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


