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BOOK: Vessel

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I didn’t know if I was ready to teach anyone what it meant to be human, or what they might have to teach me. I thought of Recks’s last words to me. He ordered me to take care of myself if anything happened to him. He wanted me to live. Now, living was the only way I could honor his memory.

Kinder cocked his head to one side, silently regarding me while I considered his offer. He extended his strange, gray hand to me. I took it and followed him toward my future.

THE END

LISA T. CRESSWELL

Lisa, like most writers, began scribbling silly notes, stories, and poems at a very young age. Born in North Carolina, the South proved fertile ground to her imagination with its beautiful white sand beaches and red earth. In fifth grade, she wrote, directed and starred in a play “The Queen of the Nile” at school, despite the fact that she is decidedly un-Egyptian looking. Perhaps that’s why she went on to become a real life archaeologist? Unexpectedly transplanted to Idaho as a teenager, Lisa learned to love the desert and the wide open skies out West. This is where her interest in cultures, both ancient and living, really took root, and she became a Great Basin archaeologist. However, the itch to write never did leave for long. Her first books became the middle grade fantasy trilogy, The Storyteller Series. Her first traditionally published work,
Hush Puppy
, is available from Featherweight Press. Lisa currently lives and writes in Idaho with her family and a menagerie of furry critters that includes way too many llamas! You can visit her website at
www.lisatcresswell.com

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