Shut Me Up in Prose

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Perhaps there'll be a time when we can speak without them cutting our tongues.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>An ode to the indomitable feminine spirit this collection of stories artfully exhibits the unspoken struggles of women. A lampmaker faces dim truths as she ages. An ex-mermaid weaves her forgotten tale into the fabric of an underwater circus. A wife is pushed over the edge when she's sent to a rehabilitation center at the bottom of a dirt pit.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>By blending the fantastical with the familiar Vu celebrates the extraordinary in the ordinary. To her invisibility is a canvas for creativity a playground for whimsy and a stage for the surreal.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>With twelve peculiar pieces </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Shut Me Up in Prose</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> illuminates how in the shadows of society women stand ever resilient in the face of those who wish to silence them.</span></p>