"A little over thirteen years ago, in my second semester of graduate school, I was in a novel-writing class..."
~ Kim Vose
"ENOUGH: The Boogeyman"
https://therumpus.net/2021/11/22/enough-the-boogeyman/
"Baby Steps" by Kim Vose, 2020 Non-Fiction Winter Contest Winner | Causeway Lit
https://causewaylit.com/2020/03/09/baby-steps-by-kim-vose/
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"One of Cat's Eye's most superbly crafted twists is that Cordelia and Elaine eventually swap roles, with Elaine becoming the dominant friend and the once omnipresent-seeming Cordelia the girl you can't help but pity. Elaine gets even by subtly teasing Cordelia throughout their teens and then finally abandoning the now viscerally unstable young woman when she most needs a friend. But Elaine's revenge fails to liberate her from her overwhelming sense of trauma and alienation."
~ Margaux Fragoso
"Teen Girls, Mean Girls: A Tale Of Karmic Revenge : NPR"
https://www.npr.org/2012/01/13/145175020/cat-s-eye-the-vicious-mind-games-of-mean-girl
"Tiger, Tiger" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/8979038-tiger-tiger
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"Summer 1982. I am living with a famous novelist who is a heavy drinker. One night he has had a few too many and our evening guest, who also has a snootful but who wants out of this chaotic scene and to go home, has driven his car into the ditch near the house. John wants to get our car, hitch it to Jeff’s car with a length of chain, pull him out of the ditch. They are both so drunk I am afraid someone will die. I have the car keys in my hand. John forces me to my knees, then punches me in the arm to make me give them up. I am pregnant with his baby when this happens. Every nerve in my body tells me I should run, but I stay with him. Two weeks later I miscarry the baby and nine weeks after that John dies in a motorcycle accident because he is still drunk from the night before.
But I stay with him. And I mourn him.
Winter 1986. I am a Ph.D. candidate at the university where my abusive alcoholic boyfriend taught. It would be pretty to say I stopped drinking because of his death but the opposite is true; I continue drinking, maybe I drink more. One night there is a house party. I stay too long and drink too much and come to out of an alcoholic fog to find my thesis advisor on top of me with his hand busy in my crotch, saying, “I’m only trying to find out if you are good enough.”
My solution: First, I immediately switch advisors to the only tenured woman in the department. (I am after all really focused on getting that Ph.D.) Second, I avoid Professor Toxic in the halls, and third, I write a short story about it, changing only the names. I show the story to another grad student. “If you publish this, this guy will find you, wherever you are living, and set fire to your bed while you are in it.”
I never submit the story for publication."
~ Susan Thornton
https://www.duendeliterary.org/susan-thornton
"On Broken Glass: Loving and Losing John Gardner" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195939.On_Broken_Glass
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"I have twice married men vastly my superior...i.e., expert liars."
Liz Rosenberg
"Replacing the Irreplaceable" - The New York Times
"House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery"| Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36369872-house-of-dreams
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