Two years after the explosion of revolutions that rocked the Arab world from Tunisia to Yemen, writers have begun to publish their assessments of women’s gains and losses. The initial welcome and respect that sisters-in-combat enjoyed have in many cases given way to harassment and violence. Is this backlash typical of post-war retrenchment of women’s rights or is something different happening? To answer this question I will refer to women’s journalistic and creative writings. I will consider edited volumes with many women’s voices, for example, Fleeting Words: Anthology of Revolution (2102) that includes a wide variety of mostly creative writings from Tunisia and Writing Resistance: the Voices from Tunis to Damascus (2013) that collects testimonials from eight countries that address the ongoing resistance. I will also analyze a few women’s short stories and longer single-authored works from several countries to see what kind of future they promise. Do their stories provide some kind of vision out of the current chaos?