June 8, 2026
Benjamin's Women
Benjamin’s Women “Stop it! Are you nuts? Let go of me!” Elaine fought to break free. She stood at the top of the stairs in off-white organza, a little crepe hat with ostrich...
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Stella
Jansen
Novelist · Poet · Storyteller
An Amsterdam-based novelist whose debut novel The Unforeseen traces the lives of three women across two continents and several decades — a story of adversity, windfall, and the grace of unexpected closure.
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The Unforeseen
A novel
Cibelle grows up in the sun-drenched countryside of Oaxaca, raised by her grandparents and gifted with an artist's eye. Her mother Eisa chases fame in Los Angeles, only to find that true love arrives and vanishes in the most unexpected ways. And Solana, the grandmother whose voice once filled the nightclubs of...
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Stella Jansen
Stella Jansen is an Amsterdam-based novelist and poet whose debut novel The Unforeseen was published in 2022. Her second novel, Facing the Music, is forthcoming.
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June 2, 2026
Whimsical Whereabouts - A chapter out of my upcoming novel Facing The Music
Whimsical whereabouts I was taken there with three other girls, two from the Philippines and a Sudanese woman. The procedure...
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