Satellites Out of Orbit

This literary collection of prose pieces and poetry has five parts:I. Epistles: epistles written by Eve, Cain's wife, Noah's wife, Delilah, the Queen of Sheba, Mary, and others - as if they were feministII. Myths: the myths within the myths revealed - what might Pandora, Circe, Penelope, Eurydice, Persephone, the Gorgons, and others have thought and done if they had not been the creations of a chauvinist patriarchy?III.
Letters: letters that might have been written by Lady Godiva, Milton's daughter, Rubens' model, Mozart's mother, Freud's wife, Plato's students, and others - assuming a feminist consciousnessIV. Soliloquies: soliloquies delivered by Juliet, Ophelia, Lady MacBeth, Kate, Desdemona, Regan, Miranda, and others - protesting the role given to them by ShakespeareV. Fairy Tales: the classic fairy tales retold - what would have happened if Gretel, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and others had been strong and critical girls and women living today?Epistles, myths, history, soliloquies, and fairy tales re/imagined through a (second-wave) feminist lensMany of the pieces are suitable for theatrical performance and audition; they also work very well as classroom material.*".an excellent and much recommended pick for unique fiction collections." Michael Dunford, Midwest Book Review""I recently finished Satellites Out of Orbit and found it to be a remarkably imaginative and thought-provoking collection.