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    Stories Beyond Belief
    Stories Beyond Belief
    Stories Beyond Belief
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    Stories Beyond Belief

    By Sarah Ruth Scott

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    Sarah has written four stories in this book that deal with the unusual and sometimes the bizarre. These stories explore areas of the imagination that leave the reader thinking about various aspects of mental health and questions whether or not certain things are real or imaginary. In the first story Understanding Jodie the author questions the moral ethics of a teenage girl. The second story Living with Faith is about an angel learning to protect others living as a mortal. The third story is Alisons lifelong diary questioning her poor lifestyle following her death, only to experience her life again with radical changes. Finally the most bizarre of all stories The secret life Helen Harris about a woman who wants to change her life and is helped but with drastic consequences.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse UK
    Release dateOct 9, 2013
    ISBN9781491875322
    Stories Beyond Belief
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    Sarah Ruth Scott

    Sarah has written four stories in this book that deal with the unusual and sometimes the bizarre. These stories explore areas of the imagination that leave the reader thinking about various aspects of mental health and questions whether or not certain things are real or imaginary. In the first story ‘Understanding Jodie’ the author questions the moral ethics of a teenage girl. The second story ‘Living with Faith’ is about an angel learning to protect others living as a mortal. The third story is Alison’s lifelong diary questioning her poor lifestyle following her death, only to experience her life again with radical changes. Finally the most bizarre of all stories ‘The secret life Helen Harris’ about a woman who wants to change her life and is helped but with drastic consequences.

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      Stories Beyond Belief - Sarah Ruth Scott

      STORIES BEYOND BELIEF

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      SARAH RUTH SCOTT

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      AuthorHouse™ UK Ltd.

      1663 Liberty Drive

      Bloomington, IN 47403 USA

      www.authorhouse.co.uk

      Phone: 0800.197.4150

      © 2013 by Sarah Ruth Scott. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 08/13/2013

      ISBN: 978-1-4918-7532-2 (e)

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      CONTENTS

      UNDERSTANDING JODIE INTRODUCTION

      LIVING WITH FAITH

      ALISON’S LIFE LONG DIARY

      THE SECRET LIFE OF HELEN HARRIS

      Thank you to all the people involved in this book including artist Stephen Sutton, Kayleigh Elizabeth May Moore who is the Faith on the front cover of the book. Thank you to my advisor Jennifer May Sutton and to all those who support me in my efforts

      And special thanks to the ‘Jodie Brown’ who is not like JODIE just inspired me with the name.

      UNDERSTANDING JODIE 

      INTRODUCTION

      T his is the story about a girl called Jodie Brown told in her own words, Jodie was like any other teenage girl except she suffered from a common learning disability known as dyslexia. Most people would associate this problem as not being able to read and write properly. However the problem does not end there, other contributing factors add to the misery of not understanding words. I refer to short-term memory problems and poor concentration, which lead to frustration and behavioural problems.

      But Jodie not only had this problem to contend with but the fact that due to her change in hormones and the usual stages of changing from girl to womanhood, she was also confused over her gender. She found herself desiring women and being attracted to her own female teacher. Jodie was confused by her teenage life and no one else fully understood Jodie, she was a misfit and felt alone.

      Jodie lived in a nice house with her parents and two brothers, Tom aged sixteen and Gary aged ten. Jodie was thirteen at this time and considered to be more mature than Tom in some ways. But as Jodie began to develop she thought back to the awful schooling that she had being bullied and began to rebel. She joined self-defence classes and became exceptionally good at kickboxing, however although she was good she never used it against anyone else. She was at school until she reached sixteen, then left and got a job in the retail trade.

      But this was just the beginning of Jodie’s rebellious teenage years, a Halloween party at school led to Jodie becoming a Goth and joining a rather savoury bunch of hooligans led by a man called by his friends Snake. Her time with this gang led her into all kinds of trouble until she finally found herself in prison experiencing an even rougher existence.

      INDEX

      1.   SCHOOL BULLYING

      2.   REACHING PUBERTY

      3.   SELF DISCOVERY

      4.   OH TO BE A GOTH

      5.   TRAGEDY

      6.   TIME OUT

      7.   COMING BACK HOME

      8.   INFLUENTIAL SONGS

      SCHOOL BULLYING

      I t was just another winter’s morning, as a blanket of snow lay thick on the ground. I suppose that I would be regarded as a typical thirteen-year-old girl wearing my school uniform with pride and carrying my school bag on my back. I suppose you would consider me pretty with my tanned skin, perfect teeth and large hazel eyes. I am slim and conscious of my weight never eating at regular times with a highly active lifestyle that burns my metabolism like a girl on fire. I always put my hair into a pony tail, I suppose the colour is alright two tone brown, but no doubt when I am older I could be a blonde like my mother.

      My parents, well what can I say we live in a nice house, both my parents work so we look after ourselves most of the time. My younger brother Gary needs watching though, he is so naughty at times. My older brother Tom who is sixteen takes care of us both and walks Gary to school. I am old enough to make my own way to school, although the bullies are always there to ruin my day. I wonder what it will be today stealing my clothes from the changing room, flicking a towel at my Derry air or ruining my artwork. Maybe their simple minds will conjure up a new way of making my life a misery.

      On my way to school I enjoy walking down the avenue, I walk through an avenue of trees and gaze up at the long thin branches imagining I am in some enchanted Forrest in a fantasy world. I can admire the snow on the trees and feel the breeze blowing gently on my face. It is blowing a spray of snow down like flower being sieved onto a table; I wish I had my paints right now so that I could paint this picture. Art is my favourite subject I spend so much time in that classroom, I feel that I can escape from life in my pictures. I can create my own fantasy and dictate who does what and be a heroine with admirers all around me.

      As I left the avenue I continued to walk to school my dreams were suddenly shattered by the impact of a snowball to my head, then another to my back. The school bullies throwing snowballs at me one after the other surrounded me. I let out a scream that must have sounded worse than any horror movie; it was that loud penetrating the school building, it was almost blood curdling. O.K not that bad but enough to fetch the teachers out and stop the bullies in their tracks.

      Right Johnson, Dawson and Julie inside now came the booming voice of Mr Gilbert the maths teacher.

      He was enough to scare anyone with his tall and broad physique, he was an ex boxer and one teacher that you would never answer back. He watches each of them go inside and gave them a look of disgust for being bullies.

      Then he looked at me a girl that was wet and shivering with cold, suddenly his facial expression changed from annoyance to sympathy as he spoke to me in a gentle

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