Articles published by Mary F. Sibley

6/25/2004
I'm a Schizophrenic and So Am I
Imagine a scenario such as this: a patient visits their psychiatrist faithfully, week after week, sometimes several times a week. They lay out their heart and soul and sometimes a little more information than any reasonable person needs to know, into the experienced hands of a doctor who is there...
6/24/2004
The Other Side of The Coin
A little girl's childhood, filled with dreams of stardom and a life of being rich, famous and recognized are jerked out in the blink of an eye by the continued rape of an 8-year-old girl by her father's "good family friend." She grows through the years, becoming every teenage male's "good time,"...
5/30/2004
Miracles Do Happen
Imagine a world of total darkness, where colours do not exist, the sight of beauty blackened. Add to the mixture, a total lack of sound; no chirping of birds, no baby's cry, music refused entrance, sirens that will never punctuate with intensity and ambition, the sound of a human voice obliterated...
3/2/2004
A Kiss On The Hand May Be Quite Continental
A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, but vampire fangs are a girl's best friend. Or, is it a case of beauty and the beast gone asunder? Perhaps Shadow of the Vampire is a tale of fantasy run amok; the "what if's" and "how could's" are combined to create a story of very imaginative...
3/2/2004
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Martin Balsam, Polly Bergen, Bernard Herrmann, J. Lee Thompson, John R. McDonald, Telly Savalas, Sam Leavitt and James R. Webb. This list comprises all the pluses that go into making a thriller of lust, revenge, retribution and calculated rumblings of a volcano ready...
Hud
3/2/2004
Goodbye, My Lovely
Imagine a small Texas town caught in a stranglehold of family values run amok; dust that blows winds hot and cold with frustrations and betrayals where the biggest excitement is listening to the grass grow. Three generations of a born and bred cowboy cattlemen clan that drips with enough venom and...
3/2/2004
Once Upon A Midnight Dreary, While I Pondered Weak and Weary. . .
A gothic mansion, squirreled away from all semblance of humanity, becomes the magnet that attracts a group of four unsuspecting people who get more than they bargained for over the course of a term to study the world of psychic phenomena. Add to this batter, a mixture of ingredients that range from...
3/2/2004
The Four Hundred of The Social Register
Our tale is set in New York City, with the social caste system of the times taking center stage, in tandem with the inner workings of a calculated menage a trois, which attempts to go against the flow of the strata that permeates "Mrs. Astor's Four Hundred" of the Social Register. Money, position,...
2/3/2004
Money Ball
The definition of a hustler, according to Webster's Dictionary, is a professional gamester, gambler, bookmaker or plunger, who also wears the coat of a prostitute or call girl (although in this case it would warrant the moniker of call boy). All this, and more, makes up the seamy, underbelly of the...
2/3/2004
The Academy Award nominations have been announced this morning and it was, as always, a heart-thumping heart-stopping venue guaranteed to raise the hackles on, or breath new life into, those in Tinsel Town who were expecting to hear those hallowed words, "And the nominees for... are" and their name...