VIOLET PEAKS
Maybe she was going at this all wrong. Maybe people did spring fully formed and you should just take them at face value. After all, you could never fully know another person. You knew only what they chose to tell you. Entire lives stripped down to a series of patchy anecdotes, and which did you select? Which could be sewn together to form a coherent story?
Armed with the recent discovery of her husband's infidelity, 33-year-old Violet Peaks slips out of their third anniversary dinner and wanders into the summer night retracing the rocky trajectory of her life.
Beginning with a bolt of lightning and ending with the glow of a firefly, VIOLET PEAKS follows her journey from age 5 to age 33, revealing the pivotal moments, chance encounters, and unexpected turns which come to shape one's life, and which may end up destroying her own.
Featuring "Mata Hari", one of the winners in The 2015 Tennessee Williams Fiction Contest.