A Circle Outside

A Circle Outside is a novel about a household of lesbian feminist witches living in a women-only commune. They struggle with the concerns of young women: toxic friendships, self-doubt, parents, smashing Patriarchy, and how to take out the garbage. There’s a sweet romance and a dreadful romance. Also a ghost.

The women in A Circle Outside believe that the only real magic is self-transformation.

Although the story takes place in the early 1980s, it is not a history, but an endowment.

Wendy Underhill

Wendy Underhill is the pseudonym of an old dyke living in Santa Cruz. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in many magazines and anthologies. She wrote A Circle Outside in response to a men’s rights movement masquerading as feminism. wendy@wendyunderhill.com.