A writer sits; she touches pen to paper as we enter her mind and meet a young woman fearing love; a daughter seeking peace with her father; a guy facing the loss of a dear friend; an older woman finding herself in an unwilling affair, and the writer herself, remembering the silence of her childhood--all five characters fighting for freedom from grief, for release and relief. A willful purging of what we left unsaid.
Elizabeth Aspenlieder
Georgia McCulloch
Ella Loudon
Rudy Mungaray
Samantha Scaffidi
Christine Spang
A writer sits; she touches pen to paper as we enter her mind and meet a young woman fearing love; a daughter seeking peace with her father; a guy facing the loss of a dear friend; an older woman finding herself in an unwilling affair, and the writer herself, remembering the silence of her childhood--all five characters fighting for freedom from grief, for release and relief. A willful purging of what we left unsaid.
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