Certain Dawn, Inevitable Dawn

A debut collection of short stories by Kansas writer Tasha Haas. Haas is a strong new voice in our region and nation. Here is what renowned writer Wendell Mayo wrote about this collection: I invite you to read these stories, stories that shimmer from dim corners few dare to go-a cornfield in a nightgown, a nurse on a perilous road after dropping an infant, a fallen priest's murder remembered in "prisms of light and shadow revolving in the treetops, silver leaves clattering in the wind," the title story's murderess who tells her own near-death story, and the wry narrator from the "wings" of art who abjures her boyfriend's niggling hypocrisies-all corners of consciousness, all places true art speaks from. Here is one of the most original and engaging voices of our time. Come close to these fearless stories. As the narrator of Haas's "What My Father Taught Me" discovers, "[I]f I could learn not to fear the dark I could learn not to fear anything." Such a brave debut! --Wendell Mayo, author of B. Horror and Other Stories