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    A Disgraced Angel
    A Disgraced Angel
    A Disgraced Angel
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    A Disgraced Angel

    By Jon Jacks

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    Am I an angel?
    Certainly, the Novices and Sisters of the Nuns of the Clouds don’t think so.
    Where are my wings? they wonder.
    Can an angel lie so close to death?
    What is an angel anyway?
    How can I persuade them that I’ve simply lost my grace?
    And how can I live with myself as the Novices suffer so much?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJon Jacks
    Release dateMar 29, 2020
    ISBN9780463136959
    A Disgraced Angel
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    Jon Jacks

    While working in London as, first, an advertising Creative Director (the title in the U.S. is wildly different; the role involves both creating and overseeing all the creative work in an agency, meaning you're second only to the Chairman/President) and then a screenwriter for Hollywood and TV, I moved out to an incredibly ancient house in the countryside. On the day we moved out, my then three-year-old daughter (my son was yet to be born) was entranced by the new house, but also upset that we had left behind all that was familiar to her. So, very quickly, my wife Julie and I laid out rugs and comfortable chairs around the huge fireplace so that it looked and felt more like our London home. We then left my daughter quietly reading a book while we went to the kitchen to prepare something to eat. Around fifteen minutes later, my daughter came into the kitchen, saying that she felt much better now 'after talking to the boy'. 'Boy?' we asked. 'What boy?' 'The little boy; he's been talking to me on the sofa while you were in here.' We rushed into the room, looking around. There wasn't any boy there of course. 'There isn't any little boy here,' we said. 'Of course,' my daughter replied. 'He told me he wasn't alive anymore. He lived here a long time ago.' A child's wild imagination? Well, that's what we thought at the time; but there were other strange things, other strange presences (but not really frightening ones) that happened over the years that made me think otherwise. And so I began to write the kind of stories that, well, are just a little unbelievable.

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      A Disgraced Angel - Jon Jacks

      A Disgraced Angel

      Jon Jacks

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      The Dream Swallowers – Nyx; Granddaughter of the Night – Jonah and the Alligator

      Glastonbury Sirens – Dr Jekyll’s Maid – The 500-Year Circus – The Desire: Class of 666

      P – The Endless Game – DoriaN A – Wyrd Girl – The Wicker Slippers – Gorgesque

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      The Wendygo House – Americarnie Trash – An Incomparable Pearl – We Three Queens – Cygnet Czarinas

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      Whatever happened to Cinderella’s Slipper? – AmeriChristmas – The Vitch’s Kat in Hollywoodland

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      The Wailing Ships – The Bad Samaritan – The 13th Month – The Silvered Mare – SpinDell

      Swan Moon – The Unicorndoll – Lesser Nefertiti – My Shrieking Skin – Stone in Love

      Font of All Lies – The Bared Heart – The Fairy Paintbox – An Angelic Alphabet

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      Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul

      St. Teresa of Avila

      Chapter 1

      Life is a journey not a destination

      St. Thérèse of Lisieux

      It’s not far now; sanctuary.

      I can manage it, despite the pain, despite no longer being able to simply fly there.

      The vast car parks lie empty, the visitors so warmly welcomed in the summer barred, for their own safety. In winter, the passes lying far below can be abruptly blocked by heavy snowfall.

      The reception, the café, the shop, selling all manner of icons and religious artefacts; they’re all closed, shuttered up.

      The main doors, too, are closed.

      Will anyone hear my knocking?

      I’m so weak.

      Is this what it feels like to be close to death?

      I think, deep inside, I can hear someone making their way along the convent’s vast, echoing corridors.

      It’s a shuffling noise, more like wheels, rather than feet.

      The door swings open.

      It’s a nun.

      One of the robot nuns I’d heard about.

      And to think,

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