The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna

by Juliet Grames

it was important to know your limitations and not waste time attempting to do poorly what you could have someone else do for you.

Never once in history has anyone asked a rich man what people will say. No one tells a rich man to be ashamed of himself. So why should I!”

This was the trouble with emigration—it dismantled the patriarchy. Because really, what did Assunta, or any woman, need a husband for, when she did every goddamn thing herself?

is the moral responsibility of the incompetent to identify their own weaknesses and not accept positions of power.

History marches on, and names and destinations change, but not the injustices we let one another suffer.

A house that one woman, Ros, had given to another woman, Assunta, subsumed by the patriarchy, snap! Just like that.