My genderflip tweets for the #TwitterFiction fest

So it’s begun!  The long awaited #TwitterFiction festival.

Next up: my #TwitterFiction fest series inspired by @tejucole drone stories: famous #novel 1st lines w/ #feminist twists to explore #gender

— A y a d e L e o n (@AyadeLeon) March 13, 2014

I was also inspired by the YouTube series “Girls on Film” which had female actors reenacting famous scenes that originally featured two male actors.

Someone must have slandered Josefina, for one morning, without having done anything wrong, everyone was calling her a slut. #TwitterFiction

— A y a d e L e o n (@AyadeLeon) March 13, 2014

From Franz Kafka’s The Trial

Mr. Dalloway said he would buy the flowers himself–he forgot, but his secretary sent his wife a lovely anniversary bouquet. #TwitterFiction

— A y a d e L e o n (@AyadeLeon) March 13, 2014

From Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway

Somewhere in la Mancha, a woman lived not long ago w/ a lance & ancient shield on a shelf, her name no one cares to remember #TwitterFiction

— A y a d e L e o n (@AyadeLeon) March 13, 2014

From Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

More to come…