All That You Wish You Could Be: A Short Story Collection

By Greer Sickinger-Maher

These interconnected vignettes are based on real-life moments-an ensemble drama about ambition, image, and power across different stages of womanhood. In small-town Texas, two girls raised on evangelical promises dream of fame as a way out. In the 1980s, a Southern charm school trains young women to marry rich under the guise of etiquette and perfection. Years later, wealthy mothers gather weekly around a dining room table, trading confessions about cosmetic surgery, addiction, and quiet despair. A teenage babysitter becomes dangerously infatuated with a powerful married man, while in the corporate world, a Rolex-wearing executive threatens livelihoods in the name of "efficiency." Each story, based on true events, exposes the systems that reward appearance, obedience, and silence-until they don't.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G3Z8XQFZ
• ISBN13: 9798993807928
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Watch Woman Press
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"