New Short Story Just Released on Amazon!
Trestle Press award winning author R.W. Doyen crafts a tale that will mesmerize you. The story begins with a difficult birth during a vicious thunderstorm and goes nonstop from there. What is wrong with the cute little girl in pigtails?
Read Green Eyes and find out what horrifying things happen when she is around and the consequences for those that chose to be near her.
R.W. Doyen is proud to announce that his short story is now available on the Amazon Kindle Bookstore and can be downloaded immediately for 99 cents!
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A Father's Anguish - On Sale Now!
R.W. Doyen is an author, a business owner, an every man’s man, but above all else, he is a father and husband. Life’s everyday, tedious routines and small issues often get in the way of what’s important, family. If anyone can attest to this, Doyen can. He experienced the ultimate horror any father can ever face, his daughter came home to tell him that she was brutally attacked and raped.
Years later, after the pain had lessened and the fear began to slightly subside, R.W. Doyen decided to write about the family tragedy. What has transpired is a fictional representation based on true events of what a father feels after his daughter has been a victim of sexual assault. It is a story of fear, vengeance, law and hope. It is a story of what a family goes through when the most precious gift and blessing of a father and mother, a child, is assaulted and raped. It is a story of A Father’s Anguish.
R.W. Doyen graduated from the University of Maine and then from the Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine in Philadelphia. For twenty-four years, he practiced podiatry in Towanda, Pennsylvania. He relocated to North Carolina, founded a sea wall construction company, and began to write about this devastating episode in his life.
Below is an excerpt from “A Father’s Anguish”…
John Stratton’s twenty-year-old daughter came home, face bruised and swollen, after having been raped. The rapist had knocked her unconscious, took her to his house and repeatedly assaulted her. While she was still only semiconscious, he drove her back to where he had grabbed her and dumped her on the ground. He simply drove away. She was two hours away at college but managed to get to her car and drive home.
Her abuse devastated her father more than can possibly be imagined. The police were never notified. After months of physical and psychiatric therapy, she recovered but John did not. He was haunted by his anguish.
Sleepless nights and tortured days drove him nearly insane. His daughter remembered something about the exterior of the house and so for weeks John crossed and recrossed the residential neighborhoods of this small city until he found the house.
#1 by Martha Stevens-David on December 26, 2009 - 7:42 am
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Dear Mr. Doyen, It was with great interest that I read about you and your family in this morning’s Lewiston Sun Journal and the horiffic crime against your daughter. I hope and pray that all of you are well and that she has recovered as much as possible from this terrible incident.
I think that it is very courageous of you to have vented your anger into a manuscript that will help others who have experienced such a terrible thing. I have only one grandchild but, God Forbid, this should happen to her, I would absolutely want to kill, maim or torture anyone who might harm her. I doubt that I would be as forgiving as you.
That said, I wanted to contact you to ask you how to publish using “iUniverse Press?” How much money did it cost for you to publish your book? I have been writing since 1982 and now have about 100 short stories about life in a small Maine town, 12 children’s stories and poetry. Every one of my submissions has been published and I am the most featured writer on the official Maine website of http://www.maine.gov. My problem is that everyone wants to publish my work and nobody wants to pay me. How do I go about doing what you have done using the same methods you did? I would appreciate any help/guidance you could give me. My work can also be found on the on-line newspaper http://www.magic city morning star news, out of Millinocket, Bates College E-Zine on-line magazine and I one of my poems “Chronology of Aging” has just been published in the “Goose River Anthology” here in Maine.
Once again, I;m sorry that your family had to go through such a heartbreaking experience.
Sincerely, Martha Stevens-David, 2 Mountain View Drive, Minot, Maine 04258 (207-966-3905)
#2 by Martha Stevens-David on December 26, 2009 - 7:44 am
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Thank you for giving me this opportunity to read your work. Martha
#3 by Jean (Bukoveckas) Ahearn on December 28, 2009 - 8:27 am
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I went to school with your sister Dawn. Please tell her hello for me and if you want to, you can share my email address with her. I now live in Lakeland, Florida with my husband Roland (Rolly). Perhaps you remember him.
We moved here in 1971 and have three great grown children and 5 grandchildren of various ages and just found out on Christmas that we will be adding one more to the family.
I intend to get your book when we get back from our Ga vacation with two of kids & their families.
#4 by Gerrie Arsenault Warren on December 28, 2009 - 10:14 am
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Am about to order your book. Being a graduate of Mexico High “60 was like reuniting with family.. also, having lived my life, until adulthood, on Roxbury Rd.. we did grow up in a wonderful little town. Good luck with sales and will keep myself updated on future writings.
