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by Karen Richard
by Karen Richard
It’s 2004, the year same-sex marriage becomes legal in Massachusetts, the year the Red Sox break the curse, and the year everything changes for Meg Myers.
Meg is an animal control officer who doesn’t much like people and doesn’t believe wishes come true. She grew up in state care, bouncing between foster homes and her alcoholic mother. Left physically and emotionally scarred, she is guarded about her past and pessimistic about her future. So she focuses on her job and her dream of opening an animal shelter.
Meg’s world is rocked by three women: Pam and her foster daughter, Violet; Gina, twin to Meg’s best friend Jeff; and Samantha, the vet who shares an uncomfortable past with Meg. Through her relationships with these women, Meg is forced to explore mother-daughter bonds, loss and grief, and what defines friendship and gender in her quest to find security and love for the first time in her life.
GCLS Awards
Winner
2017 Anthology/Collections (Fiction)
Rainbow Awards
Honorable Mention
2016 Anthology /Collection/General Contemporary Fiction
“A poignant collection of well-told, intertwining stories showing the many faces and varieties of love. Absolutely delightful.” — Rainbow Awards judge
Details
Details
GusGus Press
164 pp. ● 4.37×7
$9.95 (pb) ● $4.95 (eb)
ISBN 978-1-943837-34-2 (pb)
FICTION – Short Stories
FICTION – Lesbian
Karen Richard is a labor contract negotiator by day and author by night. She has held numerous jobs in her life from cook to mail carrier. She lives in the northeastern United States with her wife and their cats. She is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame Law School although she won’t say what year. As a hint, it was the last year that the Fighting Irish won a national championship in football. She stands firm in the belief that, like the Phoenix, the Irish will rise from the ashes and reign as National Champions again! She has taken and passed the bar in Michigan, Maryland and Wisconsin, marking the only three times in her life she passed a bar without stopping in for a drink.
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