From God's Lips To The Devil's Ear by Damien M Shindelman

Author:Damien M Shindelman [Shindelman, Damien M]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781468524161
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2012-01-05T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Job Ravensong

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TO HIS CREDIT, ALL of Abraham’s plans were proceeding exceedingly well. His assemblage of bishops was now following his orders blindly, and due to his business acumen, vast sums of money were pouring into the church coffers. While most all the Church’s hierarchy lauded Abraham for his financial expertise and devotion to the faith, there was one man who knew that Abraham’s outwardly altruistic motives were entirely suspect.

His name was Job Ravensong, and never in the history of the Mormon Church had there been a more despicable and loathsome creature placed in a position of great power. Job was Abraham’s right-hand man, and his spurning of mankind more than equaled Abraham’s lust for complete control.

Job had been the unwanted spawn of a prostitute and a highly intoxicated ex-convict of Apache heritage, and Ravensong’s surname had been an ever-tormenting reminder of the ill-fated coupling.

He had spent his formative years being raised by his whorish mother within the squalid confines of her cathouse, buried deeply within the seamy, odiferous bowels of the Deep South. After watching the grimy toddler wallowing in the swill of his mother’s one-room shanty, the madam of the brothel laughing commented that he looked like a filthy little grub, and the well-deserved nickname had stuck ever after.

Job’s mother had joined the Mormon Church, hoping to somehow hide her son’s contemptible and illegitimate heritage. Unfortunately, her misguided ruse had been pointless, since most of the small town’s male population was visiting the house of ill repute on a regular basis.

To his constant dismay, little Grub Ravensong was branded a certified bastard, and the entire community was well aware of that fact. Whenever he dared to venture outside the protective walls of the brothel, he was jeered at and unmercifully ridiculed by the townsfolk.

Job had always been highly self-conscious of his diseased family tree. He labored tirelessly to try to erase the reprehensible record of his abhorrent upbringing, using his uncanny knack for deceitfulness to try to rewrite his own shame-filled past.

By the time he was an adult, he had mastered the art of disloyalty and vengeance, and used his dubious talents to destroy the reputations of anyone who got in his way. If his over-inflated self-importance was ever challenged, Job used his well-honed skills of character assassination to dismiss his critics, or his pseudo-intellectual diatribe to defame all of his detractors.

Unfortunately, as he slithered his way up life’s ladder, Ravensong could never forget his sordid past, and his inerasable feelings of self-doubt and unworthiness haunted him endlessly.

Unsuccessfully trying to hide his thick southern drawl, Job would trip and stutter on his words. Even more embarrassing, his high-pitched, extremely effeminate voice cracked and quaked with uncertainty. He was persistently infuriated by his emasculated voice and backwoods affectations, and he spent countless nights working on his speaking voice, to try to man-up his girlish, southern twang.

To his consternation, he was unable to erase his unwanted rural mannerisms, and his unrelenting self-loathing chewed at his psyche, manifesting itself in a myriad of self-destructive physical and neurotic tendencies.

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