![]() ![]() Her little brother jumped up and down with excitement. Her father held her hand,Īnd her mother held her brother’s. ![]() Red? The pipers wore a tartan of multiple grays. Marilyn remembers the pipers marchingĪround the little square of her hometown – or was it really hers? “Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t.” The voiceĮchoing down the yellow-green corridors sounds like bagpipes. Here is the reader’s introduction to Marilyn’s world: In that world events unfold which may or may not be her memories, but they are certainly bizarre and powerful. She neither speaks nor acts instead she projects an hallucinatory world into the crack in the wall opposite her bed. Marilyn is a catatonic schizophrenic that is a very rare diagnosis in these days of psychotropic medications. Who is your most unusual/most likeable character? For years I had intended to write a book about the meaning of his suicide. When I was a young adult, which is many years ago, my cousin, who had also been my best friend when we were growing up, committed suicide. What inspired you to write this particular story? It is about the choices that every person must make to assert personal freedom. Set in a psychiatric hospital Memoirs From the Asylum is about the fears that keep us locked-up and locked-in and the courage that sets us free. ![]()
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