mothers

May 2023 10

Motherhood, and the Importance of our Intergenerational Friendships

2023 Articles, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Laura Jarratt

One of the really important themes that comes out of Without Saying Goodbye is that being a good mother is something we learn. It’s not innate in that we can just rely on instinct to make it all happen for us. There’s a widely quoted African proverb: ‘It takes a village to raise a child.’ In the developed world, we have sometimes lost that sense of the importance of aunties, grandmothers, and older women feeding into our collective knowledge of how to raise our children.

May 2013 11

Pelican Spring: A Mother’s Day Mystery Short Story

2013 Articles, Mysteryrat's Maze, Terrific Tales

by Paula Gail Benson

The quest for scholarships is a rite of Spring, but in my twelve years as a law school admissions director, I had never seen a situation like this one.
I’d attended plenty of meetings with potential students, seeking to optimize their chances at partial or full scholarships. What I had not previously encountered was a student-parent-financial-package-tag-team.

May 2013 11

Remembering Mama: Two Cozies and…well…Psycho

2013 Articles, Mysteryrat's Maze, Sharon Tucker

by Sharon Tucker

In the interest of variety, it’s always fun to compare what is somewhat similar but is really so not. Why not examine two rather traditional cozy mysteries about rather traditional mothers---Mother’s Day is May 12, you know--and then look at Robert Bloch’s masterpiece about a different kind of mother altogether?

May 2013 9

Dangerous To Mess With: A Mother’s Day Mystery Short Story

2013 Articles, Mysteryrat's Maze, Terrific Tales

by J.R. Lindermuth

“Woman has no virtue,” Simon Kemble said.
Can’t rightly say I disagreed with him, but a sheriff’s got to take things at face value. Can’t go making accusations without proof or contributing to speculation on the nature of a person. I looked from Kemble to the girl seated beside him at his kitchen table. She sure matched the description of Mary Ann Hewitt.