Herland: stories about women
E. Mitchel Brown
language
(, Feb. 10, 2015)
Struggles for control. Facing death head on. Fighting memory. Switching gender roles. MUTANTS! This collection of six stories, some too fiction, some too true, include the mania, reluctance, and bravery of the women of Herland.My slowjam mixtape culminating from 2 years of face planting into my bedroom's cold tile writing a women's fiction series. "Leg" might by one of my favorite stories I've written. It also might be short enough to fit into the sample. So check it out, if you can. Alternately, there's some titular YA, scifi thrown in for good measure. βShe wiped the dirt from her eyes and rubbed it into her thin, tattered shirt. It tore as she pulled her arms inside and lifted it over her head. She chucked it back into the long grass, turned around for the last time and walked, far away, into the land.β