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Sorry

For carrying the ghost around this long. Nineteen years weep into twenty. You’re still bleeding, wondering when dreaming turned into exhaustion. Someone comes to pick you up during a snowstorm and you find yourself crying in the back of the car, thinking about what you really shouldn’t be thinking about. And everyone knows it, how you’re broken. Though it’s close to four in the morning, you wear sunglasses and try not to imagine the car sliding on half-melted snow, its sleek body tumbling like an ice chunk into a nearby building. When you get safely to the airport, you’re half-awake, still haunted. Ghosts sift through Boston and follow you all the way to Charlotte. You meet new people soon after, in a place you can’t name, and they tell you it won’t stop unless you stop it. But the year was sixteen and now it’s seventeen and nothing hurts more than when you do it to yourself. You write little pieces about harm. People in your workshop give you looks, or perhaps you’re imagining it. At breakfast you think again of blood. You walk to class with itchy skin and worry at the calcium deposits in your flesh. Weeks later, at the doctor, you contemplate saying sorry. Say sorry, the speculum hurts because of. Say sorry, but can you tell where the tissue healed. Say long gone. The circle near your radiocarpal is almost gone and days later you’re making another. Nothing stops time. Someone tells you this, too, counts. Your feelings slip away, and you can’t find them. Soon, arms. The love is almost too much to bear. Sometimes they help melt loose frazil around your heart, other times you wonder if anyone is impacted by your presence. There’s so much to feel. It hurts. When someone asks you what happened you tell them an accident, leave it at that. You wonder if anyone’s wondering. You say sorry about the love, I wish it wasn’t mine.

Copyright © 2025 Sam Moe

Sorry” is just one of many stories in Sam Moe’s full-length short fiction collection called I Might Trust You (Experiments in Fiction). Experiments in Fiction published an interview with Sam and offers praise for her book.

Coming soon: I Might Trust You by Sam Moe

Praise for I Might Trust You

You’ve got to be so careful, gentle, careful. You’ve got to force yourself to be so soft…

In this unique and stunning short story collection, the author greets love, loss and longing head-on, and takes us on a deep-dive into the sea of human emotion.

“Sam Moe’s I Might Trust You invites readers to luxuriate in the delicious language of heartache. A master imagist, Moe allows us to step inside each experience of discovery—be that of self, lover, or other—and to linger alone with the taste of each sensual experience. Honest, vivid, passionate, these short stories will leave you simultaneously breathless with excitement and decimated by grief. Moe serves up an intimate, vulnerable array of complex emotion and delivers an incisive look at the painful truths that make each of us human.”

—Alicia Shupe, author of Beneath an Indiana Tree

“I Might Trust You showcases Sam Moe’s endlessly inventive voice. Her prose glitters, and her images—vividly painting sunflowers, seances, false moons, fillet knives, cat collars, cut candles, and so much more—gleam.  In these pages, we encounter the many shapes of loss, loneliness, longing, and love. Throughout, we feel as if we are in the presence of a storyteller who knows the secrets of our beautiful and broken world. This is a fantastic collection.”

—Bradley Sides, author of Crocodile Tears Didn’t Cause the Flood

“Sam Moe’s I Might Trust You is an act of literary alchemy—unraveling like a fever dream, where memory slips into myth and language pulses with intimacy, longing, and the quiet ache of transformation. This is a book that does not merely tell a story; it moves like an incantation, revealing love and loss in fragments that shimmer at the edges of consciousness, both wound and salve at once.

Moe’s writing is hypnotic and immersive, evoking through sensory detail the warmth of a kitchen where devotion is folded into food; the sea thrumming with promises; the ghost of a lover dissolving into myth. Each piece feels like something remembered and half-forgotten, something whispered in the dark.

Lyrical, haunting, and breathtaking in its depth, I Might Trust You is a book that doesn’t simply invite you in—it enchants you.

Moe’s work reads prismatic and renders you dizzy in its inventiveness. Moe might leave you speechless.”

—C. Heyne, author of my room and other wombs

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Author Biography
Sam Moe is the author of six books of poetry. Her most recent collection, RED HALCYON, is forthcoming from Querencia Press in 2026. Her debut short story collection, I MIGHT TRUST YOU, is forthcoming from Experiments in Fiction in Spring 2025. She has attended the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and received fellowships from the Longleaf Writer’s conference and the Key West Literary Seminar. Sam has also received writing residencies from The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow and Château d’Orquevau.