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Gayle Letherby

I love to write. I am a sociologist who publishes mostly in the areas of methodology (including creative ways to present data), reproduction and non/parental identity, meanings and experiences of love, loss and the aftermath of death, solitude and/or loneliness, gender and identity, working and learning in higher education and travel and transport. I  have been writing fiction and memoir for about 14 years and draw on my own experience - both personal and academic - in my work. Other inspriations come from the books I enjoy and the news items that make me cross. 

Gayle Letherby

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No Room at the Infirmary

I come to, slowly. I’m groggy and I hurt all over. The harsh lighting hurts my eyes. The combined smells of antiseptic, industrial strength cleaning...
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Gold cherry

Kilkenny Fried Killing

Kentucky Kilkenny Fried Killing The Friday night twilight shift – 8pm to 2am closing time plus the end of day clean up – in the city’s cheapest fried...

Plain Speaking

I wake at crack of sparrow fart. Up before my breakfast. Yesterday I was under the weather. Today I am as fit as a flea. After a wash and brush up I...
Cherry

The Ladder

Yesterday I bought a ladder, Today I paint it blue. Onlookers jostle to crowd around, For of course they want one too. ‘This ladder is all that you...
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Cherry

'Smile, it might never happen'.

What follows is a short piece of fiction which, like many such writings, is based on something that happened to me (many years ago). I’ve written...

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