Our Lives Apart

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Series begun:
2012-01-01
Series updated:
2012-07-12
Works included:
27
Complete:
Yes
Word count:
56,586
Author:
Description:

These are the stories that made up the thesis for my PhD in Creative Writing which I achieved in December of 2009. The idea was to tell (or retell) the stories of (sometimes) famous women. Some of these stories are more successful than others, I think, but all of them are true.

The title is taken from this poem by Adrienne Rich:

Our story isn't a file of photographs
faces laughing under green leaves
or snowlit doorways, on the verge of driving
away, our story is not about women
victoriously perched on the one
sunny day of the conference,
nor lovers displaying love:

Our story is of moments
when even slow motion moved too fast
for the shutter of the camera:
words blew our lives apart, like so…

And that's it, really. I never did anything with it and that's a shame, really, because some of these stories want to be read.

That's all.
I think that someone will remember us in another time.

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