Murray
Mae
Mae Murray is a writer and editor hailing from Arkansas, now living in eerie New England. She occasionally contributes essays and film criticism to Fangoria.com and Dread Central. She is the recipient of the 2022 Brave New Weird Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction. The Book of Queer Saints Volume I was her editing debut and a 2023 British Fantasy Award nominee in the Best Anthology category. I'm Sorry If I Scared You is her debut novel.
The Debut Novel By Award-Winning Writer Mae Murray
The Debut Novel By Award-Winning Writer Mae Murray
Thanksgiving 2010.
The world prepares for the first lunar eclipse to take place on the winter solstice since the year 1638. Crop circles, strange animals, disappearances, and UFOs permeate the empty countryside of the South.
Odette "Odie" Tucker is a first-generation college student, returning home from Boston to rural Arkansas for the holidays. On the drive home, she endures a pill-induced abortion in a gas station bathroom, the product of a recent rape she has told no one about. On a whim, she 'rescues' the clump of expelled cells in a plastic water bottle.
Upon her return home, Odie faces the suppressed feelings of abandonment from her family and lifelong best friend Dale, an out butch lesbian Odie is too afraid to admit she's in love with.
When Odie is possessed by her own disco-loving abortion, she begins to live vicariously through its complete embrace of life, love, sex, violence, and vengeance.