Faith and the Good Thing
Chapter 1
It is time to tell you of Faith and the Good Thing. People tell her tale in many ways -- conjure men and old gimped grandmothers whisper it to make you smile -- but always Faith Cross is a beauty, a brown-sugared soul sister seeking the Good Thing in the dark days when the Good Thing was lost or, if the bog-dwelling Swamp Woman did not lie, was hidden by the gods to torment mankind for sins long forgotten.
Listen.
The Devil was beating his wife on the day Faith's mother, Lavidia, died her second death. The first, an hour-long beating of bedsheets pierced by grating breaths, had been the day before, but a country doctor, Leon Lynch, came to the farmhouse where they lived and massaged Lavidia's heart. She returned from wherever it was she had been, both her legs pumping beneath the covers, her white eyes wid ... read full excerpt from Faith and the Good Thing ebook
