Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Jane Cawthorne and E. D. Morin

ONE: UN/DONE

The Chrissie Hynde Stories

Rea Tarvydas

Let’s Talk About Sex

Taryn Thomson

Eating Beets During Menopause

Donna Caruso

I Found Her at the Beach

B. A. Markus

In Charge

Glenda Barrett

Caged

Lori D. Roadhouse

Dervish

Sally Ito

Disassembly

Jane Cawthorne

Adjusting the Ashes

Susan Calder

Long ago and far away

Louise Carson

Il y a longtemps

Traduction par Lise Tremblay et Louise Carson

woman burning

Lynda Monahan

Unzipped

Maroula Blades

Go. Rock.

Noah Michelson interviews Tori Amos

Man with a Vagina

E. D. Morin interviews Buck Angel

Flash Flood

Colette Maitland

A woman at mid-life

Shirley A. Serviss

The Hot Women

Rhona McAdam

TWO: IN/FERTILE

Life after Life

Arlene S. Bice

I Am My Mare

Lisa Couturier

The Things We Carry

Tanya Coovadia

On Women and Forest Fires

C. E. O’Rourke

Up at Two in the Morning

Caroline Bock

The Brothers Germain

E. D. Morin

Unconventional Wisdom

Merle Amodeo

Her Love Life

Gemma Meharchand

Roll Over a Change Is Coming

Maroula Blades

Autumn Fields

Margaret Macpherson

A sprinter with pluck and panache

Rona Altrows

sixty

Marianne Jones

Perimenopause

Alison Stone

the year it did not flood

Gerry Wolfram

These Things Did Not Happen

Shelley A. Leedahl

October

Steve Passey

On Mountains and Menopause

Jane Cawthorne and E. D. Morin

THREE: UN/KNOWN

Evie’s Massage Parlour

Roberta Rees

Hidden Talents

Lou Morin

Drenched

Leanna McLennan

Pressed On

Carol Kavanagh

Midnight Flit

Taryn Thomson

Ugly Duckling Syndrome

Carolyn Gage

Icing on the Cake

Rachel Williams

Eddies

Virginia Boudreau

My Mother’s Skin

Kate Austin

Blue Thread

Rona Altrows

Thaw

Elaine Hayes

Threshold

Jane Silcott

Perimenopausal I Buy a Navy Blue Blazer

Shaun Hunter

Bond

Ellen Kelly

Reality Check

Frances Hern

Salt

Cathy Cultice Lentes

Child of Earth

Carolyn Pogue

Fact and Fiction

Heather Dillaway

Last Blood

JoAnn McCaig

Contributor Notes

Credits