Download or read book Your Mother s Nightmares written by Anitha Krishnan and published by Dream Pedlar Books. This book was released on 2024-04-20 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The worst is not what happens. The worst is what every mother fears could happen. Imagination collides with maternal fear in this bold collection of troubling, twisted tales from a fiction writer who isn’t afraid to plumb the often terrifying emotional depths of the motherhood experience. A party across the street lures a trusting three-year-old into an adventure, but thrusts his mother into a nightmare. A mirror offers the gift of more time, something every parent longs for, but what will it take in return? A mother erases her seven-year-old’s painful memories to leave him with the impression of a perfect childhood. Only, it leads to imperfect consequences. Teeming with the unthinkable, this collection of six never-before-seen short stories tugs at every mother’s helpless heartstrings, coaxes out her deepest and darkest fears for her children, and presents them in the guise of fantasy fiction so that her nightmares won’t come true. Stories included are: The Party across the Street A Suitable Colour for a Ghost Memory Games* The Goldilocks Zone Hide-and-Seek** The Gift of Time *Memory Games secured an Honourable Mention in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest, July—September 2023 quarter. **Hide-and-Seek secured an Honourable Mention in the Spring/Summer 2021 issue of Allegory Magazine, Volume 39/66.
Download or read book Every Mother s Nightmare written by Charles Bosworth and published by Onyx. This book was released on 1995 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true-crime drama of two mothers and one very lone district attorney on the trail of a murderer through a long list of suspects in a world of drugs and violence.
Download or read book A Mother s Nightmare Incest written by John E. B. Myers and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1997-05-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protecting children from child abuse using the legal system can be a complicated and sometimes devastating process for parents. Suspecting sexual abuse, a mother may seek a divorce and custody, orùif already divorcedùrequest withdrawal of visitation rights. However, when unable to prove abuse, she may be labeled "hysterical" and jeopardize her case. A MotherÆs NightmareùIncest assists professionals and parents in reducing the likelihood that the legal system will backfire. Easy to read and including step-by-step strategies for success, this manual answers myriad critical questions asked by parents who encounter the possibility of incest, such as: + What happens to a child who experiences abuse? + What do I do if the abuse cannot be established? + How do I find out what my legal options are? + What can I do to keep emotionally balanced? + What will happen in the court system? While alerting readers to the very real dangers that await those who accuse a spouse of child sexual abuse, author John E. B. Myers helps parents and professionals navigate the current court system to work toward attaining victoryùand safety. He provides supportive and practical suggestions for documenting evidence and seeking an expertÆs advice. Myers demystifies the subject of incest and explains the requirements of the court system so that mothers will enter the legal arena prepared. This book is not only for mothers. Health professionals, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, pastoral counselors, and any other professional working to protect children from abuse will want to read and refer to A MotherÆs NightmareùIncest. Likewise, the book is also ideal for academics and students to use in courses that cover child abuse issues.
Download or read book My Mother s Nightmare written by Jeannie Klerk De-Vries and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We've all heard horror stories of war and suffering. We cannot imagine living through the terrible conditions and fearing for our lives in our own homes. But that is just what brave young Sophia De Vries had to do in war-torn Holland in the 1940's.At the age of twenty-one, Sophia De Vries, desiring to free herself from her parents' strict rules and to become a teacher, left her village of Meppel in Holland, bound for The Hague. Just a few short years later, Hitler and the Holocaust changed Sophia's life forever. My Mother's Nightmare, taken directly from Sophia's diary and published posthumously by her daughter, is her story of how she survived and eventually made her way to America to start over.
Download or read book A Mother s Nightmare written by Cathy Crimmins and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2009-08-18 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Lorenzo's Oil, a brutally searing story of one mother's quest to save her child's life. One day Kelly Crimmins was a happy seemingly healthy twelve-year-old; the next she confessed to her mom that she'd had blood in her urine for months. After a series of tests, Kelly was diagnosed with a life-threatening, potentially terminal autoimmune disease. A Mother's Nightmare details Cathy and Kelly's three-year medical and emotional journey, which took them from Philadelphia to Minnesota's Mayo Clinic and back again. Cathy writes about the toll taken on a young girl who suddenly becomes a patient, and about a mom who in fighting for her little girl's life becomes sick herself with worry and fear. As she did in her award-winning Where Is the Mango Princess?, Cathy makes illness both personal and universal. It's an account all readers will find memorable and moving.
