Wild Women Contemporary Short Stories by

A collection of short stories featuring contemporary interpretations of the wild woman archetype includes works by Alice Walker, Anne Rice, Margaret Atwood, Erica Jong, Isabel Allende, and Fay Weldon

Preface

xi

Sue Thomas

Introduction

xv

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Who is the Wild Woman?

The Tiger's Bridge

3

(16)

Angela Carter

Woman from America

19

(3)

Bessie Head

The English Disease

22

(11)

Nina FitzPatrick

The Smile of a Mountain Witch

33

(12)

Ohba Minako

Two Words

45

(7)

Isabel Allende

The Debutante

52

(5)

Leonora Carrington

The Dark Intruder/Mate

Linking Men

57

(2)

Margaret Atwood

Simmering

59

(3)

Margaret Atwood

In the Garden

62

(2)

Darcey Steinke

The Odalisque, Extinct

64

(2)

Diana Hartog

Bloodmantle

66

(11)

Tanith Lee

Sleeping Beauty, Revised

77

(10)

Jill McCorkle

All Strapped In

87

(8)

Sue Thomas

Empowerment, Self-esteem

Orchids to You, Dear

95

(7)

Fiona Cooper

Really, Doesn't Crime Pay?

102

(9)

Alice Walker

Stone-Eating Girl

111

(11)

Meena Alexander

The Raw Brunettes

122

(6)

Lorraine Schein

I Like to Look

128

(5)

Kathy Page

Planetesimal

133

(3)

Keri Hulme

Perma Red

136

(9)

Debra Earling

Sex

The Queen's Chamber

145

(11)

A. N. Roquelaure

Anne Rice

Her Thighs

156

(4)

Dorothy Allison

Four Bare Legs in a Bed

160

(10)

Helen Simpson

From How to Save Your Own Life

170

(7)

Erica Jong

Extreme Behavior

It's Bad Luck to Die

177

(13)

Elizabeth McCracken

MindMovie

190

(15)

Christine Slater

A Day at the Peep Show

205

(6)

Veronica Vera

Roses

211

(5)

Evelyn Lau

Julia and the Bazooka

216

(7)

Anna Kavan

Creativity, Life Phases

Silver Water

223

(8)

Amy Bloom

In My Next Life

231

(11)

Pam Mouston

Many Mothers

242

(11)

Beverley Daurio

Suicide

253

(3)

Mariarosa Sclauzero

Autobiography

256

(9)

Carol Emshwiller

Righteous Rage, Scars and Survivors

The Gift

265

(4)

Josephine Hart

Lucrece

269

(11)

Janice Williamson

Into the Roots

280

(4)

Janice Galloway

I Do What I Can and I Am What I Am

284

(7)

Fay Weldon

Lightning Rod

291

(9)

Melanie Tem

The Unsatisfactory Rape

300

(9)

Bev Jafek

Initiation, Endurance, The World of Female Knowing

How I Came West, and Why I Stayed

309

(10)

Alison Baker

Our Brother's Keeper

319

(5)

Lucia Berlin

Indian rubies

324

(2)

Patti Smith

Knower of Birds

326

(13)

Rachel Pollack

The Wild cherries of lust

339

(3)

Andrea Dworkin

Keep Your Guts

342

(12)

Karen Karbo

Birds of the Moon

354

(9)

Lisa Tuttle

About the Authors

363

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