Silence of My Father

“The traumas of childhood cast a shadow over the judgments of Rhea, a woman whose father fantasies put her in danger.”
- H.L. Osterman, Short Changed

Rhea Waye always thought the marriage to her childhood sweetheart would last forever but it didn’t work out that way and the loss threw her into a depression, though not the sort one would have expected. Rhea found herself weeping for a father who had left her mother two months before she was born. Her new therapist, Dr. Allison, said it best, “A new loss allows us to mourn all the others we miss, imagined or otherwise.” Rhea meets Edward only a month or two after the separation from her husband and she becomes obsessed with him. He fits her father fantasies perfectly. But Edward is the worst sort of nightmare and Rhea is caught again in the middle ground between truth and fantasy.

Ron Savage has published six novels, a story collection – two more novels and another collection on the way -- and over a hundred and twenty-five stories worldwide. He has both a BA and MA in psychology and a doctorate in counseling, all from the College of William and Mary. Ron has worked primarily as a therapist. He has also worked as a newspaper editor, actor and broadcaster.