Silent Screams is a cycle of short stories and poems on the theme of love . real and illusory. It is threaded with the motif of judgment, even bias, offering insight into the many ways we misinterpret loved ones, friends, family, partners, spouses. Underneath the theme and motif is the recurring chords of our basic need for safety, our futile quest for unconditional love. As with all symphonies, Silent Screams is meant to be read together. No movement should stand alone, although it could. Only when the five movements are read as one cohesive whole, does the novella blossom, like Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op.

68). Virginia Woolf said, "For love . has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together that you cannot separate them.".