Miss Mediocrity

About the Book

In a story written by the author in semi-autobiographical overtones, we move with Kathryn Pierce through the tangled web of Post Abortion Sydrome. A decision to abort made twenty-five years earlier finds Kathryn clutching tightly to a haunting she is only too willing to claim. Her forty-fifth birthday marks that turning in her life, when her anguish demands a reckoning with more than one spirit from her past. Leaving home to look again for all that eludes her, Kathryn meets up with Seth and his friends Mitchell and Perry, three homosexual boys with answers to the kind of questions that an injured psyche asks. A woman wears her womb on the inside of her soul, not tucked up insider her body, not where the specialists and the doctors think they can see what's going on. Overshadowed by the heart, the womb waits to be inhabited, waits for that tenancy that equals everything for which it was create. There is no tampering with that private place that does not etch the deed upon the woman, marking her in ways unsearchable, where even God cannot go in the hopes of having the slightest effect.

About the Author

A wife and mother for over a quarter of a century, Cynthia Karelis makes her home in the Potomac Highlands of West Virginia, very near the historic town of Fort Ashby. Her days are filled with family and her never ending fascination with the written word. A graduate of West Virginia University, Karelis acts on her love of history through the venue of historical tourism, both as a profession and a hobby. Committed to being the best student possible, she learns the most about life by sharing hers with her husband David and her daughters Natalie, Rebekah, Vanessa, and Olivia.