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    Butterflies Dancing
    Butterflies Dancing
    Butterflies Dancing
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    Butterflies Dancing

    By Rachel Starr Thomson

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    She has always known there were Powers in the world that others could not see or hear. Some of them sang to her in her cradle. Others have hunted her since she was a child.

     

    A cripple from birth, a foster child who grows up tormented and outcast, she knows that she does not belong in this world. When the young man who calls himself Lone Warrior appears, she loves him as she has never loved. And when he disappears, wandering into the wilds of a national park with no intention of ever coming back, she will follow him no matter what doors he steps through.

     

    Even if it means defying all of the Powers in this world and every other.

     

    "Butterflies Dancing" is a short story, originally published in While the Morning Stars Sing, an anthology of spiritually infused speculative fiction from ResAliens Press.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLittle Dozen Press
    Release dateDec 12, 2015
    ISBN9780986597176
    Butterflies Dancing
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    Rachel Starr Thomson

    Rachel Starr Thomson is in love with Jesus and convinced the gospel will change the world. Rachel is a woman of many talents and even more interests: she’s a writer, editor, indie publisher, singer, speaker, Bible study teacher, and world traveler. The author of the Seventh World Trilogy, The Oneness Cycle, and many other books, she also tours North America and other parts of the world as a speaker and spoken-word artist with 1:11 Ministries. Adventures in the Kingdom launched in 2015 as a way to bring together Rachel’s explorations, in fiction and nonfiction, of what it means to live all of life in the kingdom of God. Rachel lives in the beautiful Niagara Region of southern Ontario, just down the river from the Falls. She drinks far too much coffee and tea, daydreams of visiting Florida all winter, and hikes the Bruce Trail when she gets a few minutes. A homeschool graduate from a highly creative and entrepreneurial family, she believes we’d all be much better off if we pitched our television sets out the nearest window. LIFE AND WORK (BRIEFLY) Rachel began writing on scrap paper sometime around grade 1. Her stories revolved around jungle animals and sometimes pirates (they were actual rats . . . she doesn’t remember if the pun was intended). Back then she also illustrated her own work, a habit she left behind with the scrap paper. Rachel’s first novel, a humorous romp called Theodore Pharris Saves the Universe, was written when she was 13, followed within a year by the more serious adventure story Reap the Whirlwind. Around that time, she had a life-changing encounter with God. The next several years were spent getting to know God, developing a new love for the Scriptures, and discovering a passion for ministry through working with a local ministry with international reach, Sommer Haven Ranch International. Although Rachel was raised in a strong Christian home, where discipleship was as much a part of homeschooling as academics, these years were pivotal in making her faith her own. At age 17, Rachel started writing again, this time penning the essays that became Letters to a Samuel Generation and Heart to Heart: Meeting With God in the Lord’s Prayer. In 2001, Rachel returned to fiction, writing what would become her bestselling novel and then a bestselling series–Worlds Unseen, book 1 of The Seventh World Trilogy. A classic fantasy adventure marked by Rachel’s lyrical style, Worlds Unseen encapsulates much of what makes Rachel’s writing unique: fantasy settings with one foot in the real world; adventure stories that explore depths of spiritual truth; and a knack for opening readers’ eyes anew to the beauty of their own world–and of themselves. In 2003, Rachel began freelance editing, a side job that soon blossomed into a full-time career. Four years later, in 2007, she co-founded Soli Deo Gloria Ballet with Carolyn Currey, an arts ministry that in 2015 would be renamed as 1:11 Ministries. To a team of dancers and singers, Rachel brought the power of words, writing and delivering original narrations, spoken-word poetry, and songs for over a dozen productions. The team has ministered coast-to-coast in Canada as well as in the United States and internationally. Rachel began publishing her own work under the auspices of Little Dozen Press in 2007, but it was in 2011, with the e-book revolution in full swing, that writing became a true priority again. Since that time Rachel has published many of her older never-published titles and written two new fiction series, The Oneness Cycle and The Prophet Trilogy. Over 30 of Rachel’s novels, short stories, and nonfiction works are now available in digital editions. Many are available in paperback as well, with more released regularly. The God she fell in love with as a teenager has remained the focus of Rachel’s life, work, and speaking.

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      Butterflies Dancing - Rachel Starr Thomson

      Butterflies Dancing

      by Rachel Starr Thomson

      She raced up the front steps as fast as her crippled leg would allow and burst through the door to find Jamie tapping the kitchen counter with a pen, mumbling under his breath to whatever was playing in his earphones. The screen door banged behind her.

      He looked up, blew his hair out of his eyes, and said, I think the Indian went hiking.

      Her heart nearly stopped, the fear that had chased her all the way home confirmed. Her mind raced back through the scenes of the last few months, images flashing in a frantic slide show, every one knocking the breath from her lungs. The voices of The Others spiked through the images. He won’t stay forever. The Powers always call their own back. He will leave you . . .

      The Indian went hiking. Hiking like the day she and Jamie met him in the state park, crouched in the midst of a ring of burned grass, a young man dressed like a centuries-old plains warrior. Jamie laughed at his clothes and decided he was some kind of historical reenactor. She knew better. She could see in his eyes what he was. He was one who wandered worlds and times, one who served the Powers in their heavenly palaces, one who was always a stranger wherever he went. A wanderer.

      One who mattered more

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