Abby Burrus
Christian.
Author.
Equestrian.
Dreamer.
One broken slave girl...
One Markless Man...
One choice that could be her redemption, or her undoing.
Nova, a slave girl with a painful past, is offered something she never imagined possible by a Man without a Mark. But can she overcome her fear and mistrust long enough to find out if what he says is true?
Does she have the courage to call out one more time?
My toe hits something and I stumble. “Ah!” I fall down, and my hands land on it.
It’s cold, soothing to my hot body. I can’t see it, but I don’t have to see it to know what it looks like. It looks like release from this guilt and shame, it looks like peace, it looks dark and forbidding like death. And I know what’s where it leads, the place it will bring me to, this place of the slow dying of guilt, shame, and separation from Him.
But I want it so bad.
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Trapped by her own desires, there is no way out her shame, out of the choice she's always made. And her shame is keeping her from the choice that would release her, the call for help that would free her.
Is there any way out of the shame, and the guilt? Any way to choose what will satisfy her enough to free her?​
Faithfully fantastical writing
that reaches up to God and echoes Eternity.
Believe it or not, I wasn't always a reader. But I know when I became one. It was when I discovered that reading was for far more than schoolwork.
It was for stories.
That was the realization that made me into a devourer of books, a person who enjoys reading to this day. Because of the power of stories, of the journeys, lives, and adventures of the characters.
And something that I've discovered over the years is that the best stories are the ones that are both fantastical- and faithfully true.
Because, after all, isn't that what the Greatest Story, written by the Greatest Author, is?
It's fantastical that God would redeem us by His Son's death- and it's true. It's fantastical that dead men can be raised to life- but it's true that Jesus did, and that we will too. It's fantastical that God is going to give us eternity, a new earth- and it's true.
And maybe the best part? It's a Story we can live, one we're all invited into, a journey towards our true home that we can join.
So that's what this part of my journey is about. Writing stories that are both faithful and fantastical, that reach up to God and echo eternity.
Stories for eternity.
Stories for the journey home.
Stories that reach up to God and goodness.
Will you join me?
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How do you grasp light
in a sunless world?
A broken boy.
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A Sunless World.
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A Stone of Glory.
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A heist gone wrong.
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And one choice.
Rave is so desperate for a light that he’ll risk death to steal a Blue Diamond. But when everything goes wrong, he’s faced with a choice that will affect not only his fate, but the fate of the brother who broke his promise to him.
A choice that could lead to grasping Glory itself.
To Grasp Glory is a Christian fantasy short story published in the Illuminate the Dark anthology. Rave Havon is desperate for a light to hold onto, but after his planned heist of a Blue Diamond goes wrong and he finds out something about the Diamonds he wasn't supposed to know, he finds himself in hiding in the Prophet's house. And he's faced with a choice he doesn't want to make, which affects not only his fate, but the fate of the brother who left him in the suffocating darkness of grief.
To read the first two bonus scenes for To Grasp Glory, or to meet Rave and his brother Rook, subscribe to Abby's Newsletter.
Illuminate the Dark is a collection of action packed Christian fantasy short stories with impactful themes woven throughout. It's classic Christian fantasy with dragons, swords, sunless worlds, and characters who won't give up even when the night is darkest. It features fantastical creatures such as firebirds, a wide variety of characters from princes to orphans, and it's all tied together by one powerful theme: light over darkness.