Hi all. I’m hurrying in this morning to share another snippet from Blood Stoned. Tentative release date August 11.
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From Blood Stoned~
My gift kicked in about the time I turned ten, as if it had been waiting for me to grow into it. It wasn’t more than a day after my birthday when my step-daddy carried one of his friends home for Mama to tend.
The poor man had been gut shot and Mama said she couldn’t do a thing.
“Let me, Mama,” I still remember saying. I didn’t know a thing about what I was doing and was scared, sure as sin; but I lost the will to manage my own limbs and walked right up to the bed and laid my hands on that man.
His stomach spit out the bullet, the veins knitted back together, and then the skin closed up real pretty leaving not even so much as a scar. He lived but I wasn’t sure I would.
My skin had stretched tight, bloated with magic, which at the time I didn’t recognize.
When my feet floated above the floor of our cabin, my step-daddy—who was not a religious man—crossed himself, took my arm, pulled me to the door, shoved me outside, and barred the door behind me.
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Loved this piece Gem. Such a matter of fact tone of voice- just highlighted how remarkable an event it was.
No frills. Just chills as I read the simplistic healing scene and then she’s thrown away like garbage. Breathtaking.
I love this snippet — I’m having trouble pinning down why, though. I think I like the straight-forwardness of it — it tells a lot about the narrator.
Wow, okay, this is awesome! Loved the bluntness of it all. We learn so much in so little. This was fantastic, so thank you for sharing!
“He lived but I wasn’t sure I would.” <– love that line! As someone who grew up in Alabama, I enjoyed the word usage here.
That certainly gives everything she does perspective, and how hard it is to live with something extraordinary. Great snippet, Gem. 🙂
Cross yourself and kick out the gifted one.
Par for the course.
Well done!
Wow — wonderful snippet and so well written!! Love this!
Awe, poor Maggie. I feel sorry for her, but you can tell from her tone that she doesn’t. Wonderful job, Gem!
So young to find that she had such a gift. The words were mesmerizing. I want to read more.
Oh excellent, right up till the end when she got shoved out the door! Which of course that was powerful too. Loved the excerpt!
Brilliant … so straight forward … but what about the mother?
He brings a friend home to have the mother do a healing on the man and when the daughter does it, he ‘gets religion’ and kicks the girl out? So very…. believable.
What! She just saved his friend from certain death and he did what? Can I stone him, kick him, burn him….Huh bloody ignorant male!
That’s some powerful stuff right there. The prose really captures the intensity of the scene.
“He lived but I wasn’t sure I would.” LOVE that line! Interesting snippet! Though the part about the step daddy shoving her out and barring the door made my blood boil. Let me at him! Let me at him!