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Sonora Taylor

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Horror, Fiction, Contemporary

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Sonora Taylor is the award-winning author of Little Paranoias: Stories, Without Condition, The Crow’s Gift and Other Tales, Please Give, and Wither and Other Stories. Her short stories have appeared in multiple publications, including Camden Park Press’s Quoth the Raven, Kandisha Press’s Women of Horror Vol. 2: Graveyard Smash, The Sirens Call, Frozen Wavelets, Mercurial Stories, Tales to Terrify, and the Ladies of Horror fiction podcast. Her latest book, Seeing Things, is now available on Amazon. She lives in Arlington, Virginia, with her husband.

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Average rating: 3.93 · 1,985 ratings · 641 reviews · 30 distinct works • Similar authors

	Little Paranoias 3.53 avg rating — 374 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seeing Things 4.09 avg rating — 126 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Someone to Share My Nightmares by Sonora Taylor (Goodreads Author), V. Castro (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 3.94 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Errant Roots (Selected Papers from the Consortium for the Study of Anomalous Phenomena #6) 3.97 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Without Condition 4.14 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Recreational Panic: Stories 4.35 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2024 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Crow's Gift and Other Tales 4.15 avg rating — 27 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	'Tis Better to Want 3.78 avg rating — 27 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wither and Other Stories 4.21 avg rating — 24 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Please Give really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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It’s Not That Bad: On Accountability, Forgiveness, and Why Men Need the Former Far More Than the Latter

CW/TW: rape, sexual assault

I’ve been reading Vulture’s article on the sexual assault allegations against Neil Gaiman. The allegations are not recent news–they were first broken by Tortoise Media in the summer of 2024. This appears to be the first major U.S. publication, though, that is not only sharing the allegations, but taking a deep, terrible dive into how bad they are. They are so awful t

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Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

by Arnold Schwarzenegger

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The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

by Ryan Holiday (Goodreads Author)

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The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Sonora Taylor said: " Finally finished this reread! Why is the best movie in the trilogy the worst book in the series? "

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Sonora Taylor and 1 other person liked Norman Miller's review of A Month Of Dunkin: "I really enjoyed these slice of life stories in this book. They reminded me of real interactions I hear when I spend a lot of times at a local cafe. I loved Armand's personality, and kind of reminded me of myself. His love of Dunks would do a New Eng" Read more of this review »
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