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Foreword Not much has ever frightened me; I mean really frightened me. The one exception to that has always been vampires. I’m not quite sure why they frighten me; I just know that from a very early age I have always had a fear-like awe of them. Silly as it may sound now, I can remember that as a teenager, I always wore a glow-in-the-dark cross around my neck. I felt safer sleeping at night when I had my cross on. Of course it was slightly annoying to my sisters, who claimed it kept them awa...

Chapter One 1990 In the great master bedroom; as the lightning flashed and the thunder roared, a new life began. At the same instant the child was being handed to her mother, which was exactly as the grandfather clock in the hall was chiming the hour of midnight on October 31, 1990; a large raven flew in through the open window and perched on one of the posts of the large iron bed. "Raven," Rene’ Dawn murmured, looking first at the staring black bird, then down at the cocoa colored infant in ...

Time goes on, through pain and fear, Hate growing with each tick of the clock; War, assassins, terrorism, even death, Nothing halts the passage of time. WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf, To name a few of the 20th-century wars. Kennedy, King, Kennedy, Lennon--great men cut down In a short space of time by assassins' bullets, Others barely escaping with their lives. The World Trade Center, Oklahoma City, Too many terroristic attacks in foreign countries to count. Mengele, Manson, Dahmer, Men...

Dear Lord guide me through this life, I need your love to be, A guardian against all things, Which hurt and trouble me. Guard my children, keep them safe, help them come to know, That you are there when needed, In times of strife or woe. Watch o'er my home, help keep it free, from everything that's bad, Let everyone who enters know, the love that Jesus had; for all your children on this Earth, No matter what they'd done, And Lord, help me learn the patience, that was in him, your son. Lord, ...

I fell in love when I saw you, the right words just couldn't be found; I waited too long so I lost you, my fears kept holding me down. Someone was near or the timing not right, how I wish I could go back in time; to the night that we met, I would tell you, I love you and now you'd be mine. Foresight's the wisdom of sages, hindsight is my lot it seems; I waited too long so I lost you, now I only have you in my dreams.