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Collage by @annweathersby for Diane Williams’s ‘Five Stories’ in the September issue of @harpersmagazine
“In this chapter, at some point, we should seek to understand these people, as if we could say to them—We have been talking about you. Mind if we ask you a few questions?
We do know that his former wife often waits to meet a friend or a stranger, has enthusiasm for entertainment, inclines more often to monotony.
She does enjoy it when the wind comes in through the windows and the screen doors—also the quality of calm—the black, blue, and gold of the night, when it finally arrives.
Her house, once his too, is made of brick and flint and is situated at the beginning of a broad road, which runs along a canal.
Something more about the house—fittingly, it has an exposed location.
What else to reveal?
Here are moments of a domestic lunch scene from their past that likely spotlight a statement from either one of them akin to—Don’t boss me around!
They ate mayonnaise-and-egg sandwiches, according to Diane W., who insists on carrying out this narration.
This could be a story about sexual encounters...”
More about Weathersby’s practice:
“[Weathersby is…] a lens-based artist driven by her love of female writers whose use of language and narrative create a private space for the
reader’s autobiography to meld with the protagonists. Her work coalesces in the realms where gender and sexuality intersect with the personal mythologies we create.
Through a practice that combines photography, ephemera, text, glass, and textiles, her work explores and challenges how these idealized prescriptions for femininity generate personal mythologies which can, if unconsidered, promote simultaneous subservience and self-objectification.”
Swipe for more of Ann’s work.
Link in bio to the fiction.
Links in stories (for those inclined to read more short fiction this Sunday morning) to Williams’s previous fiction in Harper’s.
‘As if you could no longer slip back into your body after a dream,’ 2026
Hand-cut kilnformed glass
@annweathersby
Redacted book cover, WIP
@annweathersby
“Female radicals…Joan of Arc, Bernardine Dohrn, Jennifer Dohrn, Kathy Boudin, Jane Alpert, and Gra
“In this chapter, at some point, we should seek to understand these people, as if we could say to them—We have been talking about you. Mind if we ask you a few questions?
We do know that his former wife often waits to meet a friend or a stranger, has enthusiasm for entertainment, inclines more often to monotony.
She does enjoy it when the wind comes in through the windows and the screen doors—also the quality of calm—the black, blue, and gold of the night, when it finally arrives.
Her house, once his too, is made of brick and flint and is situated at the beginning of a broad road, which runs along a canal.
Something more about the house—fittingly, it has an exposed location.
What else to reveal?
Here are moments of a domestic lunch scene from their past that likely spotlight a statement from either one of them akin to—Don’t boss me around!
They ate mayonnaise-and-egg sandwiches, according to Diane W., who insists on carrying out this narration.
This could be a story about sexual encounters...”
More about Weathersby’s practice:
“[Weathersby is…] a lens-based artist driven by her love of female writers whose use of language and narrative create a private space for the
reader’s autobiography to meld with the protagonists. Her work coalesces in the realms where gender and sexuality intersect with the personal mythologies we create.
Through a practice that combines photography, ephemera, text, glass, and textiles, her work explores and challenges how these idealized prescriptions for femininity generate personal mythologies which can, if unconsidered, promote simultaneous subservience and self-objectification.”
Swipe for more of Ann’s work.
Link in bio to the fiction.
Links in stories (for those inclined to read more short fiction this Sunday morning) to Williams’s previous fiction in Harper’s.
‘As if you could no longer slip back into your body after a dream,’ 2026
Hand-cut kilnformed glass
@annweathersby
Redacted book cover, WIP
@annweathersby
“Female radicals…Joan of Arc, Bernardine Dohrn, Jennifer Dohrn, Kathy Boudin, Jane Alpert, and Gra
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