REVOLUTIONARY BABY: SHORT STORIES
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Revolutionary Baby is a collection of short stories about ordinary people caught in the revolutions of the twentieth century. The world is changing fast. Choices must be made. Power relations, gender identities and social expectations lead to uncertainty and confusion. Self-sabotage, isolation and loneliness somehow meet with hope and sometimes love. In Sydney, London, Berlin, and Bangkok people do their best and worst as the twentieth century fades into history.
- An ambitious young woman from a poor Irish family struggles with her Univeristy studies in the face of rising student unrest and her own romantic entanglements.
- A pregnant feminist defies her husband and gives birth at a chaotic anti-Vietnam War rally while he is drinking with a new mate at the seaside. He thought he might leave her but now his fate is sealed.
- A bachelor farmer rejects a possible bride when he discovers her alarming secret.
- A short man seeks to grow taller but encounters a life-altering situation that no one, least of all him, could have expected.
- On a rural commune an exile from the Party ponders his political legacy but never dreams that his children will take his life’s work to the tip.
- Thousands throng the streets of Bangkok, hoping for a revolution but settling for 30% democracy.
The collection concludes with a novelette-length story about a wealthy Sydney widow, who longs for love and decides she needs cosmetic surgery in Thailand. A random act of violence leads to a surprising new way of life.
The stories and characters are entirely fictional, but reflect my own experiences as a student, a mother, an academic, a traveller, an onlooker and participant in the transformations of recent decades.
Themes and approaches challenge traditional depictions of romantic, sexual and family relationships and might be uncomfortabe for some readers.
Print Book Length: 244 pages.
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