The Fountain Of Perimenopause
After crossing the Irish Sea by Stanleyless steamer, they made their way through hostile Catholic territory by night. Karim, the Munshi, had rendered himself fluent in Irish Gaelic the week before, so, having dyed his beard and hair red, he was able to pass himself off as a native Irishman who happened to have a birthmark covering his entire body.
In the late 1880s, the queen of England was propelled by grief and pain to travel with her Munshi to deepest, darkest Ireland seeking rejuvenation.
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Jeff Dorchen
Jeff is a visual artist, songwriter/musician, actor, essayist, fiction writer, poet, playwright and screenwriter. He's been a playwright, songwriter, and performer with Chicago's Theater Oobleck since 1988, a writer and actor with Red Baron Films since 2000, and a contributor to This Is Hell! since 1996. He currently lives in Los Angeles. He writes the Substack, Right Twice A Day.
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