Half-Lives

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A playful debut short story collection imagining womenâEUR(TM)s lives in a world free of social limitations.   Amid heightened restrictions about what women can and cannot do with their bodies, Lynn SchmeidlerâEUR(TM)s debut short story collection, Half-Lives, is a humane, absurd, and timely collection of narratives centering on womenâEUR(TM)s bodies and psyches. Playful and experimental, these sixteen stories explore girlhood, sexuality, motherhood, identity, and aging in a world where structures of societal norms, narrative, gender, and sometimes even physics do not apply. The protagonists grapple with the roles they choose and with those that are thrust upon them as they navigate their ever-evolving emotional lives. A woman lists her vagina on Airbnb, Sleeping Beauty is a yoga teacher who lies in state on the dais of her motherâEUR(TM)s studio, and a museum intern writes a confession of her affair in the form of a hijacked museum audio guide.  Half-Lives is the 2023 Rising Writer Prize winner, selected by Matt Bell. Â