Eve's Refusal

by Michael Hearing

Overview

St. Francis knew it, Bobby McGee learned it, and Andrew Thurston meets the realization head on.

Eve is a nobody – just a dirty, mentally challenged homeless woman who stands on a street corner in her rags and "prophesies." But she knows exactly what she possesses, what most of those who pity her don't have.

Eve refuses to take advantage of the social programs and for a good reason. She refuses to submit to the medical procedure and the progress monitoring, preferring instead to keep what she has.

Eve has an important lesson to teach Andrew Thurston, Director of the Social Equity and Rehabilitation Department, who is determined to help her. And it's a lesson he learns the hard way.

"Eve's Refusal" is a Flannery O'Connor-esque short story of approximately 3,400 words.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940044313699
Publisher:	Michael Hearing
Publication date:	02/12/2013
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	137 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Michael Hearing is a freelance writer/essayist/novelist living with his wife, dogs, cats, horses, and ferrets on a few acres with a small lake in northeastern Oklahoma. There, he tries to grow vegetables, catches quite a few fish, and does his writing. Having lived a fairly desultory life, Michael decided that it’s time for some order and method. So he is finishing up and publishing some books he’s had in the works for many years. But, still, he is likely to be all over the genre map. In most cases, though, he has lived what he writes about, and his works ring true.