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Tag: Joan Wylde

Out the front door

November 19, 2025November 19, 2025 ~ beverleystevens ~ 2 Comments

A short personal essay about farewelling my mother, published in Short Reads in November 2025. https://www.short-reads.org/out-the-front-door/

Been and gone

September 16, 2022October 21, 2025 ~ beverleystevens ~ Leave a comment

Published online in the literary journal Dorothy's Parker's Ashes, this piece was submitted in response to a call for submissions on the theme 'mother'. My mother is seated in the bottom row, first on the left. Read it at http://www.dorothyparkersashes.com/mother/gone

Aide-memoire

May 28, 2022October 21, 2025 ~ beverleystevens ~ Leave a comment

This story of a phone call with my mother as her memory was going is published in Landfall issue 243. Click on the photo to read it.

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