Anna Tambour has most generously chosen to reprint my story "On the Blindside" (Flytrap #4) at her website. It won't go up until October, but I figure that if I warn everyone now, you will have plenty of time to start running by the time the dead month blows into town. I am particularly pleased with this because "On the Blindside” is an uncollected story; and because it has received a certain amount of critical notice, which startled me like anything. Rich Horton recommended it in the August 2005 issue of Locus:
Taaffe also contributed "On the Blindside" to the May Flytrap. Sam is a woman about to get married, confronted with a lover who still has a hold on her. The intensely written story slowly reveals the nature of Sam's lover—a familiar trope—then surprises us with a slight reversal of expected power relationships.
. . . and Nick Gevers didn't seem to have hated it, either:
A gentler but no less effective examination of the cloying effects of the fantastic: Sonya Taaffe's "On the Blindside," about a married woman desperate to rub off the taint of her old association with Faerie; Taaffe captures perfectly the eroded charm of childhood fancies re-examined in adulthood.
All of which made me extraordinarily happy. (The story has also, to be fair, received an impressively negative review at LitHaven. Universal balance is maintained.) And come the first of October, you can wander on over to the Virtuous Medlar Circle and decide: effectively intense or unfinishably overwritten? Your call.
(Cut for my own thoughts on the story and others. Deconstruction and footnotes ahoy!)
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Taaffe also contributed "On the Blindside" to the May Flytrap. Sam is a woman about to get married, confronted with a lover who still has a hold on her. The intensely written story slowly reveals the nature of Sam's lover—a familiar trope—then surprises us with a slight reversal of expected power relationships.
. . . and Nick Gevers didn't seem to have hated it, either:
A gentler but no less effective examination of the cloying effects of the fantastic: Sonya Taaffe's "On the Blindside," about a married woman desperate to rub off the taint of her old association with Faerie; Taaffe captures perfectly the eroded charm of childhood fancies re-examined in adulthood.
All of which made me extraordinarily happy. (The story has also, to be fair, received an impressively negative review at LitHaven. Universal balance is maintained.) And come the first of October, you can wander on over to the Virtuous Medlar Circle and decide: effectively intense or unfinishably overwritten? Your call.
(Cut for my own thoughts on the story and others. Deconstruction and footnotes ahoy!)
( Read more... )
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