Ever After

Imagine an alternate reality--where Jane Austen, Henry David Thoreau, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Emily Dickinson, Emma Lazarus, Oscar Wilde, Marcel Proust, Colette, Virginia Woolf, and Franz Kafka--all lived longer lives--wrote the poems, stories, and books we read in school--one of which changed history--and lived happily ever after with someone of the same gender. Get a cup of tea, turn off your phone, and let's travel to this other world!