Excerpt from “Walking Backwards” (<em>LitSnap</em>)

From LitSnapStories.
“What Matters” (Winner of GrubStreet’s 2015 Muse Flash Contest)

A hospital fundraiser is the scene of a chance meeting in Linda Cutting’s “What Matters”. Ailments small and large spark a lighthearted flirtation that leads a man and a woman to connect. (3:01)
<em>Memory Slips: A Memoir of Music and Healing</em>

Finalist for an Audie Award, 1997. A concert pianist describes how the sudden resurgence of repressed memories of years of sexual abuse by her father and the suicides of her two brothers destroyed her ability to remember and produce music, and her painful struggle to confront the past and regain her life.