Circles Joined to Circles: Real Stories by Real Women on Mothers, Daughters & Sisters

By Alexis Niki

A life-affirming, funny, poignant, and touching collection of stories on the theme of Mothers, Daughters & Sisters by thirteen women writers. This ebook is a companion to the web series "My Bitchy Witchy Paris Vacation," a sweet mother-daughter tale shot entirely on location in Paris, France.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Alexis Niki
• Release date: Dec 16, 2010
• ISBN: 9781458025593

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Circles Joined to Circles

Real Stories by Real Women on Mothers, Daughters & Sisters

A companion to the web series My Bitchy Witchy Paris Vacation

Edited by Alexis Niki

Published by Alexis Niki at Smashwords

Copyright 2010 Alexis Niki

Cover photograph by Marc-Olivier Souder

Watch the web series:

My Bitchy Witchy Paris Vacation

http://www.bitchywitchythefilm.com

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Table of Contents

Introduction - Alexis Niki

The Roach Motel - Pelham Spong

And Now You Are One - Becky Sherrick Harks

Jump Off That Bridge - Ann Jacobus

Excerpt from Banana - Caroline Cheng

To Smoke Or Not To Smoke, That Is The Question - Lisa Gurney

A Day In The Life Of My Daughter - Kate Michaels

When You’re Hot, You’re Hot - Erzsi Deàk

Four Weddings And A House Full Of PMS - Melanie Kissell

Wish Upon A Star - Nancy Julien Kopp

The Operation - Mina Zaher

Warning: Two-Year-Old On The Premises - Rebecca Joyner

The Button Cupboard - Vikki Stark

The Inner Bitch Club - Alexis Niki

Connect with My Bitchy Witchy Paris Vacation online

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Introduction

This ebook is a companion to My Bitchy Witchy Paris Vacation, a sweet and touching mother-daughter web series shot on location in Paris, France. A web series is a series of episodes created for distribution on the Internet, or a mobile phone or other device. Another way to think of a web series is as web TV.

My Bitchy Witchy Paris Vacation tells the tale of a mother, Diane (Kate Michaels) and her two daughters, Miranda (Esmée Buchet-Deàk) and Ashley (Pelham Spong). Each is at a threshold in a woman’s life. Diane feels too young to be entering menopause. Miranda feels too old to be waiting for her first period. And Ashley feels both too young for the arrival of her first child and too old to be playing family peacekeeper. Stressed out and on edge, the trio travels to Paris hoping to stop fighting and reconnect. Instead, cultures and hormones collide.

On the surface, you might think Bitchy Witchy is about female hormones and how they seemingly define women. But to me, it’s a sweet, painful, and humorous exploration of mother-daughter relationships, the bonds of sisterhood, and the pain and anxiety of the transitions we all go through. It’s the kind of story women of all ages can relate to and share with each other.

To expand upon the themes of the web series, I thought it would be fun to reach out to women writers and ask them to contribute real stories from their lives on the general theme of mothers, daughters, and sisters. The response was enthusiastic and immediate, and the result is this collection of life-affirming, funny, poignant, and touching stories.

On behalf of the cast and crew of My Bitchy Witchy Paris Vacation and the authors represented in this book, may our stories inspire you to connect with your own mothers, daughters, and sisters. And may they—along with our web series, which you can watch for free at http://bitchywitchythefilm.com—be one of many bright spots in your daily lives that you enjoy sharing with one another.

Alexis Niki

Creator of My Bitchy Witchy Paris Vacation

December 2010, Paris, France

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