Women: Wise, Wicked, Worn

As the title suggests, these are tales of women with differing personalities, all facing difficult and diverse situations and setbacks. Some of the women are intelligent and wise. Others are worn and weary, dejected and rejected. Several are wicked-very wicked. ***The author's mother once had the audacity to ask her daughter, "Can't you write anything happy?" Nope ***No comedies here, unfortunately; only engaging women in true-to-life (maybe a few not quite-so-real ) predicaments. Who knows, though, the reader may see herself in a story or two or, perhaps, a friend or (gasp ) one's own mother. Males might find these stories interesting