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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this Century of profound change for women our Atlantic neighbours produced authors of extraordinary ability that dazzled us all with a range of ideas, characters and stories of such magnificence that literature would never be the same again. Genius is written in their names.

Mind Over Matrix: Moving Beyond the Programmed Welcome to *Mind Over Matrix*, where we break free from the confines of programmed realities and explore the true potential of consciousness. This channel is dedicated to those who seek to challenge their preconceived notions of identity, reality, and self-awareness. Here, we dive deep into the illusions that shape our lives, unraveling the societal, religious, and psychological constructs that keep us bound to a limited existence.

Collected here are three of Dorothy Parker's earliest works: two collections of poetry—Enough Rope and Sunset Gun as well as her short, hilarious collection of stories recounting all of the men she managed to avoid marrying named (appropriately) Men I'm Not Married To.

In this follow-up to her best-selling debut collection of poetry (Enough Rope from 1926) Dorothy Parker published Sunset Gun (1928) her second of three volumes of short verse. One of the 20th century's most celebrated and renowned humorists, Parker once again delivers a biting, satiric, and insightful look at love, life, and literature in this brilliant collection.

Elke Heidenreich liest New Yorker Geschichten von Dorothy Parker. Die Erzählungen einer sehr starken Frau aus einer Zeit, als Frauen noch schwach und hilfsbedürftig zu sein hatten. Dorothy Parker sagt die Wahrheit: über die Verlogenheit der Leute, die das Geld haben, über die Demütigung der Leute, die kein Geld haben, über die Hoffnung der Menschen, die sich nach Liebe sehnen, und über den Absturz der Menschen, die diese Liebe nicht bekommen.

Como en muchas de sus historias, el tema central de este cuento de Dorothy Parker vuelve a ser la ruptura de una pareja.

In this series we explore the many facets of love through literary talents that span both time and country. Love in its fiery form may last but a moment―or forever. The need and want are obvious to both. Its all-consuming, if feels like it will always endure and never end. But passion and desire can burn bright and then burn themselves out. Our very devoted authors have much to share.

In this series we explore the many facets of love through literary talents that span both time and country. ‘With this ring, I thee Wed’. And with these words lives enter a new chapter. Hopefully till the end of their lives but time together, with its up and downs, hurdles and obstacles, also cuts short a great many, sometimes in unusual ways.

This century unfolds with a fast-changing world riven by immense wars and glutton hungry Empires. Women strive to win the most basic of rights, the right to vote. Their literary testament is now a vital part of our cultural world. They write on all manner of subjects with truth, with imagination and with undeniable talent. We are all the richer for their words.