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    The Wild Goose Literary e-Journal December 2018
    The Wild Goose Literary e-Journal December 2018
    The Wild Goose Literary e-Journal December 2018
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    The Wild Goose Literary e-Journal December 2018

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    New Australian fiction, poetry and essays from emergent authors. December special edition "Celebrating Women."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBlack Cockie Press
    Release dateDec 15, 2018
    ISBN9780648136651
    The Wild Goose Literary e-Journal December 2018

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      The Wild Goose Literary e-Journal December 2018 - The Wild Goose Literary e-Journal

      The Wild Goose Literary e-Journal December Edition.

      The Wild Goose Literary e-Journal December edition

      Published by Black Cockie Press

      Copyright Black Cockie Press 2018

      Distributed by Smashwords

      Cover Image All She Has Achieved by Anna Kling

      ISBN-13: 978-0-6481366-5-1

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      Table of Contents

      From the Editor

      Fremantle

      The End of The Line

      The Trade In

      Essence of Mother

      The Seamstress

      The Funny Thing About Belonging

      Sun Shower

      Even Closer to Dying

      2004

      Post-Partum Paradoxes

      Still

      The Fury of Maternity

      2:00 A.M. and All is Well

      Why I Still Breastfeed Binky Even Though He Just Turned Three

      Where It Will Go

      Writing The Women of Troy

      From The Editor

      Welcome to the December special edition of The Wild Goose Literary e-Journal.

      When I came up with the theme for this special issue, I chose not an abstract concept, like ‘passion’ or ‘the sea’ as I had done in previous years, but instead chose something that has been topical for some time after the very high profile #METOO movement began. I thought for a long time about creating a women contributor only issue, but as the year developed and the public dialogue between proponents and opponents of #metoo began to lose all civility, degenerating into an online shouting match. I decided that I wanted no part of a partisan product. Chairman Mao said that women hold up half the sky. And there is no person alive on earth who does not have at least one significant relationship with women in their lives. So I took a different approach, I opened the issue up freely as I had with all the previous themed issues, the only criteria being the writing must address the theme in some way.

      The results of this are to be found within these pages. Women and the roles they play in the lives of those around them are celebrated by both men and women. In the stories and poems that follow you will find you will find women as wives, mothers, lovers, daughters and friends. Women celebrating the joys of female friendship, the trials, ecstasies and doubts of childrearing. The holes left in lives when they are gone, and the holes that they fill when they appear. It can be hard sometimes to find literary spaces for women’s stories, hard to shape narrative structures that have been defined by active extroverted exploits, into something that can contain what are often more introverted emotionally driven narratives. It was a problem that perplexed Virginia Woolf in her essay A room of one’s own, a problem that she alone could not solve. However, by making space to celebrate women and their lives, every writer here is taking us one step, one syllable closer to equality. Closer to the understanding that allows true communication between the two halves of humanity holding up the sky.

      I’d like to finish by saying that I hope that you enjoy this Celebrating Women December edition of The Wild Goose Literary e-Journal. And that you will return here in April for our next issue.

      Natalie Muller – Founding Editor.

      Fremantle

      Paul J Laverty

      Alberto did not like the winter.

      But why? Giovanni asked him at Gino’s over coffee and dominoes. The winter here is good, sometimes like European summer. But the summer here, the summer is hell.

      Alberto could not agree. 40 degrees for him was no problem. Okay, when it got over that it became a bit much, but most of the summer was a joy. This, however, this, he didn’t like. When it was grey and dreary, when the wind whisked off the Indian Ocean and rifled through the old harbour town streets skewering right

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