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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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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...
Cherry

A Life Well Lived

Taking a few cooling sips from her water bottle the funeral celebrant wipes the perspiration from her face. Her nervousness stems both from the...
Cherry

Puked On and P***ed Off

I’ve travelled on a train with a companion rather ‘worse for wear’ myself. He was bigger than me and thus hard to handle and so I felt some sympathy...

The Strawberry Pickers

Moving as one they stand and stretch, arching their backs against the stiffness. The younger woman, stoops again to stack the other’s crates on top...

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