The Thorn and the Blossom: A Two-Sided Love Story (9 page)

They would not live happily ever after, because no one did that. But they would be together, and that was enough.

T
heodora Goss won the World Fantasy Award in 2008 for her short story “Singing of Mount Abora.” Her publications include the 2006 short-story collection
In the Forest of Forgetting
;
Interfictions
, a 2008 short-story anthology coedited with Delia Sherman; and
Voices from Fairyland
, a 2008 poetry anthology featuring critical essays and a selection of her own poems. She has been a finalist for the Nebula, Crawford, Locus, and Mythopoeic awards and has appeared on the Tiptree Award Honor List. Her work has repeatedly been showcased in “Year’s Best” anthologies. She lives in Boston, where she teaches literature and writing at Boston University.