The Prophetess

By David Landrum

Letting the spirit enter her was only the beginning...

 

Drusilla, a first-century Philippian slave girl, is forced to admit a spirit of prophecy into her body at the Temple of Apollo. Upon her return to Philippi, her master forces her to serve as a fortune teller to make him wealthy. Her life settles into a predictable pattern until a group of itinerant Jewish preachers visits her town, proclaiming a new religion. Lydia, a friend of her family, converts to the new faith, and urges Drusilla's master to free her.

 

When he refuses, the spirit within Drusilla begins to shout out prophecies no one—including Drusilla—ever expected to hear.

• Language: English
• Publisher: eLectio Publishing
• Release date: Nov 16, 2022
• ISBN: 9781632130204

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About the Author

THE

Prophetess

David Landrum

eLectio Publishing, LLC

Little Elm, Texas

www.eLectioPublishing.com

The Prophetess

By David Landrum

Copyright 2014 by David Landrum

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ISBN-13: 978-1-63213-020-4

Published by eLectio Publishing, LLC

Little Elm, Texas

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I

Noises. I remember the noises from that day. I can’t get them out of my mind, and sometimes they come to me in my dreams. I hear my mother wailing like a madwoman and tearing her hair—ripping it from the roots; my sisters and even my brother, who was almost seventeen, weeping; the city clerk reading the proclamation; the soldiers’ leather armor-harnesses creaking and their iron sandals sounding on the smooth polished stones of our peristyle. Only my father did not make a sound. He stood there, tight-lipped and expressionless, listening to the clerk read. Nothing could be done. He was up to his neck in debt from bad investments. His chief creditor was a Roman (we were Greek—not many Greeks live in Philippi) and came with the force of Roman law behind him in this Roman city. Since Father could not pay, he had to give up one of his children to satisfy the debt, and it turned out to be me. I was fourteen years old.

My mother fell on her knees and begged. My brothers and sisters came to aid her as she collapsed to the floor, drool running from her mouth, her hands extended in plea. The creditor smirked. The clerk wrote out the paperwork exchanging me for the release of all my father’s debts. The soldiers looked around and shook their heads, hands on their swords. Once the proper papers were executed, they took me away.

They did not put me in chains, but the man who had me as a slave, Quintus, had brought along four male servants just to make sure I did not try to run away. The four of them surrounded me as we walked down the street, away from my house, away from my mother’s screams and cries of anguish.

She’s only a child! Only a child! I heard her scream from our threshold. I tried to suppress the fear I felt.