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All That You Wish You Could Be: A Short Story Collection
Paperback
Publisher: Watch Woman Press
Published: Nov 24 2025
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.19 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
These interconnected vignettes are based on real-life moments-an ensemble drama about ambition, image, and power across different stages of womanhood. In small-town Texas, two girls raised on evangelical promises dream of fame as a way out. In the 1980s, a Southern charm school trains young women to marry rich under the guise of etiquette and perfection. Years later, wealthy mothers gather weekly around a dining room table, trading confessions about cosmetic surgery, addiction, and quiet despair. A teenage babysitter becomes dangerously infatuated with a powerful married man, while in the corporate world, a Rolex-wearing executive threatens livelihoods in the name of efficiency. Each story, based on true events, exposes the systems that reward appearance, obedience, and silence-until they don't.
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