One In a Million, page 32
But oddly, desperately, a small sprout of joy seemed to rise in her heart, from some far-off place.
She’d held out for hope long after she’d stopped believing in it.
Now, well, here it was.
He was looking at her, waiting for a response.
For some reason the lyrics from an old Bruce Springsteen song came to her mind.
The door’s open, but the ride ain’t free.
No. No it wasn’t.
But nothing worth having ever was.
“Robert,” she said, letting her own tears come to life. “Me too.”
It spread that way, in soft, cascading, multi-layered pitches, like those from a wind chime, across the globe: pale blue lines, ricocheting and stretching from one soul to the next. It had begun with a single line in Monterey, California, with a man named Kyle Fasano, who had sacrificed himself, and from there, like branches on a tree made of pure electricity, the line had become a multitude of lines, spreading up and down the California coast, west across the Pacific Ocean to a woman just outside Anago, Japan, and east across Arizona and the Rockies of Colorado. Before long the lines had reached ten thousand points of contact, then a hundred thousand. They sprung across the Atlantic Ocean and split off through small towns outside of Barcelona, up through Genoa in Italy and bridging through London to Norway and Russia. In fact, by the time the lines came to a stop, not a continent in the world was untouched.
A million souls reached, called to repentance, in ordinary and extraordinary ways.
All because of one man.
Some accepted the call, but many rejected it.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tony Faggioli began writing stories in the 5th grade and continued doing so until college, when he gave up writing to pursue a very short career in politics and a much longer career in business. One day, he finally realized that neither brought him anywhere near the amount of joy as writing. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he was raised in Los Angeles, California and graduated from the University of Southern California. He is a happily married father of two kids, two dogs and a pretty awesome goldfish.
You can find Tony on tonyfaggioli.com.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A lot goes into teaching and helping a writer to learn how to properly listen to the voices in his head. I'm pretty sure the process never ends. But so far, along the way, I've had some amazing people come into my life in this regard and this page is for them.
To my grade school teacher whose name is now sadly lost to me: thank you for taking the shy kid in the corner and telling him that he could write. After you came Mrs. Gilchrist at Jefferson Middle School, who taught me how to push on, Mr. Morgan McSweeney at West Torrance High, who taught me how to believe in myself, and Dr. Howard Hertz at Pasadena City College, who taught me how to tell the truth.
Thanks also to the long-standing members of my Novel Writers Group: Beverly Diehl, Bruce Bartels, Vance Gloster, Kim Townsel and Hilaree Robinson. You have all cared for me, encouraged me and sometimes critiqued the hell out of me! Also, to my beta readers: Tinky Schmidt, Amouri Burger Maryke Burger, Melissa O'Gara, Herbert Smith and Dean Baker....I couldn't possibly be more thankful to any of you.
A special nod goes out to my creative team, including editor extraordinaire Sophie Playle of Liminal Pages, Andrew and Rebecca Brown at Design for Writers and the awesome web design work of Laird Sapir at Memphis McKay.
A great big thanks and I love you to my wife Maxime, my son Anthony and my daughter Sophia. Finally, to my Dear Cousin, Diana Kobus, thanks for being my muse.
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