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    Hummingbird Wars
    Hummingbird Wars
    Hummingbird Wars
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    Hummingbird Wars

    By Regina Russell

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    Hummingbird Wars is a novelette--seven chapters long--that will grab you by the heart and not let go until the last fulfilling paragraph.
    Learn and grow with characters like Frank Tacket, a man who suffers through the heartbreak of realizing he no longer has the trust of people he respects and Maggie Ferris, a woman who realizes pride and stubbornness has led her further from God's will.
    Hummingbird Wars will knead the hard places in the reader's heart as it identifies some of the struggles caused in a man's soul by the hypocrisy he witnessed as a child.
    You will think about this book long after you have finished reading it and you will remember the story every time you see a hummingbird.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRegina Russell
    Release dateNov 3, 2011
    ISBN9781465931979
    Hummingbird Wars
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    Regina Russell

    Christian wife and mother of five, Regina Russell is a novelist, songwriter, poet, musician, motorcyclist and cat lover. She lives in London, Kentucky with her husband Jim where they enjoy working together in the jail ministry. Regina is passionate about serving God, loves to go to church, watch cooking shows and read books by Jane Austen. She studied creative writing at Eastern Kentucky University and has published four novels and one novelette and several small books of short stories.

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      Hummingbird Wars - Regina Russell

      Hummingbird Wars

      By: Regina Russell

      Copyright 2011 Regina Russell

      Smashwords Edition

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and actions are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and any resemblance to anyone living or dead, businesses, events or location is entirely coincidental.

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      For Brother Ivan, Mary Ann and your sweet family. I will miss you.

      Hummingbird Wars

      Chapter 1

      Maggie Ferris enjoyed watching hummingbirds. She had a red feeder for them hanging on a hook suspended from the roof of her front porch. For more years than she cared to remember Maggie had sat in her cushioned chair on bright summer mornings and watched the birds compete for the sugar water nectar she supplied.

      The first appearance of the hummingbirds was a sign to Maggie the harsh weather of winter was over for good. She knew the birds usually came in late April when it was still chilly most mornings so every spring she made sure to have the feeder clean, filled and waiting.

      Sometimes she recognized the birds from year to year and had come to know a bit about their personalities. She had learned some hummingbirds were more aggressive than others and would fight for their territory. At first she had wondered how one hummingbird could threaten another. They all looked too tiny to cause any harm.

      But it didn't take many summer mornings for Maggie to ascertain that hummingbirds could indeed fight. She had even heard their wings brush against each other as one would swoop down to attack their sugar-water stealing foe.

      It was June and Maggie was sitting in her favorite chair watching a hummingbird perched on the red feeder as it drank though its long, delicate-looking, thin beak. The feeder was just a plastic cylinder. (In the past, she added red food coloring to the mixture but had read that the additive may cause cancer in hummingbirds so she only used four parts water to one part sugar now when the feeder needed filling.) The clear liquid wasn't as pretty but the hummingbirds didn't seem to mind. At the bottom of the feeder there was a red platform that went around the entire circumference of it so the small, winged creatures could place their long bills down into the little wells of nectar while sitting.

      Maggie knew it was important to let the little birds rest a second while they partook of the homemade nectar. She had read hummingbirds used up vast amounts of energy that had to be resupplied constantly. That was why the feeder was such an attraction.

      The phone rang and Maggie rose from her chair slowly, more aware of the arthritis in her knees every year. I knew I should have brought the phone outside with me, she grumbled to herself as she opened the screen door and stepped inside. She wondered if it was Bill. He was her only child and he had not called her this week.

      It was not Bill, though. It was her younger sister, Florida, who lived in Lexington about an hour and half away. Besides her sister, Maggie had two brothers who she only saw a few times a year. The four siblings were all in their sixties and they had been a strong and sturdy bunch who didn't get sick often so her sister's present condition of health had worried her considerably.

      She and her sister, Florida, (named for the vacation her family was on when she was conceived) were very close. Both were widowed and had been so for several years. Much of their conversations were spent arguing about which one of them should pack her things up and move in with the other. They figured that time and the natural decaying of the flesh would eventually weigh in on the matter but both women were stubbornly happy living where they were.

      Florida was the president of the Homemakers in her district and she enjoyed babysitting her two grandchildren who only lived a mile away from her. Being able to watch her young grandchildren grow up made for a powerful argument. But Maggie was the pianist at her church and worked in the Senior Citizen's Clinic as a recreational therapist. The job was extremely important to her. Not only did it keep her fit but she received much satisfaction from still being able to support herself after Charlie's death and help others at the same time. If it weren't for the pain in her knees, she had thought often, she would feel as young as she did in her forties.

      But her sister, Florida had been having some female problems (as Maggie had related to the women's Sunday school class at church during prayer request time the week before) and was scheduled to have surgery in five days. Neither sister had ever needed surgery before and Maggie knew Florida was especially nervous. She was going to have a partial hysterectomy and Maggie was planning to go to Lexington and stay with her for at least two weeks. The doctor had said Florida should be on her feet and getting along

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