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The Sins Of The Mothers, Sylvia Johns Schneller M.D.
The Sins Of The Mothers, Sylvia Johns Schneller M.D.
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
In The Sins of the Mothers, the main character, Bridgette, suffers a mental breakdown after the death of her three-month-old baby, Celeste, from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). She develops severe obsessive-compulsive disorder with the delusion that the child is trapped in Limbo because she was never baptized. The delusion haunts Bridgette, and she suffers brief dissociative episodes with visual hallucinations. Bridgette hears of a church in Provence where, according to a seventeenth century legend, children who died without baptism returned briefly to life under the intersession of Saint Pantaleon were baptized and gained heaven. She decides to exhume Celeste’s …
Father And Mother Songs, Heather Fowler
Father And Mother Songs, Heather Fowler
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
A collection of stories submitted by Heather Fowler for receipt of an MFA degree in Summer 2015.