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    Ray of Lightning
    Ray of Lightning
    Ray of Lightning
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    Ray of Lightning

    By Mark R. Turner

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    A helpful, healing resident of a retirement facility in her mid-nineties calls herself Grace. The staff welcomes a new 96-year-old resident, the well-known African American film score composer Dr. Allen DeMark. Grace initiates a conversation with him about the shared memories of their youth. He shows no recognition of her but they both know stories from the past of RayAnne Damping, a young woman made famous for her extraordinary preaching and miraculous healing ministry in the 1930’s. The stories materialize in their presence as Ray presses him to remember a certain Eddie Noble, music director of RayAnne’s ministry. The unscrupulous publicist Bradford Ranken used him to destroy the ministry, and the love between Eddie and RayAnne. DeMark hides a past too dangerous to reveal but which torments him to this day. Can Grace reach into the past violence and heal the wounds of his youth?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMark R. Turner
    Release dateJul 31, 2020
    ISBN9781005222963
    Ray of Lightning
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    Mark R. Turner

    Mark Turner is a visual artist, filmmaker, writer and artistic leader. He has produced and taught in five major regions of the globe as the director of Horizon Gate Productions, a non-profit arts organization which he co-founded with his wife in 1981. His emphasis has been in multi-media to tell stories and produce contemplative experiences using his visuals, poetry and soundtracks. He is currently creating tangible and digital art of inspirational and metaphorical images which he then re-purposes as motion graphics films with rich sound tracks of his poetry, sound effects and music. All this is exhibited together in a conversational atmosphere called the Film Gallery Cafe which can be booked in many venues.

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