I Might Trust You - by Sam Moe (Paperback)

About the Book

In her first full-length short story collection, author Sam Moe takes us on a journey through love and betrayal, jealousy and trauma to a place of self-knowledge which paves the way toward healing.

Book Synopsis

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

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.

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.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.

Review Quotes

"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