“Things Every Southern Woman Should Know How to Make”

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Alice clicked on the headline, mildly curious about what yet another stranger thought should be in her kitchen repertoire. Pictures of China plates mounded with crispy fried chicken, greens, cobbler, and a pile of biscuits a mile high flooded the screen, all set off with a pitcher of sweet tea beaded with condensation. The table was set; an apron draped off to the side next to a box labeled “Gramma’s Recipes” in fine calligraphy. She closed the browser and put away her tablet. She was born a Georgia peach, but she couldn’t make a cobbler to save her life. Did that mean she wasn’t southern? Or maybe just not “Southern.” For Alice, there was no recipe box full of family traditions. Her younger years were filled with rental homes in different states and her father’s voice coaxing her toward a text book rather than a cookbook. Metalworking and fabrication held more interest than learning to flambé or sauté. Did it make her less of a woman that her cooking skills consisted of fresh salads

What I Write...

Some of the things from inside my head:


·         Techy girls with hacker skills and boys who’ve become the ghost in the machine


·         Dragon hunters whose worlds are shattered once their guiding principles fail


·         Apprentice mages caught in wars and torn between opposing ideologies


·         Gender-flipped retellings where the beauty comes to terms with her derailed life and the fact that her scars are not what makes her a beast


·         Cursed boys attempting to make amends for failures to girls who don’t deserve them



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