Mourning Doves After The Fire

This is a story of love and loss,of passion and tragedy and of thetriumph of the spirit in both manand beast.

Pennsylvania 1910. Abby Whitman,a twenty-eight year old secretarywith an interest in classical music,lives with her mother, Maggie, whoworks as a part time seamstress tohelp make ends meet.

Abby pays a visit to Dr. RaymondFletcher, whom she secretly fanciesand he gives her the unfortunatenews that she has a cancer.Dr. Fletcher is devoted to Abbyand he seeks the aid of a renowneddoctor who has apparentlydiscovered an experimentaltreatment that has proven toeradicate cancer.

During a camping trip, Abbybefriends Madison, a young girl,who shares with Abby an interestin music and who will provide adramatic change in Abbys life.Abby is under Dr. Fletchers personalcare and an appreciation for eachother develops as he begins totreat her cancer and her prognosisremains uncertain.

A subplot to the human story involves a female mourning dove, recently widowed and her bird neighbors who nest in the large oak tree near Abbys house.

As the human story develops so does the story of heartache and resolve in the birds as their own existence is constantly threatened. The birds serve as a witness to the human story around them as well as their own.