Worthy Serial

Abigail Worthy is a character I developed for my play, Another Mother, which had its world premiere performance at The Essential Theatre Festival in Atlanta, GA, August 2017. The story serialized here covers roughly five years in her life, starting with her going to college in Portland, Oregon and ending with her acceptance into medical school in Atlanta, Georgia and slightly beyond.

Most of these segments were written within 24-hours of being posted between May and July of 2016. They are rough outlines of the story as it existed in my head at that time. Much of the story has evolved as a result of work I did getting Another Mother ready for production, and other developments, such as publication of the story collection Atlanta Stories: Fables of the New South, and the novel Rebecca, Too, in 2017 and 2018 respectively. The finished product will incorporate the larger story of Abigail, her mother Rhiannon and aunts, Regan and Rosalind, and her cousin Genevieve Duchard. Since posting these, the “expanded universe” which encompasses fictional Atlanta I’ve developed has expanded considerably.

The final piece, Worthy 51, was written after the play and represents the new direction I’m moving with the story.

1. Abigail & Rhiannon
2. Rhiannon’s Family
3. The Worthys Drop in on Elspeth
4. Rhiannon Learns She’s Pregnant
5. Rhiannon & Abigail Meet with Elspeth
6. Abigail Encounters Neil at School
7. Neil’s Band
8. Abigail Tells Neil How They’re Connected
9. Abigail Meets Her Father
10. Daniel Confronts Abigail & Neil
11. Road Trip to Visit Jillian
12. Abigail Meets Jillian
13. Visit with Jillian Concludes
14. Jillian Phones Abigail
15. Rhiannon & Genevieve Meet Neil
16. Abigail & Jillian Hang Out
17. Jillian Coaches Abigail and Abigail Gets Some Bad News
18. Rhiannon in the hospital.
19. Rhiannon wakes up
20. Abigail & Rhiannon with the band
21. Abigail goes on a date
22. Rhiannon decides to return home
23. Abigail prepares to graduate
24. Abigail and Lauren discuss their relationship
25. Abigail graduates
26. Abigail’s DNA Study
27. Abigail Phones Her Cousin Barbara
28. Rosalind talks to Abigail about Genevieve
29. Rosalind dies
30. Abigail gets Genevieve’s DNA results
31. Abigail confronts Rhiannon
32. Abigail and Genevieve review her DNA results
33. Genevieve graduates
34. Abigail & Genevieve arrive in Atlanta
35. Abigail & Genevieve get settled in Atlanta
36. Genevieve meets her biological mother
37. The cousins regroup after a tense encounter
38. Abigail meets her older brother
39. Leah and Alyssa make Abigail an offer
40. Abigail makes an important decision about her future
41. Abigail moves to Atlanta
42. Abigail and Genevieve run into a friend from Seattle
43. Alyssa goes into labor at a band show
44. Abigail meets with a recruiter to find a job
45. Abigail worries about Genevieve’s reaction to her employer
46. Abigail’s new job
47. Abigail meets someone
48. Gloria meets the band
49. Abigail helps Steven with a project
50. Abigail prepares for medical school
51. The Phone Call

Characters:

Abigail Worthy, 18 at the start of the story, a biology (pre-med) student from Seattle, WA.

Rhiannon Worthy, 44 at the start of the story, Abigail’s mother.

Genevieve Duchard, 16 when she joins the story, Abigail’s cousin.

Neil Hawkins, 18 at the start of the story, Abigail’s half-brother.

Other characters include Daniel Hawkins, a neurosurgeon and Neil & Abigail’s father, Elspeth (Armstrong) Hawkins, Neil’s mother, Jillian and Daniel (Winn) Hawkins, Jr. Neil’s siblings, Rosalind Duchard, Abigail’s aunt, Leah Walker and Alyssa Caine, two sisters connected to Genevieve, from Atlanta.

The earliest sections are set in Portland, OR, and Seattle, WA, but as the story goes on, the action will move to Atlanta,GA.

Here’s a mock-up of the cover art.