He could smell the sea, and as the mist began to dissipate he could see it, a line of gray motion closer than he had imagined. His slippers were covered with sand, and cold water was seeping up the bottoms of his pajamas. When the sun rose, Alistair Berkowitz realized that he was standing on a beach. the sun rises in an ecstasy of brightness Professor Berkowitz Stands on the Threshold Theodora Goss She has been a finalist for the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and Mythopoeic Awards, as well as on the Tiptree Award Honor List, and has won the World Fantasy and Rhysling Awards.
Her publications include the short story collection In the Forest of Forgetting (2006) Interfictions (2007), a short story anthology coedited with Delia Sherman and Voices from Fairyland (2008), a poetry anthology with critical essays and a selection of her own poems. Although she grew up on the classics of English literature, her writing has been influenced by an Eastern European literary tradition in which the boundaries between realism and the fantastic are often ambiguous. Theodora was born in Hungary and spent her childhood in various European countries before her family moved to the United States. (Aug.Today’s Tuesday Fiction is by Theodora Goss. ) crafts these delicate stories with tight control and wit, in toto they become something of a moral sledgehammer. Though Goss ( The Rose in Twelve Petals and Other Stories In "Lily, with Clouds," a bohemian woman dying of cancer returns to her blue-blooded family in Virginia, where her conventional sister can't help judging her unusual life. Her sister quickly comes to understand the attraction. Other stories consider family cohesion and snobbery, as in "Sleeping with Bears," about a Southern belle who exhibits "no originality" until she marries a bear named Trout Catcher. Goss layers the Victorian tone and everyday magic of these tales with commentary on familial negotiations and the grave consequences for heedless behavior. The three linked stories, "Miss Emily Gray," "Conrad" and "Lessons with Miss Gray," turn on the character of the title, a dark Mary Poppins–like woman who exists to grant children their hearts' desires-often at a high price. Goss's collection of 16 gothic stories possesses a spare, surprising beauty, though her modern-day characters, like those in fairy tales, are constrained by the hard lessons she sets out to teach.
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