The Eighth Sacrament

By Mary Kitt-Neel

The year is 1985 and Elijah Crowe is a college student who has become addicted to painkillers and dropped out of school to get clean. He knows when he goes back he'll inevitably run into Irene, the only girl he loved, and the one chose drugs over. With understated support from his brilliant but tortured mother and a no-nonsense employer, Elijah moves forward the only way he knows how.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mary Kitt-Neel
• Release date: Sep 10, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452393964

Mary Kitt-Neel

I am a full-time freelance writer, writing website content and blogs for my clients. I also enjoy writing fiction, both novels and short stories. In addition to being a writer, I spent over a decade as an engineer at an Air Force facility, and I have also worked as a newspaper journalist.

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The Eighth Sacrament

Mary Kitt-Neel

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© 2010 Mary Kitt-Neel

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The Eighth Sacrament

March, 1985. It was the end of Spring Break, the day before Elijah Crowe was to return to Mawne University in Tennessee to finish out his junior year as a philosophy major. He was about to carry out a box of record albums to his battered Toyota pickup truck, but he decided to leave it where it was. Just leave it all right there in his room in his house out there in the hills of southwestern Virginia.

He decided to call up his academic advisor and explain that he was going to have to miss Spring quarter. He wouldn't explain about his parents separating