Clyde Jeanette Shore - Two by Two Media™

“We come into this world to love and be loved, not to endure harm in any shape or form by anyone. A woman’s body, heart, and voice are her own sacred rights.”

Clyde Jeanette Shore, born Winston Salem, NC 1948
(Two By Two Client #11, 2025)
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Clyde Jeanette Shore, named after her father and paternal grandmother, prefers to be called Jeanette. She was born in Winston Salem and raised on a tobacco farm along Chicken Bridge Road in Chatham County, Pittsboro, North Carolina—the setting of her family’s haunting true story. The fourth of seven children, Jeanette grew up steeped in rural Southern traditions, eventually leaving home after high school to attend Business College at Chapel Hill.

Jeanette is the author of My Purpose for Dying, a deeply personal LGBTQ nonfiction work honoring a promise to her youngest brother, Ricky Frederick Shore, who passed away in early 1994. The book traces Ricky’s fierce and loving spirit, his identity as a gay man, and his journey through the most devastating years of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and early 1990s—before life-saving treatments became available. Her second book, Chicken Bridge Road, is a historical novel rooted in family memory and real events. It centers on her mother, Pauline Darnell Shore, who in 1958 shot and killed her abusive husband, Clyde F. Shore —Jeanette’s father—while pregnant with Ricky and caring for six children. In a landmark case, Pauline was acquitted of murder by a Coroner’s Jury, marking one of the rare instances in North Carolina history in which a woman was found legally justified in killing her husband after prolonged abuse. Jeanette’s literary adaptation is both a daughter’s reckoning and a writer’s tribute—giving voice to a woman silenced for too long.

Writing Chicken Bridge Road was a cathartic act of healing, justice, and love. Jeanette’s work confronts domestic abuse, misogyny, and the mental health trauma passed down through generations. She honors her mother’s resilience and her family’s buried stories with lyrical honesty and a clear, unwavering voice.

Jeanette is well-traveled, spiritually grounded, and creatively driven. She paints with acrylics, writes in the early morning hours, and draws strength from meditation, prayer, and music—from gospel to rock and roll. She currently resides in Greensboro, North Carolina, where she shares a close and loving relationship with her daughter and extended family.

About the Project:

Two By Two Media is developing Chicken Bridge Road as a film pitch package in collaboration with author Clyde Jeanette Shore. Drawing from her novel and family archives, the project explores the resilience of women silenced by history through visual storytelling, archival photography, and a carefully researched screenplay treatment. This initiative extends Shore’s literary work into film, preserving her mother’s story and its lasting cultural impact.