Black Silk Road

A Sri Lankan mermaid laments the Arthurian Fisher King a woman treks to a cliff in the Nilgiris with honey gatherers of the Irula tribe a painter fears she will lose her sanity if she leaves her marriage and lose her art if she stays faithful within it one woman marries her goddess another sitting in a bar says to herself I like my fights dirty my vodka neat and my romance anachronistic. The women in this collection are choice makers consequence facers solitude seekers. They are lovers vixens wives to themselves. And their stories are just how that woman in the bar likes it dirty neat and sexy as smoke.