The High Priestess Never Marries : Stories of Love and Consequence By Sharanya Manivannan Sri Lankan Cuisine witnessed the opening of the

witnessed the opening of the Victoria Dam as an official guest

Raised on California's idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents

Piyumi Segarajasingham is a young barrister in eighties London

the budding adventuress

The High Priestess Never Marries : Stories of Love and Consequence By Sharanya Manivannan Sri Lankan Cuisine witnessed the opening of theA Sri Lankan mermaid laments the Arthurian Fisher King; a woman treks to a cliff in the Nilgiris with honey gatherers of the Irula tribe; a painter fears she will lose her sanity if she leaves her marriage, and lose her art if she stays faithful within it; one woman marries her goddess; another, sitting in a bar, says to herself, I like my fights dirty, my vodka neat and my romance anachronistic. The women in this collection are choice makers,