The Revelation of the Sage

By Vicki Smart Penhall

Thirty year-old Jenna Glynn and forty-five year-old Clarence “Gash” Peavy have been in emotional combat since they first met at Dallas’ historically haunted bar , City Tavern. As an ambitious investigative journalist, Jenna expected that her spec TV series, Celebrities Haunt Dallas, would be a solo enterprise. But Gash unintentionally crashed her project with his goth-rockstar good looks, as well as his previously untapped supernatural connection.
After five terrifying episodes, Peavy, a recovering substance abuser, is now desperate to get away from his contractual obligations with the network, from the stress and confinement of living on the Glynn estate, from his follow-up psychotherapy with Jenna’s father, and most of all, from Jenna herself.
Gash persuades Joey, the family’s limo driver, to borrow Angus’ motor home to escape for a restful retreat along the Red River border between Texas and Oklahoma. The last thing that the once-famous musician needs is another paranormal encounter, even if it is just the old Sage with all of his spiritual wisdom.
Jenna’s intrusion on the trip completely destroys his hope for relaxation. Then they suddenly find themselves surrounded by the malevolent spirits of some of America’s most wicked and notorious outlaws, who once flourished in Indian Territory just across the Red River from Carpenter’s Bluff Bridge. The vicious apparitions have a grievance, and they call upon the forces of nature to help settle the score. This evil outburst incites the righteous wrath of the ancient Cherokee Nation from beyond the grave.
The conflict between the two reluctant partners comes to a full rolling boil. The truths that are revealed around the raging campfire, along with the sudden violent thunderstorm, may decide their mutual destiny. They must summon all of their courage if they hope to survive The Revelation of the Sage.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Penhall Publishing
• Release date: Mar 2, 2013
• ISBN: 9780985739379

Vicki Smart Penhall

Vicki Smart Penhall is a truly engaging and readable author of short fiction novels. As a performing artist, she is an actor, comedian, director and a Texas singer/songwriter. She hails from Houston; was mostly educated at Texas Tech University, and holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from Texas A&M University. As an educator, she has taught high school and college writing and theater, and regularly serves as an adjudicator for UIL academic and theater competitions.

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The Revelation of the Sage

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Vicki Smart Penhall

The Revelation of the Sage

Jenna Glynn Ghost Stories – Book 6

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Copyright © 2013 by Vicki Smart Penhall

ISBN: 978-0-9857393-7-9

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Edited by Lindsay Penhall Haley

Photographs by Mary Jane Farmer (except Belle Starr-public domain)

Cover design by Lindsay Penhall Haley (InterStellar Graphics)

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Dedication

to

Debra Jane Rushing

My Encouraging and Inspiring Friend

Portrait by Pamela Porter

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

About the Author

Acknowledgement

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Preface

The brilliantly organized government system of the Cherokee Nation served as a pattern for the founding fathers of the United States of America. Subsequently, it was disrupted, corrupted, and almost destroyed by the manifest destiny movement and the removal of the so-called Indian tribes. The Trail of Tears is a horror story on its own. Whole nations were cruelly displaced from the beautiful and fertile region of the mountains of Appalachia to the dry dust bowl of the American West.

For the rest of the 19th century, north Texas and southern Oklahoma shared its own sordid history with regard to the mistreatment of the Native Americans. White settlers and outlaws gradually took over Indian Territory and the homeland that had been promised to them.

We whose ancestors emigrated from other parts of the world owe a great debt to those native peoples, and we who are their descendants may be due a final reckoning for those tragic events.

Meanwhile, Jenna and Gash have some urgent lessons to learn about atonement and recompense, about service and gratitude, and about life and love.

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Chapter One

Well, finally! Jenna heard her father say to Clarence Gash Peavy.

Dallas psychiatrist, Dr. Angus Glynn, was speaking to the debilitated ex-rocker on speaker phone from his home office at the Glynn’s Highland Park residence. Jenna was listening outside the office with a glass held firmly to the door and her ear pressed up against it for maximum volume.

"What do you want, Angus?" asked Gash who refused to call him doctor.

What do you mean, what do I want? You have missed three counseling sessions!

"I told you. I am sick. Flu."

I am a doctor, I can write medical prescriptions, if you will just come in and talk to me, Angus reminded him.

"Maybe tomorrow," the voice said before the hang-up.

Clarence! Hello? Hello? Damn.

Just then, Bunny Glynn, Jenna’s socialite mom, rounded the corner and reacted to Jenna’s inappropriate presence at the door to the office.

Jenna, what do you think you are doing?

Mom! Don’t sneak up on me like that.

Again, what are you doing? This is highly irregular.

Jenna removed the glass from against the door and