Curtain Calls - Softcover

Mathias-Riegel, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1490320261 ISBN 13: 9781490320267

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Barbara Mathias-Riegel is the author of "Curtain Calls, a Collection of Short Stories," exploring love, loss, aging, aloneness and self-discovery. For over 30 years, she wrote features on family, psychology and women's issues which inspired her to write "Between Sisters: Secret Rivals, Intimate Friends." Also, she co-authored "40 Ways to Raise a Nonracist Child."

Her award-winning articles appeared in numerous publications, including the Washington Post, L.A. Times Syndicate, Journal Newspapers, Modern Maturity (AARP) and Family Therapy Networker.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1490320261
• ISBN 13: 9781490320267
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168