Crimson Eve (36 page)
Cast a Road
Before Me
Brandilyn Collins
A course-changing event in one’s life
can happen in minutes. Or it can form
slowly, a primitive webbing splaying
into fingers of discontent, a minuscule
trail hardening into the sinewed spine
of resentment. So it was with the mill workers as the heat-soaked
days of summer marched on.
City girl Jessie, orphaned at sixteen, struggles to adjust to life with her barely known aunt and uncle in the tiny town of Bradleyville, Kentucky. Eight years later (1968), she plans on leaving — to follow in her revered mother’s footsteps of serving the homeless. But the peaceful town she’s come to love is about to be tragically shattered. Threats of a labor strike rumble through the streets, and Jessie’s new love and her uncle are swept into the maelstrom. Caught between the pacifist teachings of her mother and these two men, Jessie desperately tries to deny that Bradleyville is rolling toward violence and destruction.
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Color the
Sidewalk for Me
Brandilyn Collins
As a chalk-fingered child, I had worn
my craving for Mama’s love on my
sleeve. But as I grew, that craving
became cloaked in excuses and denial
until slowly it sank beneath my skin to
lie unheeded but vital, like the sinews of my framework. By
the time I was a teenager, I thought the gap between Mama
and me could not be wider.
And then Danny came along. . . .
A splendidly colored sidewalk. Six-year-old Celia presented the gift to her mother with pride — and received only anger in return. Why couldn’t Mama love her? Years later, when once-in-a-lifetime love found Celia, her mother opposed it. The crushing losses that followed drove Celia, guilt-ridden and grieving, from her Bradleyville home.
Now thirty-five, she must return to nurse her father after a stroke. But the deepest need for healing lies in the rift between mother and daughter. God can perform such a miracle. But first Celia and Mama must let go of the past — before it destroys them both.
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Capture the Wind
for Me
Brandilyn Collins
One thing I have learned. The bonfires
of change start with the merest
spark. Sometimes we see that flicker.
Sometimes we blink in surprise at the
flame only after it has marched hot
legs upward to fully ignite. Either way, flicker or flame, we’d
better do some serious praying. When God’s on the move in
our lives, He tends to burn up things we’d just as soon keep.
After her mama’s death, sixteen-year-old Jackie Delham is left to run the household for her daddy and two younger siblings. When Katherine King breezes into town and tries to steal her daddy’s heart, Jackie knows she must put a stop to it. Katherine can’t be trusted. Besides, one romance in the family is enough, and Jackie is about to fall headlong into her own.
As love whirls through both generations, the Delhams are buffeted by hope, elation, and loss. Jackie is devastated to learn of old secrets in her parents’ relationship. Will those past mistakes cost Jackie her own love? And how will her family ever survive if Katherine jilts her daddy and leaves them in mourning once more?
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