THE LESS SAID
The Less Said is a collection of short poems in 14 different forms. For more than a year, the authors, Gail Hartman, Ann Reed and Kate Tucker have each created and shared one short-form poem each day, developing a comforting daily ritual. Each of the forms has its own set of structures, syllable or word limitations. Only one of these forms involves rhyming. The Less Said is a curated collection of their poems, some humorous, some serious, all of them timely.
Preserving Light is more than a memoir. It is a multigenre journey of the human experience. Sometimes funny, unfailingly honest, it offers a unique examination of coping with loss, disappointment, and ambiguity.
“ … Preserving Light is the self-portrait of a remarkable sensibility: keenly observant, able to wade into very deep waters, intelligent, articulate, and rich with wit, insight, and self-containment. “One Lucky Widow” is worth the book alone as it explores her desperate effort to save her husband’s life from a rare disorder, the shock of loss, the grief and numbness after, and her capacity to reach within and access her own resources to lead her through and find the unthinkable: how rich her life became, even in the face of large loss …”
James Hollis, Ph.D. Jungian Analyst and author, Washington, D.C.
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The Little French Girl
The story, The Little French Girl, was written by Gail Hartman and Ann Reed. In January of 2017, Gail sent a paragraph or two about a young girl living in Paris to Ann. Ann added several more paragraphs and returned it to Gail. Gail wrote more, sent it to Ann and Ann did the same —back and forth they went for the better part of a year. Neither of them, at the beginning of the project, had any idea where the story would go. They found this way of writing wonderfully satisfying and are working on other co-created pieces of fiction.