Fast Fallen Women 75 Essays of Flash NonFiction

Memoir. Confession. Humor.Lived-experience. Intimate Revelations. Professional Discoveries.Survival. Pleasure. Triumph.   Fast Fallen Women introduces 75 new essays about the dangerous and enthralling ways women fall—and how we get back on our feet, more deft, more decisive, and daring than ever. Holding a compact mirror up to life with the same curiosity that enveloped Eve when she once held the apple, editor Gina Barreca’s latest inclusive collection of short, sharp, feminist pieces illuminate women’s courage, curiosity, and wit.   With new and original works by: ·       Amy Tan ·       Jane Smiley ·       Caroline Leavitt ·       Bobbie Ann Mason ·       Honor Moore ·       Darien Hsu Gee ·       Ilene Beckerman ·       and Lynn Peril   —alongside other ground-breaking journalists, novelists, and writers, you’ll find emerging authors whose creative non-fiction is appearing on the page for the first time—you will find within these pages a celebration the fallen woman the long overdue.  Fast Fallen Women gives whispered conversation a full voice.

1. Maggie Mitchell— Party Girl 2. Caroline Leavitt— Lousy Dancer 3. Amy Tan— Fallen Woman 4. Marna Deitch— Woman on the Motorcycle, Riding Alone 5. Ebony Murphy-Root— Feeling 39 6. Deboarh Hochman Turvey— Planned Parenthood 7. Honor Moore— Good Calcium and a Red Sky 8. Pamela Katz— Breaking Ground 9. Jane Smiley— Looking Up 10. Kelly Andrews Babcock— Bruce Whore 11. Darien Hsu Gee— Platitudes 12. Gina Barreca— The Other Woman 13. Jianna Heuer— That Girl 14. Heidi Rockefeller— Stability 15. Ilene Beckerman— Good Girls 16. Rosie Gonzalez— Leveling the Playing Feild 17. Katherine Jimenez— Rubbers 18. Emily Heiden— Uncharted 19. Anne Bagamery— Feminism and Mom 20. Nicole Catarino— Rituals 21. Michelle Carter— Hystorechtomy Hysteria 5 22. Louisa Ballhaus— I Can Keep aSsecret 23. Claire Lasher— Gingerbread Woman 24. Pia Bertucci— Baba’ s Mirror 25. Pat Myers— Burnice Kotkin 26. Lynn Peril— Summer 1976 27. Jennifer Rizzo— On Some Days 28. Lisa Douglas— Paper Robes and Good Panties 29. Madiha Shafqat— Roti-making dreams 30. Greta Scheibel— Beware of the which bites 31. Emily Toth— When Your Friends Say “ OOH LA LA” 32. Jennifer Scharf— First Kiss 33. Kylie Ramia— Sweet Tooth 34. Meredith Tibbetts— Hope and Pain 35. Sarite Konier— POP Star 36. Jessie Lubka— The Toxic Friend 37. Melissa Llarena— Imagine a Better Way 38. Laura Pope— Aspiring Mother 39. Joyce Saltman— Virgins and Sluts: Then and Now 40. Amy Hartle Sherman— Taking Off 41. Kelsey Tynik— When Will Enough Be Enough? 42. Bobbie Ann Mason— Bobbycoddle 43. Sydney Melocowsky— How to Scramble an Egg 44. Joan Seigler Sidney— How I Escaped Mom’ s Voice 45. Angela Bonavoglia— Close Encounters of the Episcopal Kind 46. Krysia Carmel— Nelson Life Alert 47. Monique Heller— Green Beans 48. Erica Buehler— Worth my Salt 49. Cindy Eastman— Moving Out; Moving In 50. Dana Starr— Put out to Pasture 51. Angel Johnstone— Taking It Off 52. Cristina Caruk— Falling for the Baby 53. Pat Pannell— Lost and Found 54. Susan Cossette— Letter to My 18-Year-Old Self 55. Melissa Johnson— Old Friends 56. Kim Hanson— The Iron and the Belt 57. Bonnie Jean Feldkamp— Depths of the Damned 58. Julie Danis— Hostage for a Prayer 59. Kathleen Jones— Virtue Signaling 60. Brenda Murphy— Salem Witches 61. Barbara Cooley— A Singel Woman 62. Jane Cook— Scar 63. Erin Brochu— Good as Nude 64. Jennifer Forrest— Getting up 65. Cara E. Kilgallen— Rituals & Resurgence: 66. Carol Gieg— Swept Off My Feet 6 67. Misty Knight— A Calculated Fall 68. Cecilia Gigliotti— Psycho Killer, Twelve Years Old 69. Heidi Woods— Falling in Love While Falling Apart 70. Amy Mullis— Rebel Pants 71. Tammy Rose— In Clover 72. Emily Raymond— The Couch Story 73. Mia Yanosy— The Gift 74. Joan Muller— Nursery Rhymes 75. Emma Corby— Emerald Shoes