"The old seed lived on a watery bed, and at such times the soft swishing in her ears took on a sinister edge, the hiss of waves that tease their way to shore and catch you unawares. She taught herself one trick: when the fear rose, to go straight to the rocky shore. Fight waves with waves. Let the great sea belittle the stupid horror she couldn't abide."
Marjorie Sandor's most recent book is The Secret Music at Tordesillas, which won the Tuscarora Award for Historical Fiction (Hidden River Press, 2020). Her other books include the linked story collection Portrait of My Mother, Who Posed Nude in Wartime (Sarabande, 2003), winner of the 2004 National Jewish Book Award, and The Late Interiors (essays, Skyhorse/Arcade, 2011). She also edited the international short-story anthology The Uncanny Reader (St. Martin's Press, 2015). She lives in Corvallis, Oreg.