The Secret Lives of Ordinary Women: A Collection of Short Stories

Some of the stories might be based on reality, the rest are very likely to be mere figments of the writer’s over-active imagination. From the 19th century farm woman saving the life of a peddler, a dear little six year old befriending an older woman, to a bright young woman e-mailing her mom about her developing torrid romance in an ancient Italian city, all of these women are well behaved and certainly proper ladies. You would think. And mostly, they are. Mostly. However, like real-life human beings, there’s the dark side. In these twelve stories, the warrior, the clever thinker, the sexy broad, and every other aspect of the not-always-so-well-behaved show up. But that’s what makes these women interesting, intriguing, and almost real. Well, except for Mrs. Bediemeir. She never was very nice. Read on