Mouthy
Stories about women
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👄Bold voices
👄Quiet tenderness
👄Emotionally resonant
👄Wry and political
👄Lyrical and intimate
👄Equisitely told
👄Short stories
These stories are a powerful meditation on what it means to be a woman: to love, lose, create, and persist. Many of these stories were originally performed live at literary events across the Southwest, giving them a vivid immediacy and a strong connection to audiences.
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Published by Axe River Books
Cover design by Soraya Schofield
MEET SOME OF THE STORIES
Moderation
"She could smell a feast. It smelled real.​
This wasn't calm. It wasn't soothing. It was almost certainly not safe.​
Carla was so exhilarated she thought she might explode."
The Acorn Vase
"This daughter of mine doesn't know me if she thinks I want to see an acorn in the middle of my breakfast table rather than the bright purple of a crocus or the unfolding petals of my favourite apricot rose." ​​
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Living In The Shadow Of Venus
"I'd missed her, I'd missed my Venus. And it was his fault."
Avocet
"Now that I'm old, the anger and the hurt have vanished and I can't forgive myself. I can't let it go. It's too late to make my peace, and now I can't remember why I started the war."