The Octopus Curse: A Collection of Clingy Poems

Science would have us believe that we are nothing but cell upon cell. I disagree. We are made up of stories. The stories we hear from our mothers the ones we tell our daughters. The tales we share with sisters and friends. The ones we never say out loud but are heavy on our minds and run like a fever in our blood.There are a multitude of great divides between us; race religion cultures the way we dress the languages we speak but the stories we tell bridge us together in the universal tongue of smiles tears pain and laughter. They remind us that as women were all chasing similar fairy-tales.This book is a call to celebrate the bridges delight in our stories and to focus on the joy in our lives right now rather than racing behind the happily-ever-after. That will come in its own time.