Susan Isla Tepper has a new Novel out titled “Hair of a Fallen Angel” from Spuyten Duyvil Books, NYC. A twenty-year writer, she authored 12 published books of fiction and poetry and 5 Stage Plays. Honors include 21 Pushcart Prize Nominations, a win in the Francis Ford Copolla Zoetrope Contest for the Novel (2003), Second Place Winner in Story/South Million Writers Award and many more awards. Her play ‘The Crooked Heart’ concerning artist Jackson Pollock premiered on October 25, 2022, at the Irish Repertory Theatre in NYC. Adapted from an earlier novel, it was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Susan is a Brand Ambassador for The Galway Review. A YouTube music video for her new novel: https://youtu.be/W2HVIc4NrqY
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A monologue I wrote from our play ‘Lady In A Post Box’
by Ciaran O’Driscoll and Susan Isla Tepper
Filth he started calling my body,
nearly retching at my dress slipping off
to change into my night gown.
He wouldn’t lay a glove on me.
Refused even to offer up his arm
when we took to strolling on Sundays.
I got the quivers when he set himself those moods—
the ranting and raving in the parlor.
None of my food pleased him
not even the salmon I managed to wiggle
through the back door.
Refused even to stroke my hand with the arthritis
such was a bitterness overtook him.
Then— without fanfare in the black of night
the angels came down—
I never heard them
not a whisper.
Nor a groan out of him, either.
I don’t hold him to blame—
Some curse fell upon his mortal being.
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