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Of all life come
Of all life remain
Of all light shine
On earth’s windowpane
Of all nature blessed
Of all nature one
All that we have been
All that we become
Of all life rise
Of all life give
Most of all sing
Most of all: live
(c) Helen Valentina 2020
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I spoke in the language of the rain
A simple message written wordless
On a cafe’s window pane
As though you may yet pass by
In your hurry to your life
So far from mine
Yet you may linger
From your pace and for but one moment here remain
To see my message
Made of rain
A foolish thing I understand
It was not thought out
Never engineered or cleverly pre-planned
And even if you passed this by
So little likely but yet still
It’s not a thing you’d understand
Or even see my authorship
Or how the message is for you
It’s just a thing that I could do
As I could never say it plain
This loving message
In the language of the rain
(c) Helen Valentina 2020
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The city bright
Illuminates
And in its sight
Our simple fates
Can swift take flight
Or deviate
The city glows
Electric flame
Within it knows
Its secret name
Its secret game
The city cold
Its beating heart
Is young and old
And stands apart
Till all we’re told
Just bought and sold
Just bought and sold
(c). Helen Valentina 2020
Thank you so much for having me on your blog, Helen, and for helping me launch Eternal Road – The final stop. I know you have a lot going on, so I appreciate you taking the time to help with. The launch. Let me describe the book. Eternal Road is the story of two people finding their way through the selection process leading to the place where one will spend eternity. Yes, it is true. They both have passed away. James Wainwright just died in an auto accident. Samantha Tourneau died seventeen years before. Sam is James’s guide to help him decide where to spend eternity. This is not your usual thriller or paranormal romance. It is a piece of fiction that is a combination of inspiration, adventure, time travel, sci-fi, a touch of erotica, and a dash of spiritual. In short, it is a lot of things, but hopefully, a story that will make you happy to have read it.
It is now available on Amazon in paper and Kindle. The Kindle edition is introductory priced at 99¢ until October 15th
Here is the universal link
Kindle Universal link mybook.to/EternalRoad
The blurb.
James Wainwright picks up a hitchhiker and discovers two things 1. The woman he picks up is his childhood sweetheart, only Seventeen years older. 2. He is no longer of this world.
James began a road trip alone in his 1956 Oldsmobile. He stops for a hitchhiker only to discover she is his childhood sweetheart, Sam, who disappeared seventeen years before. James learns from Sam falling asleep miles back caused him to perish in a one-car accident. He also comes to understand that Sam was taken and murdered all those years ago, and now she has come back to help him find his eternal home.
The pair visit a number of times and places and are witness to a number of historical events. The rules dictate that they do no harm to the time continuum. Trying to be careful, they inadvertently come to the attention of Lucifer, who would love to have their souls as his subjects. They also find a threat to human survival and desperately need to put in place the fix necessary to save humankind.
The question becomes, will James find his eternal home in grace or lose the battle with Satan for his immortal soul and the future of human life with it? If you like time-travel, adventure, mystery, justice, and the supernatural, this story is for you.
An Excerpt
By the car, Sam leans down to check on James. She opens the door. “You okay?”
James looks up. “Oh, yes, I was just looking at my cell phone.”
“Why?”
James shrugs. “It pinged, so I thought a text had come in.”
Sam snickers. “You know that’s impossible. We’re not of this world, so how could you receive a text?”
James holds the phone out to her. “Okay, smart one, take a look.”
Sam leans over and then takes the phone from James’s hand. Sure enough, a text notification shows an unknown sender.
James urges, “Go ahead and open it.”
Sam places the device back in James’s hand. “It’s your phone. You open it.”
James rolls his eyes but studies the message. “Want me to read it aloud?”
“Sure, if that makes you feel better.”
“It’s time we met formally. I have much to discuss with you. Text 666 with a time and place.”
Sam puts her hand to her mouth. “666? Is he crazy? That’s the sign of the Devil. Lucifer just messaged you.”
James drops the phone onto the seat. “Oh, man, this gives me the creeps.”
“The creeps? I’ve never heard of the Devil sending texts to potential converts.”
James’s eyes open wide. “You think he sees us as converts?”
“I’m not sure about me, but since he has your number …”
John’s bio
John is an award-winning author who, after an extensive business career, began writing full time in 2012. His specialty is thriller fiction novels, but John also writes poetry and short stories. He has written five other books that are on Amazon in paperback and Kindle editions. The paperback versions are also available in the Indie Lector store
John lives in Lakeway, Texas, with his wife and their spoiled rescue pets.
Contact John
Blog Fiction Favorites, http://johnwhowell.com/
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Twitter –https://www.twitter.com/HowellWave
Goodreads –https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7751796.John_W_Howell
Amazon Author’s page –https://www.amazon.com/author/johnwhowell
John’s other books
The Contract: between heaven and earth
John’s other Books
The Contract: between heaven and earth
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Crystal clear
Pale perfection hides
Structure’s aim
God is here
In this clarity
Speak His name
Perfect pink
Softer blood will flow
Just the same
(c) Helen Valentina 2020
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In this hour
As our foolishness descends
And of our friends
Are only foes
We scarce can comprehend our woes
Then close your wings
Around these sacred things
And weep for us
In this year
When sanity gave way to fear
And all comes clear
This wretched fate
We only understand too late
Please close your wings
And from the seat of heaven sing
And weep for us
(c) Helen Valentina 2020
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Sweet messenger I see
Hovering above
Will you only come to me
Whispering of love?
Whispering of fear
Tumult this deadly year
And eyes that finally see
Finally clear?
Sweet messenger I call
To my side
We tilt towards the fall
Whispering of pride
Whispering the end
Wreaths and sorrow send
Words now of a friend
But just pretend
(c) Helen Valentina 2020
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We are star born
From the very fabric
Of the universe we’re torn
To lose the face of God
So lost, forlorn
Yet beautiful as light
Perfect in All sight
As a star child
From the dust of bursting flames
You fall so wild
Before the face of God
We are beguiled
Yet beautiful as light
Perfect in All sight
(c) Helen Valentina 2020
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Mediate on strength
Strong as the beast
Gentle as the butterfly
Kingdoms must rise
On ideas as light as air
Heavy weighted truth
Fierce as battle cries
Soft as lullabies
May we yet realise
Realise
(c) Helen Valentina 2020
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All the secrets hidden
In the folds of red-hued linen
Eyes denied the spell of light
Across damaged ruins of a life
And he might have even bled
To hear the truths she said
But it’s lost in time instead
Rhapsody in red
Dancing in the darkness
Highlighting bitter starkness
Of the wrongs she can’t make right
No supplications in the night
And once she might have wed
And followed to his bed
But she’s lost in time instead
Rhapsody in red
(c) Helen Valentina 2020
Like most people, I have a number of sides to me. The most interesting one probably emerges through my writing, hence this blog. I love to read, and also to write, and so this is a way to share both.
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