From the Afterword:
I wanted to write about Dorcas because her voice kept returning to my imagination. Not much is said about her in the New Testament.
She lived in the first century after Christ.
She sewed in Joppa on the Mediterranean, some thirty-five miles from Jerusalem.
She died.
She was brought back to life by the Apostle, Peter.
I wanted to explore her life through writing. I wanted to know the possibilities, even if a gist, or a somewhere-in-the-neighborhood-of.
I began by questioning. What was her life like? What happened when she died? When she returned to life? What can be known of history anyway?
Thinking in terms of the desert region where she lived, I wanted a mirage of her life, with imagination as fill-in between fragments of the Old and New Testments. I wanted to hear her voice before the event of her death. I wanted to hear it after she returned to her life.
Dorcas was full of good works, yet there had to be frailties of the human sort. I wanted to see her sewing and sewing, making garments and garments. I wanted to see her clothed with the New Testament Life.
Jacket art: For Dorcas by Cynthia Miller.
ISBN 0-925904-27-9, Chax Press, Tucson, 1999
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