Download or read book A Young Wife Mothers Nightmare written by Bridget Corboy and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine months and five days after their wedding day, John and Bridget Corboy welcomed their first baby. Over the moon with joy, neither had any idea that everything was about to change when John, who had just passed the test to join the Boston Police Department, received a flu vaccine. In a chronological narrative of their experiences from that day forward, Corboy recounts their roller coaster journey after John was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome, a condition that causes the immune system to attack the peripheral nervous system. Even after John was given last rights by a priest, Corboy details how she, a twenty-six-year-old new wife and mother, relied on her faith for strength and hope as her beloved husband endured a tracheotomy, chronic pain, physical therapy, and the earth-shattering statement from an intern that he would never walk again. Finally after a months-long stay in the hospital, Corboy shares insight into their continuing journey after John was allowed to return home and she became his caregiver. Throughout her touching story, Corboy reminds us that miracles occur when we believe and pray. A Young Wife and Mother’s Nightmare shares the inspirational true story of a woman’s experiences after her new husband was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome.
Download or read book Your Mother s Nightmares written by Anitha Krishnan and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The worst is not what happens. The worst is what every mother fears could happen. Imagination collides with maternal fear in this bold collection of troubling, twisted tales from a fiction writer who isn't afraid to plumb the often terrifying emotional depths of the motherhood experience. A party across the street lures a trusting three-year-old into an adventure, but thrusts his mother into a nightmare. A mirror offers the gift of more time, something every parent longs for, but what will it take in return? A mother erases her seven-year-old's painful memories to leave him with the impression of a perfect childhood. Only, it leads to imperfect consequences. Teeming with the unthinkable, this collection of six never-before-seen short stories tugs at every mother's helpless heartstrings, coaxes out her deepest and darkest fears for her children, and presents them in the guise of fantasy fiction so that her nightmares won't come true. Stories included are: The Party across the Street A Suitable Colour for a Ghost Memory Games* The Goldilocks Zone Hide-and-Seek** The Gift of Time *Memory Games secured an Honourable Mention in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest, July-September 2023 quarter. **Hide-and-Seek secured an Honourable Mention in the Spring/Summer 2021 issue of Allegory Magazine, Volume 39/66.
Download or read book Every Mother s Nightmare written by Carla Monsoon and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carla and her husband Dean fought for custody of Dean's 2 children, Annie and Peter, following the news that they were living with their mother and a paedophile. The children had been damaged beyond repair following their treatment and what ensued was a testing time rebuilding the lives of 2 children and a court battle that would take 2 years to get through. Following the lengthy residency battle, they hoped that all their troubles were over, however, their troubles were only just beginning.....................
Download or read book Coal Run written by Tawni O'Dell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-06-07 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her eagerly awaited second novel, Tawni O'Dell takes readers back to the coal-mining country of western Pennsylvania. Set in a town ravaged and haunted by a mine explosion that took the lives of 96 men, Coal Run explores the life of local deputy and erstwhile football legend, "The Great Ivan Z.," as he prepares for a former teammate's imminent release from prison. As the week unfolds and Ivan struggles to confront his demons, he reveals himself to be a man whose conscience is burdened by a long-held and shocking secret.
