Wannabe by Adele Evershed

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Adele Evershed’s “Wannabe” is a novella-in-flash that delves into the intricacies of girlhood, womanhood, and the human experience with its vivid imagery and raw emotion. This poetic and powerful portrayal explores the depths of yearning, dreaming, and ultimately accepting oneself amidst the aftermath of abuse and trauma, and the societal expectations that loom.

– Alien Buddha Press

Adele Evershed’s prose expertly interrogates those often elusive “in-between” places in our everyday lives. Her subtle building of tension alongside character packs such weight and insight into each line that reading her work feels like getting away with something secret and dangerous

Lukas Tallent, Editor at Wrong Turn Lit

 

 

 

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Adele Evershed’s “Wannabe” is a novella-in-flash that delves into the intricacies of girlhood, womanhood, and the human experience with its vivid imagery and raw emotion. This poetic and powerful portrayal explores the depths of yearning, dreaming, and ultimately accepting oneself amidst the aftermath of abuse and trauma, and the societal expectations that loom.

– Alien Buddha Press

Adele Evershed’s prose expertly interrogates those often elusive “in-between” places in our everyday lives. Her subtle building of tension alongside character packs such weight and insight into each line that reading her work feels like getting away with something secret and dangerous

– Lukas Tallent, Editor at Wrong Turn Lit

Adele Evershed writes flash fiction with insightful short sentences and descriptive snapshots of authentically observed human behaviour. But resonating from those well-crafted words are prompts to the emotions within that for the reader can last long after the reading stops.

– Ian Rushton, Free Flash Fiction

 

 

 

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