The Red Glass

About the Book

Can an absent mother’s love save her child? Sadie rummages her memory for every proverb her mother uttered; they become her mantras. Her ‘before-drugs’ mother always tried to see goodness everywhere and Sadie tries to emulate her, soaking up any glints of kindness to insulate her in hard times. Can poetry substitute for tears? Sadie expresses her emotions in poems, which she hides away in her suitcase, and if found will cost her a beating. Can simple objects like a red plastic glass minister to an abused child? Yes, if you are Sadie; the glass is her talisman. This is not just a story of just hardship. It’s about coming through hardship with your soul intact, about fi nally triumphing and thriving. At its core it’s about fi nding, although not understanding, forgiveness.

About the Author

Pamela K. Keyser lives and works in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, where she resides with her husband of 36 years. Her children live nearby and she remains close them and her grandchildren. She is now working on a series of mysteries—the first one, VANISHED, should be finished in 2009. “They’ll always be some major and minor dysfunction in all my poems, stories, and books. Pamela previously published a story in Angels on Earth Magazine