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First published October 13, 2021

The fine spinning of the Fates is an everyday, contained activity, as constrained as the embroidery within the perfect limits of a frame that stretches the fabric and allows the thread to move back and forth, tracing out hearts, flowers, and turtle doves. Writing by women always contains those cadences, that shuttling rhythm, the mythic rhythm that rises to the rooftops only to become as terrifying as the cry of the Furies when they predict Agamemnon's death at the hand of Clytemnestra, or the harsh voices Cassandra heard, yoked to Apollo's chariot, remembering the uncertain future of queens who will become household slaves, condemned to the pain of childbirth and the sweat of their brows.