My overarching desire in what I write is to shed more light upon issues affecting women in our world—issues that don’t get nearly the attention they deserve or require in our daily news cycles or media feeds. I feel that fiction is a good vehicle for doing that. Fiction allows writer and reader both to explore and consider the humanity of a given situation. It brings perspective. It offers us more than numbers and statistics. It goes deeper than that—it touches us on an emotional level.
“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If, through my stories, I can inspire dialogue or inspire empathy for the hardships many among us may suffer, or if I can help even a single individual feel less alone in their circumstance, then I will have succeeded in what I hoped to achieve.
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