By Vicki Lane
A evening of reckoning . . .
A sunrise of probability . . .
In the misty folds of Appalachia, the lady they name Least grows up cursed through her mother’s cruelty and blessed via her overlook. Deemed not worthy to hitch the surface global, Least turns to the knowledge of the land, to voices she on my own can listen, to legends left through local Indians, and to the humanities of divination and therapeutic. however the time comes whilst Least has to choose from a doting suitor and her formative years magic, among his church and her spirits. Now, as her existence enters its ultimate bankruptcy, her international has been invaded by way of a violent felony with a chilling plan. to prevent him from committing an unspeakable crime—and to unfastened an blameless child—the lady who was Least needs to holiday long-held supplies, draw on long-buried powers, and face a darkness nobody else may see.
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Well now, John Goingsnake, he stood there in the middle of that broad river, wondering what to do. He could see rocks like stepping-stones to the other side but betwixt him and the next rock there was a stretch of deep rushing water. He studied the distance and knew it was too far to make a leap for. ‘No telling,’ thinks he, ‘how deep the water is here in the middle where it runs all the year. Strong as it’s running through this narrow channel, I fear was I to try to cross, the child and me could be swept away.
I ask her and she tells me it is a big old book with God’s words wrote down in it. “Well,” says I, “there is several books on a high shelf in Mama’s room where she keeps the extry lamps but don’t no one ever touch them. ” Lilah studies on it some and decides we can get along without a Bible. So we go to the deep place in the creek and I start to take off my nice dress which she ain’t said nothing about, she has been so busy saving me. She sees me start to undo my buttons and draws up her mouth.
Lilah Bel is talking slow and whispery and making her eyes big. There is goose bumps coming on my arm and my mouth has gone all dry. ” I sit up and swallow hard. I want to stop her from telling the rest but I can’t make myself say nothing for the lights and the sounds are coming on fast. Lilah Bel has the apple in one hand and the hatpin in the other and the lights are sparking off the cruel sharp hatpin as it comes down at the baby’s little head and the hatpin is going in and in and in and the mama is laughing and crying at the same time and the humming and the little drums and the lines of light are everywhere and The cold water is in my face and some gets up my nose.