About Bonnie
Sedgemore's Life
As a child, Bonnie was given away by her mother to twelve different homes. Her childhood, painful and difficult, led her to determine she was ultimately in control of her life. Only she could occupy her mind and make decisions about where she was to go and her goals. She could overcome her childhood to succeed. She determined to write to let others know they could overcome their difficulties.
When she was home, her mother often locked her in her room with nothing to occupy her, no toys, no books, no nothing, but this treatment forced her think and to evaluate what life she wanted. She realized that no matter how she was treated, she was still in control of her life. Only she could decide where her life was to go. She began to set goals.
At sixteen the school principle asked her if she wanted to work for The Dallas Morning News as the reporter for the small cities news. She went on to report for The Shreveport Times and had a column in another small newspaper.
She worked her way through college, studying psychology rather than writing as she felt if she was to write about people she needed to understand people.
Bonnie Sedgemores ‘Differences of Two Girls’ is a powerful, emotional read that stayed with me long after I finished it.
The Price of Love’ is a gripping story of resilience. Bonnie’s writing is raw, honest, and incredibly moving.
Conflicting Emotions’ took me on an unforgettable journey of loss and healing. Bonnie Sedgemore’s storytelling is truly remarkable.
Alma and Stacey
Upon first seeing Alma in a class at college, Stacey notes the differences between them. She does not expect to be friends, yet, they bond firmly. As their feelings for each other deepen, their differences slowly pull them apart.
Stacey wrinkles her nose when Alma tells her she is paying for college by taking tricks. She warns Alma of the dangers that come with doing this. While Alma tends to business, Stacey waits across the street feeling an accomplice.
In contrast, Stacey has given up her violin scholarship and her chance of becoming a professional in exchange for a business degree her mother insists she will need. She has broken with her mother and feels alone in the world. She needs Alma.
Differences, yes, but they are drawn to each other, understand each others pain, laugh together, share their meagre meals, and tons of coffee. They are so broke they joke over mixing water with dried up jam to make-do.
The rubber band of life tightens and tightens and then—snap.
The Price of Love
What am I to do now, Sally thought as she trudged down the macadam road with her few possessions. It was getting dark. She was without family, home, money or food. She had no place to go for the night and she knew what happened to young girls on the street. Her mother, selfish and mean, had abandoned her, disappeared without a trace after giving her away to strangers. Anyway, living with her family had been disastrous. Her mother and stepfather had both mistreated her.
She was not a typical 14-year-old after being rejected by her mother many times and living in so many homes with strangers. She was conscientious and helpful, always willing to work for her room and board even when she was younger.
Now, the family Sally lived with forced her to leave as they could no longer afford her. The time had come for her to fend for herself, but how was she to do it?
Conflicting Emotions
Plagued by illness and haunted by the loss of her children, Olivia is driven by a fierce determination to heal. She suspects her ailments are tied to the heartache of her estrangement and sets out on a quest for wellness. As she grapples with her own health and remorse, she takes up residence in a modest apartment near a hospital, where she meets Jolene, a sometimes friend, sometimes burden, battling her own demons with alcohol.
As Olivia confronts her guilt, she also finds herself entangled in Jolene’s turbulent life, compelled to offer aid. Resolute in shedding the weight of her past sorrows and mending broken bridges, Olivia embarks on a poignant journey through the tapestry of her family’s history, her marriage, and the myriad ways she has sought love.
With each memory turned over, Olivia seeks answers and redemption. Can uncovering the roots of her estrangement also lead to her recovery, both bodily and of the bonds with her children?
The Machiavelian Man
Boundless ambition drives Ed Liedco. He is determined to build his own boatyard though he has no funds. He is ruthless, cunning and immoral and has no guilt over using money whoever it belongs to or however he finds it. When Blair naively invests $70,000 in Ed’s new boatyard, Ed takes the money as his own leaving no record of the transaction. He is like a dog who sees another dog’s bone and takes it for himself.
Ed establishes Olga, a retired accountant with a solid honest reputation as manager at his current rented boatyard. Though at first, he questions Olga’s too proper reputation, he soon allows himself to rely on her support, the only employee he actually trusts.
On the other hand, Olga quickly finds herself in turmoil over Ed’s behavior. She is dismayed when Ed draws money meant for payroll from the bank leaving no way to pay his crew. She is further distressed over Ed’s falsifying his financial report, but she believes she should support him when he is paying her salary.
About this time, Blair begins to fear that something is amiss concerning his investment when Olga can find no record of it. He insists he is a silent partner. She sees Blair becoming more and more disturbed by fear of losing his money.
Olga meanwhile is contending with marriage troubles when she believes her husband has taken a lover. She fights to save her marriage and continue her job until she and her husband separate, and Ed makes one unacceptable move that causes her an overload of stress. She then goes to the bank, withdraws her pay, and without notice, abruptly quits. Ed sees this act as defection and betrayal, causing him to lie to Blair about Olga, a final error that will destroy him.
Why do you write?
How do I stop writing would be a better question. I once decided to quit writing after a brutal sum of rejection letters. I asked myself, why did I write, anyway? What made me think I was going to be a great writer?
I didn’t have the foggiest notion. Some month later as I was in the bath with only my head out of water, I found myself mentally writing a story. Quitting was hopeless. I had never quit. All along, the stories popped into being whether I wanted them to or not.
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