Birth, Death & Moments Between
A collection of short stories about women: their struggles, strife, success and survival.
A book dedicated to the lives of women.
Stories that are brutally honest, sometimes painfully so, scattered with moments of joy, love, regret, hate, desire...
Stories which move through multiple generations, continents and cultures, giving words to those without voices and voices to those without words.
Stories of Women
“I wrote for as long as I can remember, on my parent’s walls, on scraps of paper, on books, in books, absolutely everywhere…”
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“The beating of the drum echoed in the heartbeat of the newborn, calling to her, for her , for her people, the ones who sang the songs, chanting to the Prophet Shembe for his blessings…”
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“…she felt her way on the blood crusted earth until she arrived at the flowing wet fabric of Luxmi’s saree. She knew that the soul had left this damned being, yet life still lingered…”
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“…the old grandmothers held tightly onto each other, sharing their grief of loss and joy of birth, unable to separate the two…
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“He clung to me with his pale white arms and tear soaked face, a face that rarely saw the sun and me with my bronze, sun-burnt body and tousled hair that seldom felt the touch of a comb…”
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