A Boring Life and Other Stories
This collection of 19 stories focuses on women, young and older, as they navigate an era of changes in what the world expects of women and what women expect for themselves. The characters are in various professions, in and out of love, with or without children, in the United States and other countries. They seek ways to be themselves in the face of life’s challenges.
Here are the titles of the 19 stories (55,000 words):
Winter People
Chambers of the Heart
Fieldwork
Wedding Cake
Now I See You
A Boring Life
Apart
Urgent Care
The Perfect Picture
And Their Little Dogs Too
The View from Jupiter
Tea Business
Decorated
Dinner for Two
Mumtaz
Reunited
(In)Visible Women
Fearless
Old News
(Photo by Barbara Borst, Kruger National Park, South Africa, 1989)
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