Born in Tucson, Arizona, Marlene Dotterer lived there until the day she loaded her five children into her station wagon, and drove north-west to the San Francisco Bay Area. Since then, she has earned a degree in geology, worked in nuclear waste, run her own business as a personal chef, taught natural childbirth classes, and wrote a novel. Then she wrote another one, then two more. She writes to “silence the voices,” obsessed with the possibilities of other worlds and other times.
Marlene Dotterer’s short story, Soul Singer: Friend was accepted for the Redwood Writers 2023 “One Universe to the Left” Anthology.
The story is an excerpt from her science fiction novel, “Soul Singer.” This WIP is the authorized autobiography of Tara v’Corant, First Singer of the Holaden Empire and the Outer Perseus Arm and Protector of Her Glorious Empress, Andrea Cudroun.
That’s quite a title for a Banthi girl born of a dying prostitute in the ghetto of Banthi Prime. In her own words, Tara brings us along the path of her life from that bitter beginning to its astounding end.
The short story highlights the time when Tara meets the woman who will be her first and true friend.
