WORK
What a woman knows because she does the job.
Tailoring, complaint review, switchboards, water schedules and hospital records are not background. They are how the women in these stories see what everybody else misses.
Evelyn Marie Shantz writes contemporary women’s fiction about women, for women, alongside historical fiction and psychological suspense.
Her work follows women through pressure, desire, evidence, memory and consequence without reducing them to devices for someone else’s story.
Current published titles include The Six Days Before, Timberline Road and The Last Solos. No Angel Came: Five Stories is forthcoming December 25, 2026.
DESIRE
Sex changes the balance.
Desire can create trust, expose fear, shift control or make a lie impossible to maintain. It is part of the plot because it changes what a woman will risk.
CONSEQUENCE
The injury stays in the story.
Violence is not a quick burst of heat. It changes bodies, evidence, relationships and the choices available in the next scene.
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