Thread of Deceit by Catherine Palmer

Author:Catherine Palmer [Palmer, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Christian Fiction, Mystery, Suspense
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 2008-07-27T04:00:00+00:00

I see him coming from a distance, the man with the blue eyes. I know this is not the good time now. This is the time of evil. Fear rises from its slumbering place in my stomach and steps into my heart. There it begins to hit my chest with its fists, pounding hard, as though it wants to crack open my ribs. When fear has filled my chest to the point of breaking, it forms a ball and crawls up into my throat. There it sits, laughing at me and trying to choke me. I swallow and swallow as the man comes closer, but fear grows larger in my throat, and it dries my tongue and glues it to the roof of my mouth.

“Come,” the man says, the goodbad man, the lovehate man. I look up at the lightbulb, which is my hiding place. It is where I am safe, where I can find the sunshine again. But the man takes my arm and pulls me away from the lightbulb, from my safety.

I follow him, and fear slides down into the very bottom of my stomach. There it rolls and turns, doing its dance, first this way and then the other. My hips ache, and my intestines twist into knots, and my legs go weak from the dance of fear.

The man takes me into the room, and that is when I see her. The girl who looks like me. Her brown eyes blink. Her black hair shines. Her mouth sits tightly on her face like a small pink rosebud that has not opened.

Is this girl me? Am I seeing myself or someone else? Who is this child? Why is she here? Where has she come from?

The rose of her mouth does not open, and I stare at her. She knows nothing. She is like me, but she is not me, for I know everything. I know it all. I am filled to the brim with knowledge. She is empty. Empty of the evil and the pain. And she has not yet met fear.

The man walks across the room to her, and I see how it will be. I look at this girl with the rosebud mouth and the brown eyes. Then I stare up into the light. Fear quiets inside me. Fear knows my power over it. Fear understands that God has given me the light. And soon it must go back to its hiding place.

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