In Remembrance of Feelings

About the Book

There’s an evil that spread destruction to everyday people like you and I. That malignant growth have pulled families apart and shredded their life’s forever. My book, ‘In Remembrance of Feelings’, is a seventy-one thousand word non-fiction monogram that touches on a child’s demeanor and events as he watches his mother being torn to pieces by cancer. The complexity the child has are weighted by the isolation and the aftermath of what is next? And what to do? The inner conflict that he is faced with, offers an ‘ avant-garde ‘ approach by humanizing the emotions that plague him. In the book, as he makes sense of his tragedy [presented in regular print], he from time-to-time, reflects back and changes scenes (in bold print) to help get through his ordeal; and reminiscence about how it all started. Thus the scene changes in retrospect to further foster the chaotic mindset he is faced with. As well as, the emotional impact of how his nerves were singled out from the disconnection of his mind to the loneliness that repels his heart. The day to day survival of dealing with his mother’s pain and the divide of his own life, in trying to appear normal on the outside, proves to be too much for the child to absorb. Therefore, he keeps his emotions retained in his domain. Only to be retouched and resurfaced when he becomes an adult. The writings of his ordeal became therapy of sort to combat cancer and death’s cohorts like depression, fear, and terror. There were good days they shared like walking in the breeze or hiding in the leaves. With a laughter that stretched their smiles, until reality sat back in and corralled her pain as she echoed for help. Then the internal fight goes on for both of them. He wonders if his mother will get any better, through the treatments she receives. And she’s, hoping that the medication would relieve and ease her discomfort. 'In Remembrance of Feelings' is a story for all of us. My book displays a co-partnership with society's woes and the solidarity for the removal of pain that infiltrates when death follows cancer. My chronicles are society's anecdote. A hard pill to swallow when the infestation of cancer remains spilled to all sectors of our world

About the Author

My name is Dexter G. Thompson. I reside in Charlotte, North Carolina. I’m one of eight children from my late parents, Walter and Gladys Thompson. I’m a single parent with three children. Two are over the age of twenty-one, and my youngest daughter is seventeen. I have to include my pets...two beagles and three finches. I been employed in the field of Polymer Physics / Research and Development as a Senior Technical Specialist for thirty years with the same company. I won a Valentine Day Contest for a jingle that contained no more that sixteen words to a local radio station, WGIV, that was worth over three-thousand dollars in gold and diamonds jewelry, circa 1985. My poem, BLENDS, won platinum honors from the’ World of Poetry ‘foundation, circa 1990. I obtain a United States Patent, Pat.No.5,526,943 for the invention of a storage rack in 1994. My recipe received first place prize [$100] in the main Entree division from a cooking contest sponsored by The Salisbury Post and Food Lion Groceries Store in 2002.P