two cats and remains proud of naming a Kuiper belt object.