Download or read book Back Roads written by Tawni O'Dell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Funny and heartbreaking, this New York Times bestselling debut perfectly captures the maddening confusion of adolescence and the prickly nature of family with irony and unerring honesty. Harley Altmyer should be in college having the time of his life. He should be free from the backwards Pennsylvania coal town he calls home, with its lack of jobs and no sense of humor. Instead, he’s constantly reminded of just how messed up everything is... Harley’s mother is in prison for killing his father, so he’s in charge of bringing up his younger sisters and working two jobs to pay the bills—and that doesn’t leave a lot of time for distractions. But lately, he’s getting more and more sidetracked by lusting after Callie Mercer, his middle-aged neighbor. As he struggles to keep it together, things begin to spin out of control. Soon Harley finds that as shattered as his family is, there are still more crushing surprises in store. “In Harley, O’Dell has created a hero who’s heartbreakingly believable; like Holden Caulfield, he uses caustic humor to hide his pain. Readers will care very much about him and his future, if indeed he has one.”—St. Petersburg Times
Download or read book A Daughter s Desire a Mother s Worst Nightmare written by Geeta Mangal and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Daughters Desire, A Mothers Worst Nightmare tells the true story of one womans quest as she struggles to preserve her arranged marriage by continuing in her abusive relationship. The names have been changed to protect the privacy of the people involved in the story. Shivani Ragunandan, a twenty-two-year-old college graduate, found herself betrothed into marriage by her family. Although it was not what she truly wanted, she went ahead with the weddingonly to find herself in a very unhappy marriage. Her husband was emotionally and physically abusive, cheating on her whenever the opportunity presented itself. Abiding by the rules of an arranged marriage in her Indo-Guyanese tradition, she was not allowed to file for a divorce. She tried continuously to preserve her marriage to her twenty-seven-year-old husband. Although Shivani knew deep inside that this was not what she wanted, she feared her innocence, dignity, and reputation would be tarnished forever if she left her husband. Bound by cultural ties, she had no one to turn to but the celestial deities and her mother for guidance, faith, and strength.
Download or read book Sister Mine written by Tawni O'Dell and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-03-13 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shae-Lynn Penrose drives a cab in a town where no one needs a cab—but plenty of people need rides. A former police officer with a closet full of miniskirts, a recklessly sharp tongue, and a tendency to deal with men by either beating them up or taking them to bed, she has spent years carving out a life for herself and her son in Jolly Mount, Pennsylvania, the tiny coal-mining town where she grew up. Two years ago, five of Shae-Lynn’s miner friends were catapulted to media stardom when they were rescued after surviving four days trapped in a mine. As the men struggle to come to terms with the nightmarish memories of their ordeal, along with the fallout of their short- lived celebrity, Shae-Lynn finds herself facing harsh realities and reliving bad dreams of her own, including her relationship with her brutal father, her conflicted passion for one of the miners, and the hidden identity of the man who fathered her son. When the younger sister she thought was dead arrives on her doorstep, followed closely by a gun-wielding Russian gangster, a shady New York lawyer, and a desperate Connecticut housewife, Shae-Lynn is forced to grapple with the horrible truth she discovers about the life her sister’s been living, and with one ominous question: Will her return result in a monstrous act of greed or one of sacrifice? Tawni O’Dell’s trademark blend of black humor, tenderness, and a keen sense of place is evident once again as Shae-Lynn takes on past demons and all-too-present dangers.
Download or read book The Nazi s Granddaughter written by Silvia Foti and published by Regnery History. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hero–or Nazi? Silvia Foti was raised on reverent stories about her hero grandfather, a martyr for Lithuanian independence and an unblemished patriot. Jonas Noreika, remembered as “General Storm,” had resisted his country’s German and Soviet occupiers in World War II, surviving two years in a Nazi concentration camp only to be executed in 1947 by the KGB. His granddaughter, growing up in Chicago, was treated like royalty in her tightly knit Lithuanian community. But in 2000, when Silvia traveled to Lithuania for a ceremony honoring her grandfather, she heard a very different story—a “rumor” that her grandfather had been a “Jew-killer.” The Nazi’s Granddaughter is Silvia’s account of her wrenching twenty-year quest for the truth, from a beautiful house confiscated from its Jewish owners, to familial confessions and the Holocaust tour guide who believed that her grandfather had murdered members of his family. A heartbreaking and dramatic story based on exhaustive documentary research and soul-baring interviews, The Nazi’s Granddaughter is an unforgettable journey into World War II history, intensely personal but filled with universal lessons about courage, faith, memory, and justice.
