In her short stories Cecilia Haupt focuses on the older woman who discovers mature love late in life.

Escaping from the ordinary her heroines travel to Venice, Rome, Florence, and Paris. Their lives are colored by the author’s observations, recalled events and experiences in her own travels. Settings are authentic so create the perfect background. A drama also unfolds in Pasadena, CA. While the city is preparing for its Rose Parade.

Based on her psychological studies of forty years as a retired interviewer in this arena. The reader is exposed in depth to her characters’ conflicts and resolutions. Haupt also writes of pure fantasy as well as one of psychology’s mysteries. Religious themes are treated with comprehensive understanding and humor.

Cecilia Haupt, widowed, mid-eighties, is the mother of six children, a graduate of Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA. Her poetry and short stories have been published world-wide. She began her career early in childhood.

The older woman, often a fallow field, is unprepared to be sown with late in life love. Whether she travels to the European sector or remains in her own city the reader can indulge herself in romance. By following the heroines into new adventurous worlds, she finds freedom to enjoy love in Rome, Venice, Paris, Provence or Pasadena.

These stories in Chiseled Frescoes are authored by a widow in her eighties. Places and events are for the most part true experiences. Love, however, remains the mysterious element which binds circumstances  together.  Written from the author’s personal life or a re-birth during the middle years, it is the reader who decides. Out of unblemished stone we chisel our lives, frescoes which tell our story.

The book was written for the older woman, her hopes, her emotions yet not extinguished by age or circumstances, based on the idea ‘it is never too late’. Each denouement  is unique as Life plays out the relationships.

Inspired by personal memories of places traveled and persons met, the stories become a storehouse of  recollections. These tales are not for teenagers, but the adult reader.