Sophia K. Apple

Forgive to Live Sophia K. Apple

A young girl dies. Four lives converge as doctors blame each other, parents seek revenge, and lawyers want money.


Daughter, Mother, Father, and Doctor provide subjective, alternative, and even contradictory versions of the same incident. Each is unable to assume or predict the others' perspectives, nor their own battles to forgive each other. This compelling story is written to reveal overall inequity of women in contemporary society, spoken honestly and plainly. Instead of recoiling, retreating, or fighting with angry voices demanding justice or violence, we see the underlying spirituality of why forgiveness is needed to live; to decontaminate the poisons in a world of unforgiveness.