Out Now: “I Might Trust You” by Sam Moe

EIF is excited to announce the release of a brand-new fiction title today: the stunning short story collection, I Might Trust You, by Sam Moe. These tales of love and betrayal, trauma and healing will hold you spellbound, not least because of the magic of Moe’s unique narrative voice.

About the Author

Sam Moe is the author of Heart Weeds (Alien Buddha Press), Grief Birds (BS Lit), and Cicatrizing the Daughters, forthcoming in Spring 2025 from FlowerSong Press. Her chapbook, Animal Heart, won second place in the 3-Day International Chapbook Contest, judged by Diane Seuss. Her fiction, memoir, and poetry has appeared in journals such as Brink Literary, Peatsmoke, Thirty West Publishing, Invisible City, The Texas Review, The Southeast Review, The Penn Review, and others. She has received nine Pushcart nominations and ten Best of the Net nominations. She has attended the Sewanee Writers’ conference and received fellowships from the Longleaf Writers’ Conference, Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference, the Key West Literary Seminar, and Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. In spring and summer 2025, she will be an artist and writer in residence at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow and Château d’Orquevaux. I Might Trust You is her first full-length short fiction collection.

Praise for I Might Trust You

“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)

Thank you to editor Barbara Harris Leonhard for featuring I Might Trust You on MasticadoresUSA yesterday. The book is available from Amazon.com in paperback and kindle format, and from Barnes & Noble.com and Waterstones.com. Congratulations to Sam on her first full-length fiction collection!

Ingrid