Seeing Is Believing (The Whispering 1)

By Eden Laroux

From the Publisher that brought you popular short story series Hostile Hearts, Earthbound Angels, The January Morrison Files Psychic Series, Eve Snow Psychic P.I. Series, Ralph's Gift, Children of Time, Children of Two Futures, Song of Teeth, Chains of Darkness, The Magaram Legends, Tropical Storms and Friend Zone...

LITTLE TONY IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN SEE BRUCE... UNTIL MEG FINDS THE SPELL
IMAGINATION BEGETS CREATION

Foster parent Meg Suther’s new foster child Tony has an odd quirk. He talks to an imaginary friend. However it turns out the friend is not anything close to pretend.

Bruce exists. Bruce is a friend to Tony and is the father figure Tony wishes he had.

Meg finds this out very soon when she reads from a book she finds in the bottom of Tony's bags. The book contains a rhyme that strangely reads like a spell. When she read it out loud—poof!—comes out Bruce, all physical. All real.

Like a rocket, the lamp flies. But Meg realizes how important Bruce is to her foster child, so she allows him to stay, though a bit bruised. In the end, trusts are built as they learn that they both love Tony with all their hearts, and a friendship starts to form.

Tony created Bruce when he had found the book in a library and the spell caught his own attention. Now, he shares his imaginary friend with Meg, and as he watches them begin to like each other, the possibilities are forming in his hungry, hopeful heart.

If Bruce knew what wish the child was really asking when he spoke that spell aloud, he will be running.

Or maybe not.

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EXCERPT
Why a thirteen-year old would have a book that was geared for an age group far younger than his own was a mystery to Meg. She would have to ask Tony about it. She moved to place the book on the bedside desk. A loose page in the book slid out of place and onto the floor.

She quickly bent down to pick up the loose page. The text on the page itself was eye catching. Printed in a royal purple in a style that suggested it was scrawled on parchment paper long ago. Meg couldn’t help but read a bit of it. What she read struck her as odd and she found herself reading it aloud in a way to make herself positive she was reading these exact words.

“Cross your heart and now you take from your mind a thought to make. Hold, think it over twice. Then what you wish for will come to light.”

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Sandra Ross
• Release date: Oct 13, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301684496

Eden Laroux

Eden Laroux was born on November 27, 1978, in New Orleans, Louisiana, to a father who was a butcher and a mother who was a florist.Her mother, originally from Saint-Emilion in France, migrated to the US to become a textile worker.Eden Laroux was born as Emilia Domini. She had an elder brother, Calvin, and has a sister named Philomena.Her father, a second-generation Italian immigrant, left Emilia’s mother for a laundrywoman, who was also of Italian descent. He was a gambler and an alcoholic. It was learned later that he not only stole money from his employer, but also left the family with gambling debts to settle.Eden was 14 at the time, and the experience of being abandoned and deceived seared into her memory – a theme which showed up in most of her early literary works – sad poems and essays--and in her college years, short stories for various creative writing classes.Eden's brother Calvin chose to leave his own studies and worked odd jobs to supplement their mother’s income, which was obscenely meager, after their father left.Despite financial difficulties, Calvin pushed Eden to work for a degree, and through his and other people’s help, she was able to get a scholarship to attend college and study English Literature.Three weeks after Eden's graduation, Calvin - a closeted homosexual - was killed in a freak accident at work (stabbed by his partner in the middle of a long drive for an out-of-town furniture delivery). He had “come out” only to Eden. He and Eden had been very close, owing to their father’s leaving and their mother becoming undone and distraught.Philomena, Eden's younger sister, is the family’s joy and the family’s artist. While her formal training is in business (she is currently studying for a degree in finance and strategic management), she nevertheless finds time to also dabble in the visual arts – as a potter, painter, and, of late, as a furniture designer.Emilia chose to write under her mother’s name, Eden, as a tribute both to her mother's unconditional love and for her strength to overcome an enormous challenge of raising a family – all on her own.

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Seeing Is Believing

By Eden Laroux

Published by Publications Circulations LLC.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, companies and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or the publisher.

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Chapter One

WE'RE ALMOST THERE, Meg announced.

The sullen boy next to her said nothing. Instead he looked down at the floor of the beat-up station wagon, clearly lost in his thoughts. From time to time, his hands would clench within the sleeves of his grey, long-sleeved sweatshirt, a habit Meg had noticed since the first time she saw the boy.

At first glance she knew that she was looking at a boy who had seen too much of the dark side of life far too soon. His brown eyes would always have a hint of a deeper sadness. Sad to say, it was a look that Meg had seen in a few other children she had fostered. And every time she saw it she could feel her rage rise to her chest as if it were a form of heartburn.

How anyone could hurt their own child physically and emotionally on a weekly basis was a mystery Meg would never ever figure out. A part of her didn't want to solve it. To solve would be to understand, and to understand could lead to a form of sympathy. Monsters don't deserve sympathy.

The boy's name was Tony. He was a sweet boy and like every victim of abuse he would be an emotional wreck for a long time. So the silence that was only broken by the occasional question Meg would ask Tony was a part of the drive that one couldn't ignore.

Tony, you must be really warm wearing that sweatshirt in this heat, she said.

I'm fine, Tony said, his brown eyes still cast down.

Meg knew that wasn't so. The inside of the vehicle was oppressively hot due to the summer heat. Even with the windows down. She wished she had made that appointment to fix the air conditioner in the vehicle before heading down to pick Tony up. The poor boy didn't need heat stroke added to his list of problems.

She wouldn't push him to remove the sweatshirt though. Clearly it was a form of personal protection to the thirteen-year-old.

Turning all thoughts away from the short conversation, Meg searched her mind for a safe topic of conversation that would interest Tony enough that he