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    The Bullied and the Raven Ii: Epitaph
    The Bullied and the Raven Ii: Epitaph
    The Bullied and the Raven Ii: Epitaph
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    The Bullied and the Raven Ii: Epitaph

    By Jamie Emery

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    All poetry and writing have been completely done by Jamie Emery.
    Read this slow, catch the feelings that are presented in this novel.
    Understand that the act of bullying can be stopped, and sometimes, just sometimes, it takes the inspiration of the Raven to do so.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateOct 31, 2012
    ISBN9781466966093
    The Bullied and the Raven Ii: Epitaph
    Author

    Jamie Emery

    Jamie is the author of the Bullied and the Raven series. He is a born and bred Arkansan and was born the ninth child of a family of ten. He lived in Northeast Arkansas for the majority of his life. Jamie and his wife, Pam, are the parents of a precocious daughter named Kara. Although he had many influences growing up, his mother, Joye Chism Emery, remains the greatest by far.

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      The Bullied and the Raven Ii - Jamie Emery

      © Copyright 2012 Jamie Emery.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

      ISBN: 978-1-4669-6610-9 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4669-6611-6 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4669-6609-3 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012920453

      Trafford rev. 10/27/2012

      7-Copyright-Trafford_Logo.ai www.trafford.com

      North America & international

      toll-free: 1 888 232 4444 (USA & Canada)

      phone: 250 383 6864 ♦ fax: 812 355 4082

      Contents

      Acknowledgment

      Chapter 1       Dream

      Chapter 2       Illumination

      Chapter 3       Volunteer

      Chapter 4       Passion and the Storm

      Chapter 5       Psychic Vampires

      Chapter 6       Meeting the Devil Himself

      Chapter 7       Information Overload

      Chapter 8       Atone

      Chapter 9       Justice and Faith

      The

      Bullied and the

      Raven II

      Epitaph

      Is the sequel to the first

      The Bullied and the Raven.

      A novel to cause awareness!

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      Dedication

      This book is dedicated to all who have been either a bully or a victim. Let’s stop the cycle and bring awareness to this topic. In memory of our loss on both sides, we love and will never forget you.

      JamiePS: Thank you,

      To my family and friends—I love you.

      WHEN YOU LOOK, CAN YOU SEE ME CRY

      CAN YOU LISTEN, CAN YOU AFFORD TO TRY

      WHEN THE RAIN’S AT AN END

      WILL IT REMIND YOU OF YOUR LIFE

      WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH THE WORLD

      WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH TIME

      I’M CAPTURED BUT NEVER CAUGHT

      FORGOTTEN BUT NEVER FORGOT

      HOW CAN YOU FORGET THE PAIN

      THAT’S IN YOUR MIND

      HOW CAN YOU FORGET THE PAIN

      I’M RUNNING BUT CAN’T GET AWAY

      PEOPLE WANT ME TO STOP

      BUT I CAN’T AFFORD TO STAY

      FRIENDS BECOME FOES, ALL ENEMIES NOW

      THE PATHWAY THAT WAS ONCE CLEAR

      I NO LONGER SEE

      WELL IS IT ME

      I DON’T SEE HOW, I DON’T SEE HOW

      WHEN YOU WALK, DO YOU WALK ALONE

      WHEN YOU STAND IN THE DARKENED NIGHT

      DO YOU STILL FEEL STRONG

      I’M LOST, CAN I BE FOUND

      I LOOK TO THE MIRROR THAT CHANGES

      DAY BY DAY

      I CAN’T SEE MY FACE, CAN’T SEE MY FACE.

      Jamie D. Emery

      Acknowledgment

      Being number nine of ten kids and having lots of friends and acquaintances, one never asked how I felt. I walked in a world full of people, yet I was alone. I am thankful for change and choice but especially for the one person that will never leave or forsake me.

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      Chapter 1

      Dream

      It’s easy to turn—to turn from victim to bully and bully into victim before you know it. We have all seen the brochures, refusal skills, and stress handouts: stop the anger, just say no to violence, just talk it over, and the big book on self-esteem. But what I want to know is what takes the darkness, what takes the Raven out of me! These thoughts rang in my head. I understood that they would never bring back what I had lost, and I guess I kind of deserved all this. What is it that makes me truly whole, or have I ever truly been?

      Is it faith, is it forgiveness, or maybe, is it just a bit of time? Either way, the one thing that I have found that is true is that we must be the very best that we can possibly be, period.

      I found myself in the center of madness, but I was still calm, and I feel it was the Raven that gave me that balance, that gave me that hope. I removed the bad, and I could sleep, not a lot, but I feared no more. My eyes were heavy as was my heart. No more tears, no more fear. I just needed rest, rest for the weary and heavyhearted.

      I had bad dreams once again, a cold reminder of all that I had lost, and especially of Sue. But I woke to the sound of laughter, not familiar laughter, but that of a child—a young child. I put my head onto the pillow, but still the sound remained. Was I dreaming? The television was off. I am still in my own house. Do I have an intruder with a sense of humor or one of the many victims returning to pay me back? I thought of all these things as I put my shirt on and grabbed my 9 iron.

      I walked into the hallway, and I could smell food, pancakes and sausage. Then the laughter came once again. It was a sweet sensation, yet frightening. I had my 9 iron on my shoulder, ready to swing. But what kind of intruder fixes breakfast and brings a child for entertainment? I walked into the kitchen and lowered my 9 iron as the memories rushed back into my head. Samantha and I began dating a few months after our first meeting at the diner. I guess I was still half asleep, or maybe I had some short-term memory loss. Either way, I was not used to Samantha fixing breakfast as she dropped off her son, Sean.

      Sam has an adorable four-year-old son named Sean, who is the quiet type most of the time—well, unless he’s laughing. And when he laughs, he laughs with his whole body, even the neighbors can hear him—kind of reminded me of me when I was a boy. He was happy overall, but he also never knew his dad, which in this case was good. His dad was a marine, and he died in combat. Some called him a hero, but to hear Sam talk about him, he was only a marine and never a father or a husband, at least not one that cared. He was abusive and angry at both Sam and Sean all the time, and he took any frustration out on both of them.

      I’m just glad that fate intervened rather than I. I had made it from victim to bully, from husband to widower and now back to father, or at least I felt like one. Sean called me Dad, and I would answer, and of course, Samantha would smile. She was just grateful to have a positive male role model in Sean’s life, and I made the perfect babysitter, but this was the first time that I remember Sam making breakfast before she left for work. She would usually bring Sean in, drop him off, and tell us to have a great day, the routine that I was finally getting used to, but now she is making breakfast. All this time that we had spent, I was always unsure of her cooking abilities. It was just one thing that I always did.

      The Raven had finally left me, and my exhilaration was in full force. It was as if the gloom and doom that had hovered over me all my life was finally gone. I never thought I would

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