Her mewls held no menace, her mouth was toothless and birdline. Her eyes were green as the tidepools and filled with life.
I’d been scared that Carling would be born a shark, but she wasn’t, I soon satisfied myself of that. The phrase, like butter melting on toast, seeped into Sal. Sal, who had always been an atheist and a practitioner of science, mathematics, and calculable randomness, heard her voice declare without hesitation, “Yes. “Do you think that maybe all this was meant to happen so that we could meet?” Here are a couple of my favorite passages: A few are just stunningly, dazzlingly, take-your-breath-away beautiful. While I wouldn’t say that all the pieces are hits, none are misses, either. If you’re looking for vivid characters and situations, this collection has it in spades. The overall execution is marvelous I’ve been turning these stories over in my head for weeks now, and I’m still not sick of it. This puts us in a position to uncover distinctively queer, distinctively woman-centered horrors, and bring life to empathy-worthy victims and villains rarely seen before.” Yes, yes, and yes. With subject matter ranging from vampires to pubic lice, this coolly creepy collection is the perfect paperback to pick up as Halloween draws near.Īs Dawn notes in the introduction, “ Fist’s contributor’s know what it means to operate outside of the norm. Kobo eBook (September 6th, 2010): $22.Fist of the Spider Woman, edited by Amber Dawn, is an anthology of 16 poems and short stories written in the queer space where fear meets desire.She's after a larger vision that raises questions about the entire emotionally fraught edifice of our received beliefs about sex, men and women, roles and rights and abuses." The Globe and Mail (One of the Best Books of 2010) Product Details She knows we know that pain is real, that women are made chattels, that masters are cruel. Amber Dawn keeps the proceedings at a darkly whimsical remove from the real hurts of the world. "Amber Dawn's story is a sinister fairy tale, as intoxicating as any of the Glories but also an allegory for the emotional hazards of sex work." Bust Lock Mary Gaitskill in a closet with Francesca Lia Block and they might emerge with a map to Sub Rosa: a glorious mystery that creeps you out and then totally enchants." Michelle Tea, author of Valencia and Rose of No Man's Land Her writing is stealthy and seductive, wise and witty and clever.
It's haunting, chilling at points and then just so sweet. "Amber Dawn's Sub Rosa is a masterpiece of imagination.
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