Haunted by Dreams

By Cynthia Haggard

What if you keep having dreams of your handsome professor ~ dreams that occur every night, which are mildly indecent?

 

By day, Helena Martin is enveloped into the busyness of life as a working Mom, with two young daughters leading her a merry dance, while she works in a doctor's office as a receptionist.

 

By night, she has dreams. Haunting dreams which involve her professor in embarrassing situations ~ such as the time he nuzzled her cleavage while she sat next to his wife...

 

What can she say? Her husband is not going to understand...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cynthia Sally Haggard
• Release date: Oct 30, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201864217

Cynthia Haggard

As the child of a broken home, I have always been fascinated by the ebb and flow of family relationships. Which forces gather family members together within the bounds of an ancient shelter? Which forces slice through that shelter, so that a parting of ways makes those left behind feel as if they are standing in a tumble of bricks, enveloped by the jagged shards of a destroyed home. This is what I write about in my novels: THWARTED QUEEN—Welcome to 1400s England, where a family feud between the Yorks, Lancasters and Nevilles began the Wars of the Roses and inspired Game of Thrones. FAREWELL MY LIFE—Who is he? Who is this dark, handsome stranger who has become obsessed by 17-year-old Grace? Is he just the perfect accompanist for a Brahms sonata, or does he have other ideas? Welcome to a dark historical, set in early 20th century Washington DC and Berlin Germany, about a hidden murderer and how far he will go to control the women around him. Thwarted Queen won the IPPY Gold Medal for Audiobook Fiction May 2021. Farewell My Life won the Independent Press Award for Women’s Fiction April 2021 So who am I? I am a proud Englishwoman with American roots. Although I speak like the BBC, I have five relatives on that Mayflower! So I suppose it was not surprising that I eventually ended up here, in the United States, in the Mid-Atlantic region, where I spent all of my adult life, winding my way through four careers: violinist, cognitive scientist, medical writer, and novelist. I have spent more years in academic institutions that I care to share, but most recently, in June 2015, I graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Lesley University (located just north of Harvard Yard.) My biggest influence was my half-American grandmother, Stephanie Treffry, who had a natural story-telling ability. As a widow in 1970s Britain, Grandma Steffi didn't drive a car, so would spend time waiting for buses. Her stories were about various encounters she had at those bus-stops. Nothing extraordinary, except that she made them so funny, everyone was in fits of laughter. I try to emulate her when I write my novels. When I am not annoying everyone by dressing as if I live in the seventeenth century, I enjoy knitting, exercising, playing piano or cooking something in my wonderful kitchen.

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HAUNTED BY DREAMS

Flash Fiction

by Cynthia Sally Haggard

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HAUNTED BY DREAMS

THE DREAMS STARTED once Helena stopped seeing him.

His laughter chimed with some unfathomable feeling as he drew something from his pocket. The chain gleamed in the sunlight as it swung in slowing arcs, revealing a ring at the end. He picked up that ring the color of fire topped by a blazing diamond, freed it from the chain, and placed it on my finger. I smiled my answer up into his radiant face.

Helena blinked into