B'witched - Parnham, Victoria G.
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Word hit a child as hard as a fist. I know because I lived with a wicked witch, whom I called mother, for nearly twenty years. The hurt, pain and suffering caused by constant criticism, belittling and insulting behavior takes many years to get over. I did not know until many years later, that she was sexually abused. Could this be what caused her behavior or the way she treated us? I don't know. My brother and I suffered from such horrors; it is a wonder we made it through. Many folks turn to drugs or alcohol to ease the pain, including myself. However, there is hope, I am proof of that. These…mehr

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Word hit a child as hard as a fist. I know because I lived with a wicked witch, whom I called mother, for nearly twenty years. The hurt, pain and suffering caused by constant criticism, belittling and insulting behavior takes many years to get over. I did not know until many years later, that she was sexually abused. Could this be what caused her behavior or the way she treated us? I don't know. My brother and I suffered from such horrors; it is a wonder we made it through. Many folks turn to drugs or alcohol to ease the pain, including myself. However, there is hope, I am proof of that. These are not all my stories; some were told to me by acquaintances and people in AA.
Autorenporträt
Victoria G. Parnham is from Maine where the story unfolds. As a child, her greatest pleasure was reading books and her favorite writer at that time was Grace Livingston Hill. "I thought to myself, I would love to be a writer. About twenty years ago, I took a writing course. Writing is the best way I have of expressing myself and for me, it just flows. So, to start, I keep little notes on index cards/post its and I don't actually keep them in much order. When I undertook this project, I laid them all out on a table and picked which ones I could use in my book and which ones could be saved for future use. Incidentally, my instructor stated that I had too much information and had more than enough for a second book. I got my idea from the commercial I saw once, 'words hit a child as hard as a fist.' I built it from there." Stephen King once said to take an idea and see what kind of fossil you can dig up. Having talked mostly to adults who were the victims of child abuse - including verbal and mental abuse - she has heard of several instances where they would rather have been struck or beaten than to endure the constant criticism and humiliation of cruel, hateful, belittling words in addition to being told they were 'wrong' all the time, being told they were dumb or stupid and everything they did or said was wrong. A Crack in the Sky is the author's debut novel.