The twelve stories in Curtain Calls are about love, loss, aloneness and self-discovery told from the view of the very young to the elderly. No matter how heart-tugging the stories may be, there is always the redeeming element of humor. A widow meets her lover during a bank robbery; a nine-year-old confesses to the parish priest her fear she is going to murder someone; a man in his 80's learns that his buddy in assisted living is planning his wife's mercy killing; after hitting a deer, a woman's car catapults into a dark parkway where no one can hear her cries for help; a bored, stay-at-home young mother plots to attract her neighbor, a soldier recently back from the battlefield; a middle-aged bride's obsessions come vicariously close to spoiling her honeymoon in Portugal. In the last story, "Curtain Calls" a once-glamourous Pop singer faces her nineties without her lover, a man who had lived life to the fullest.
Three months after her beloved husband’s death, Magda Cooper sleeps fitfully with shades up and all lights blazing to ward against shadowy figures that terrorize her at night. Newly retired as a top-notch paralegal, suddenly she’s paralyzed with the thought of venturing beyond her quiet neighborhood in Washington DC. A master fabricator, Magda keeps her panic attacks and agoraphobia a secret from family and friends in order to keep her dignity. Her cover breaks when a desperate call for help comes from her abandoned pregnant niece who lives in a small fishing town in Northern Michigan, 700 miles from Magda’s safety zone. Magda Cooper could be any one of our neighbors, struggling unseen to us with a sometimes crippling condition, but who has a full life of loss, of love, of making a difference in the lives of those she loves. Told in the first person with a mix of candor and humor, this is an inspiring story of resilience against the throes of grieving and anxiety.
Three months after her beloved husband’s death, Magda Cooper sleeps fitfully with shades up and all lights blazing to ward against shadowy figures that terrorize her at night. Newly retired as a top-notch paralegal, suddenly she’s paralyzed with the thought of venturing beyond her quiet neighborhood in Washington DC. A master fabricator, Magda keeps her panic attacks and agoraphobia a secret from family and friends in order to keep her dignity. Her cover breaks when a desperate call for help comes from her abandoned pregnant niece who lives in a small fishing town in Northern Michigan, 700 miles from Magda’s safety zone. Magda Cooper could be any one of our neighbors, struggling unseen to us with a sometimes crippling condition, but who has a full life of loss, of love, of making a difference in the lives of those she loves. Told in the first person with a mix of candor and humor, this is an inspiring story of resilience against the throes of grieving and anxiety.
The twelve stories in Curtain Calls are about love, loss, aloneness and self-discovery told from the view of the very young to the elderly. No matter how heart-tugging the stories may be, there is always the redeeming element of humor. A widow meets her lover during a bank robbery; a nine-year-old confesses to the parish priest her fear she is going to murder someone; a man in his 80's learns that his buddy in assisted living is planning his wife's mercy killing; after hitting a deer, a woman's car catapults into a dark parkway where no one can hear her cries for help; a bored, stay-at-home young mother plots to attract her neighbor, a soldier recently back from the battlefield; a middle-aged bride's obsessions come vicariously close to spoiling her honeymoon in Portugal. In the last story, "Curtain Calls" a once-glamourous Pop singer faces her nineties without her lover, a man who had lived life to the fullest.
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