Persephone's Stories
Suzanne Uttaro SamuelsPersephone's Stories uncovers the journeys of those who have faced profound challenges, loss, and disillusionment but have still managed to find hope and meaning.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 87 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 9 days ago |
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Sicily Notebook #1
Six weeks in Sicily and Sardinia: archives, village streets, foundling histories, family records, and the making of The Orphans’ Wheel, a historical novel inspired by erased identities and hidden lives in western Sicily.
I’m writing this f...
The Wheel Turned
I’m back in the Adirondacks, enlarging blurred municipal pages from Partanna on my laptop. At first, the nineteenth-century handwriting seems impossible. Then suddenly the words emerge: nella casa ove è affissa la ruota—the house where the...
Names in Ink
Passenger manifest, SS Patria
There is something strangely intimate about writing down names.
This week, with my daughter’s wedding only days away, I’ve been surrounded by them—guest lists, seating charts, spreadsheets, place cards. At t...
At the Station, Again
The train station at Castelvetrano, Sicily
It’s summer in a small Sicilian town. The air is heavy, still. The sun beats down on the tracks. People stand about, waiting. There is no timetable—or none that can be trusted. They feel it: somet...
We Stay Longer Than We Should
We met on Zoom—faces appearing one by one in small squares—until someone asked:
“Are we going to discuss whether we’ll continue?”
I’ve been a member of this women’s group for the last twenty years. It began in the late seventies and has h...
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Award-winning novelist and essayist. Author of Seeds of the Pomegranate (Sibylline Press, 2025). Join Persephone's Stories for stories of people who defy the odds and rise above adversity.
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