#5 by Fay Virgin Hutchinson on January 1, 2010 - 2:54 pm
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I am in the midst of reading your book which I purchased at the book signing. I didn’t want to start it until after Christmas as I was concerned with interruptions and pretty much wanted to read it through without them. You bring so much of who you are into it. Very well done and what a way to get through that awful time for you all. Looking forward to your next book.
#6 by Ken Griffin on January 5, 2010 - 7:26 am
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Hi Dr. Doyen!!
Not sure if you remember me, but you worked on my feet from the time I was an infant up through my teenage years at your Towanda office. I was up in Canton at my parents (Bev and Gary Griffin) over Christmas and my mom had your book. She had finished it already because she couldn’t put it down. I plan on reading it as it sounds great. I’m so sorry to hear about what happened to your daughter. I have a 16 month old daughter and it frightens me to even think of anything like that happening to her. I hope all is well with you and your family. It sounds as if you’re very successful in North Carolina. Drop me a line or you can look me up on facebook too. My family and I would love to hear from you.
Ken Griffin
#7 by Tammy Potter (Green) on January 15, 2010 - 7:39 pm
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Dr. doyen, one of my sisters just brought this to my attention tonight….and I can’t say that I have never felt this same fear…from the inside out! I am the oldest of the Green sisters…a family that was quite close to Stacey for many years…and to be apart this long, and not know was so heartbreaking to read! We loved her like one of our own sisters, and support you in your efforts to rectify her as a person and bring forth how unnatural this feeling is to be assaulted through and through, and still not have clarity in the end! Our hearts and love are with you, and pray that God can console your overwhelming urges to not forgive your precious daughters rapist. it’s not easy, but by the grace of god it is the right thing to do; thus bringing about the righteousness of God in HIS TIME….not ours! Amen, Dear DR. Doyen…give your daughter a much needed hug and years of tears, turned smiled…from the ‘Green girls’…and God bless you for your efforts to help other families just like yours!
Loving thoughts from WI
Tammy (Green) Potter
#8 by Janice Doyen Roy on January 16, 2010 - 2:08 pm
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Hi Cousin, I am one of Dana’s daughters, Janice. It has been years since we’ve seen one another. I live in Florida but still subscripte to the hometown Rumford Times and saw that you were having a book signing there. I could not be go but my son bought me your book for Christmas. Both my husband and I have read your book and thought it was extrememly well written and very interesting. So sorry to hear that this happened to your daughter. My husband says he would have felt the same since we have two daughters. We have relatives in North Carolina and know that you have chosen a beautiful state to live in. I wish you much success with your book and hope we can get to see one another some day. Take care and God bless. Janice
#9 by Janice Doyen Roy on January 16, 2010 - 2:13 pm
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#10 by Irene Wright on January 20, 2010 - 8:05 am
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Hey Dr. Doyen,
Remember me?? I worked for you for the last year before you retired at the ripe old age of “50″. I saw in the Daily Review that you will be at the Riverstone on Sat. I am looking forward to buying your book and gettig you to sign it. Can’t believe it about Stacey. I can still remember making her wedding cake. Will see you on Sat. Have something for you.
Irene Wright
#11 by Cathy Grahe on February 26, 2010 - 11:34 am
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Dr. Doyen;
My sister Ellen Coleman lives on the Island with you and purchased this book for a present. I was enthralled with your book. I am sorry the circumstances warranted the story but you did a fabulous job making the person feel they were right there with you feeling your pain, and wanting to get the bad guy just as much. It was a great read and if ever you do another book, let me know and I will be first in line to purchase it.
Thank you again for a loving story & god bless your family.
#12 by terry solomon on March 18, 2010 - 7:42 am
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thank you so much for the oportunity to read such a good book. thank you also for signing my copy. it was nice of you to take the time, my friend barb carney talks highly of you.
i’m waiting for your next one. i have not had such a good read in along time.
thank you again
terry
#13 by Francie Harrill on April 10, 2010 - 5:25 am
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My two friends and I met Mr. Doyen recently on a cruise ship. He told us about his story, and we were so impressed that we had to read it. We have all read it now. All of us couldn’t put the book down! It is a well written and riveting story! It’s hard to believe that it’s a first book. He told us about his next book, and we can’t wait for it to come out. We wish Mr. Doyen and his family all the best.
Sincerely, Francie Harrill