Oceans

by Marjorie Sandor

“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 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.

24 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 11, 2020

About the author

Marjorie Sandor is the author of four books, and most recently, the editor of the anthology The Uncanny Reader: Stories from the Shadows. Her other books include The Late Interiors: A Life Under Construction (2011), as well as a story collection, Portrait of my Mother, Who Posed Nude in Wartime, which won the 2004 National Jewish Book Award in Fiction, and an essay collection, The Night Gardener: A Search for Home won the 2000 Oregon Book Award for literary non-fiction. Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, AGNI, The Hopkins Review and The Harvard Review among others. She lives in Corvallis, Oregon, where she teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Oregon State University.