Download or read book One of Us written by Tawni O'Dell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Smart, polished, successful, Dr. Sheridan Doyle is the go-to forensic psychologist for the Philadelphia DA's office and the scandal-hungry local news. But beneath his public image, he's still Danny Doyle, the bookish boy from a blue-collar family, plagued by night terrors and a tragic history. Returning to a hometown grappling with its own ghosts, Doyle finds a dead body at the infamous gallows where a band of rebellious Irish miners was executed a century earlier. Strangely, the body is connected to the wealthy family responsible for the miners' deaths. Danny teams up with veteran detective Rafe, a father-like figure from his youth, to build a profile of the killer - and comes dangerously close to uncovering startling truths about his own family, his past, and himself"--Back cover.
Download or read book A Shattered Nightmare written by Camille Hage and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a true story about the author's life who named herself Connie. The book is her life's journey with the Lord and His miraculous interventions throughout those years. She made countless mistakes; however, the Lord, due to His infinite mercy and love, saved her children and her from the horrors of many of those mistakes over and over again. Her book is filled with supernatural experiences--one miracle after another. She believed the Lord wanted it written to increase faith in not only His saved children but also in His abused ones. The Lord is no respecter of persons (Romans 2:11). The Lord loves us all the same. The Lord intervenes in one's life when one loves Him and has faith. Faith moves our Lord. In the book, Connie endeavors to demonstrate this truth. Connie loved the Lord with all her heart, soul, mind, and strength. She met Him as a child, and He became to her a mother and a father. As an adult, because of distrustful relationships with those around her, fear caused decisions that warranted a way of escape. That means of escape would, many times, birth a miracle. In other words, many of her decisions would cause a nightmare to erupt in her life. But before the eruption, a miracle would cancel and shatter the nightmare.
Download or read book Out of the Nightmare written by David L. Conroy and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of the Nightmare. An all-out assault on the barriers that stand between you and recovery from depression and suicidal pain. . decomposes recovery from depression into recovery from envy, shame, self-pity, grandiosity, fear, stigma, social abuse, and the double binds and vicious circles of the mythology of suicide. ...a drug-free approach to getting better and staying better. This book provides counselors with a bold new non-technical framework that is free from the prejudices that deter the suicidal from seeking help. It provides those who have lost a loved one to suicide with a broad array of new conceptual tools to understand the tragedy and to find help for stuck positions of bereavement. Most importantly, it provides all those who suffer from depression with hundreds of resources to find their way out of the nightmare.
Download or read book Nightmare in Hostage Hills written by Christina Mask and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sadly, Christina’s journey, and her children’s experience of being collateral damage, is not atypical. Kudos for her strength and bravery in putting her story out there as a cautionary tale for others.” (Dr. Susan Weitzman, author, Not to People like Us: Hidden Abuse in Upscale Marriages). “Christina Mask’s Nightmare is constructed around fragments from a life in agony as one woman attempts to escape abuse, retain her sanity, and regain the custody of three children the family court and her husband have taken from her. It’s all here—the daily records over months, then years; the diary entries; the self-blame; the excuses; the shame; the absurdist dialogues with family therapists; marginalia from readings or lectures or religious texts; letters pleadings with judges and lawyers and evaluators; poems; letters to and from the children, real and imagined; the reports that put her claims of abuse in quotations; and so, so much more. These pieces are loosely joined by a narrative and an interior monologue that I sometimes found too much to bear. But then I realized I was scanning something akin to a Picasso painting, whose underlying truth lay not in what was on the page, not the fragments, but in the hope that put them out here, no more evident than in the endlessly reasonable letters Mask writes to intractable foes. Mask has cast her eye on what Yeats termed ‘the broken, crumbling battlement’ of the self and lived to write it. As one director famously said about the sixty women and children crowded into her six-bedroom shelter, ‘If they can manage this, they can manage anything.’ Christina’s book gives us faith that she is right.” (Evan Stark, PhD, MSW. The writer is professor emeritus at Rutgers University, and author of Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life [Oxford, 2007]).
