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L R Trovillion
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False Gods: The Show Jumper's Challenge
Teens
Author Insight
Worried Optimism
What can you pin your hopes on? In a crisis, we grasp at any thread of hope and hold on. This is especially so when dealing with a medical crisis because we often feel as if everything is just so beyond our control. But hope struggles on. As a writer fascinated with the human capacity to hold on to hope, I try to instill it in my stories. With bad news inundating us every day, I turn to great writers for inspiration. I recall the poignant way Emily Dickinson described this fledgling hope: "Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all."
Book Excerpt
False Gods: The Show Jumper's Challenge
The show’s vet was a thin man dressed in an olive-green coverall with the name of his veterinary practice embroidered on the breast pocket. Cory kept her eyes on the embroidered name and avoided his eyes as he explained in his quiet, patient voice what he had found after examining Epi. His speech was sprinkled with strange words: protozoa, ataxia, nervosa, and paralysis. The words, like black flies, buzzed around Cory’s head, never lighting on her consciousness.
Vee kept asking questions. It seemed as if she was trying to make the vet say something they could pin their hopes to, some way to take action, base decisions on. Instead, he demonstrated how Epi circled her foot before she placed it and how she staggered when he pulled her off balance by her tail.
“Neurological symptoms,” he explained.
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