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Read MoreThanks & Acknowledgments
That one took a lot longer than I expected.
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Epilogue: The Patients of a Saint
“You want me to go in with you?”
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Chapter XI. Epithalamion
It was late afternoon when Devin arrived at Laurel Oak…
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Chapter X. Lamar Alone
Lamar did not answer Devin’s calls or texts the week that followed the art walk…
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Chapter IX. A Scent from Beyond the World
On third Fridays every other month, the city’s French Quarter galleries opened doors to anyone strolling in off the streets…
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Chapter VIII. Rivers Meet
She didn’t tell Lamar what she had actually seen in the woods till later that evening, in his studio…
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Behind the Mask:
An Enneagram Analysis of the Star Wars Saga
Like Vader, we all hide behind masks that protect us from the harsh, sometimes toxic outer world; and as with Vader, healing means learning to remove the mask, to return to and reveal our truest selves.
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Chapter VII. The Rescue Dog
“If we’re going to do this,” Lamar said, “the best way is by water…”
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Chapter VI. Seafoam
Ron Holbrooke was strangling her…
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Chapter V. Maybank
Dark eyes, half-hid by the glare on his wire-frame glasses, and a bristly white mustache…
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Chapter IV. Haint Blue
“I don’t know how you can drink that in this heat,” Devin mused…
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Chapter III. Shadow Box
Lamar’s Rio slid into the lot of a dive on the edge of town, some three or four miles up Sixty-one…
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Chapter II. Not a Ghost, But an Echo
The stranger thrust them on in short strokes, stabbing the creek with his paddle like a heron spearing fish…
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Chapter I. A Salt-Edged Blade
It was nearing five o’clock and the breeze, muted here beneath the pines, carried the smell of the marsh…
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