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    Ogres Is
    Ogres Is
    Ogres Is
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    Ogres Is

    By Rachel Starr Thomson

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    Sagrat, an enormous ugly ogre, shares his cave with a hag he hates and keeps himself happy munching deer and occasionally women.

     

    Memory is a princess at the center of a vast and tangled conspiracy, and when Sagrat steals her, he is both saving her life and planning to eat her.

     

    When Sagrat's plan clashes with the hag's and the conspirators show up to reclaim their kidnapped princess, Memory is the only one who can see an outcome for herself other than dying a pawn's terrible death.

     

    Because Memory is the only one who has not discounted the power of love to change everything.

     

    "Ogres Is" is a short story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLittle Dozen Press
    Release dateDec 12, 2015
    ISBN9780988061316
    Ogres Is
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    Rachel Starr Thomson

    Rachel Starr Thomson is in love with Jesus and convinced the gospel will change the world. Rachel is a woman of many talents and even more interests: she’s a writer, editor, indie publisher, singer, speaker, Bible study teacher, and world traveler. The author of the Seventh World Trilogy, The Oneness Cycle, and many other books, she also tours North America and other parts of the world as a speaker and spoken-word artist with 1:11 Ministries. Adventures in the Kingdom launched in 2015 as a way to bring together Rachel’s explorations, in fiction and nonfiction, of what it means to live all of life in the kingdom of God. Rachel lives in the beautiful Niagara Region of southern Ontario, just down the river from the Falls. She drinks far too much coffee and tea, daydreams of visiting Florida all winter, and hikes the Bruce Trail when she gets a few minutes. A homeschool graduate from a highly creative and entrepreneurial family, she believes we’d all be much better off if we pitched our television sets out the nearest window. LIFE AND WORK (BRIEFLY) Rachel began writing on scrap paper sometime around grade 1. Her stories revolved around jungle animals and sometimes pirates (they were actual rats . . . she doesn’t remember if the pun was intended). Back then she also illustrated her own work, a habit she left behind with the scrap paper. Rachel’s first novel, a humorous romp called Theodore Pharris Saves the Universe, was written when she was 13, followed within a year by the more serious adventure story Reap the Whirlwind. Around that time, she had a life-changing encounter with God. The next several years were spent getting to know God, developing a new love for the Scriptures, and discovering a passion for ministry through working with a local ministry with international reach, Sommer Haven Ranch International. Although Rachel was raised in a strong Christian home, where discipleship was as much a part of homeschooling as academics, these years were pivotal in making her faith her own. At age 17, Rachel started writing again, this time penning the essays that became Letters to a Samuel Generation and Heart to Heart: Meeting With God in the Lord’s Prayer. In 2001, Rachel returned to fiction, writing what would become her bestselling novel and then a bestselling series–Worlds Unseen, book 1 of The Seventh World Trilogy. A classic fantasy adventure marked by Rachel’s lyrical style, Worlds Unseen encapsulates much of what makes Rachel’s writing unique: fantasy settings with one foot in the real world; adventure stories that explore depths of spiritual truth; and a knack for opening readers’ eyes anew to the beauty of their own world–and of themselves. In 2003, Rachel began freelance editing, a side job that soon blossomed into a full-time career. Four years later, in 2007, she co-founded Soli Deo Gloria Ballet with Carolyn Currey, an arts ministry that in 2015 would be renamed as 1:11 Ministries. To a team of dancers and singers, Rachel brought the power of words, writing and delivering original narrations, spoken-word poetry, and songs for over a dozen productions. The team has ministered coast-to-coast in Canada as well as in the United States and internationally. Rachel began publishing her own work under the auspices of Little Dozen Press in 2007, but it was in 2011, with the e-book revolution in full swing, that writing became a true priority again. Since that time Rachel has published many of her older never-published titles and written two new fiction series, The Oneness Cycle and The Prophet Trilogy. Over 30 of Rachel’s novels, short stories, and nonfiction works are now available in digital editions. Many are available in paperback as well, with more released regularly. The God she fell in love with as a teenager has remained the focus of Rachel’s life, work, and speaking.

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      Ogres Is - Rachel Starr Thomson

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      Ogres Is

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      Ogres Is

      Ogres is ugly, Sagrat thinks happily to himself, and they don’t care. Clank, clank, clank goes the chain, heavy links bouncing off the ground, as the princess stumbles along behind. He jerks her a little to make her keep up. Ogres is ugly, strong, and hungry. Sagrat’s long legs cover leagues at a stride. Under the forest trees, over the muddy ground. Green overhead and grey-brown underfoot.

      They come to a place where a gully opens before them, lined with big and small rocks, with a tiny stream trickling through the bottom. Sagrat plunges down the slope to the gully bottom, dragging her after him. Her legs can’t keep up; she’s too small to be any good at crossing rocks and streams. Sagrat yanks the chain again to spur her forward, but it’s no good. He sighs as she falls among the rocks, without even her hands to break her fall. Now his dinner is bruised.

      Life is not fair, Sagrat thinks. He picks her up and throws her over his shoulder, little frail delicacy. She trembles; he can feel her warmth through her thin dress. The chain is long and droops from her hands to the ground. Sagrat picks up its length and loops it loosely around his thick neck. It is no proper chain; it has no shackles. He tore it off a wagon wheel when he stopped the party. Good thing he didn’t need shackles; he just tied it around her wrists for a leash. She won’t get away. Someone else nicely tied her hands for him before he caught her.

      Sagrat whistles as he strides along.

      The sun slants through the wet woods into the gully. The rocks light up, white and grey, sparkling in the sun. The

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