Abandonment | Abandonment
Apr.22.2011
A modern Scheherazade in New Orleans in 1984. Alone. Abandoned in New Orleans with no friends or family, surviving only on her wits, Pearl Caldwell has finally put herself back on the road back to the life she wants. Then she's arrested on a false charge and thrown into jail. Among women of all...
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Mar.10.2011
Pearl Caldwell wakes up in New Orleans, anxious to see the final days of the World's Fair, when she finds her companion, J.D. Bath, has taken everything, including her credit cards and money. She is stranded.
Six weeks later, Pearl is in the French Quarter celebrating her job with her friends...
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Feb.22.2011
Fiordaliza Charles was born in the Dominican Republic in 1979. She was raised in New York City by her mother, Julia, who raised her all by herself and never complained. She came to the USA with no knowledge of the English language. At an early age, she had no choice but to try to understand her...
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Feb.04.2011
A man's eyes are the windows to his soul...if he has one.
Deep in the darkness of a Depression-era night, a man addicted to alcohol sells something precious to obtain it. His vile action impacts the lives of two entire families, and it will be over two decades before the horrible wrong begins to...
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Oct.28.2009
Camilla and her husband have successful careers and a beautiful young daughter. Then she discovers a lump in her breast and realizes too late that she has turned her back on the people whose support she needs the most. Generations of women in her family, moving from a southern small town to Queens...
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Jul.16.2009
Each of these five stories, linked by icons and symbols like Barbie dolls, harmonicas, and fat, are punctuated by original art by award winning expressionist Janet Snell.
Writer Deborah Batterman says: "Writers are often asked where their ideas come from. A more telling question...
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Apr.18.2009
It's summer and hell in Tucson, Arizona. Leslie and daughters, Sam and Audrey, have just landed at The Oasis, a seedy motor court along the Miracle Mile, a street notorious for prostitution, drugs, and skin joints. They are at the tag end of everything from money to hope, and so begins their...
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Mar.05.2008
A man returns to the place of his birth to sew up memories of incest and abandonment.
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Dec.21.2007
Gifford’s father, Rudy Winston, was considered a “good man to know” in the wild and woolly Chicago of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s. His list of friends and acquaintances included everyone from the mayor of Chicago and actress Dorothy Lamour to characters with monikers like Willie “the Hero” Nero and...
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Dec.14.2007
Hours after giving birth, a young woman flees her baby and her husband and slips into a new life, leaving both to rebuild lives for themselves without her.
"Tells a riveting story beautifully."New York Daily News
"Leavitt has a wonderful insight into interpersonal relationships and writes in a...
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