Soul Exchange

By Clarence Causby

Xavier Townsend just graduated high school. He goes to college to get a great job to help out his mom and to make a wonderful life for himself and his girlfriend. To do this, he inadvertently sells his soul and doesn't realize all the trouble and chaos he would ge

• Language: English
• Publisher: ReadersMagnet LLC
• Release date: Jun 24, 2024
• ISBN: 9798890915924

Clarence Causby

Clarence was born in Virginia on December 26, 1979. He loves to watch movies and loves to hang out with his friends. He also loves to watch Anime like Black Clover, Jujutsu Kaisen, Beserk of Gluttony, Overlord, and The Eminence in Shadow and reads Manga or light novels when he can. He loves playing video games like Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Baldurs Gate 3, and Diablo 4. He also watches WWE and his favorite wrestlers are Rhea Ripley, Damien Priest, Roman Reigns, Karrion Kross, and Carmelo Hayes. He also likes AEW superstar MJF. He loves to eat and research different topics. He also likes to cook and bake. He watches YouTube to see reactors, watch funny videos, or hear about new singers or groups.Clarence wants to travel to countries like Japan, Dubai, Colombia, Thailand, Germany and Switzerland. Clarence also likes to go on his phone and make beats on his phone through an app. Clarence loves all kinds of music from Rock to Heavy Metal, to pop R&B to blues, jazz, classical, jazz, electronica, disco, soul Motown, ska, punk, alternative, Gospel, rap, and dubstep. Clarence loves Adele, Ariana Grande, and their vocal range. He also enjoys Linkin Park, Dan Vasc, Disturbed, Sevendust, Eminem, J Cole, Slipknot, Tech N9ne, EZ MIL, 50 Cent, NF, Jelly Roll, and Ludacris. His Favorite actors are Jason Statham, Dwayne the Rock Johnson, Vin Diesel, Al Pacino, Chris Hemsworth, and Henry Cavill. Clarence also enjoys comics. He loves villains more than heroes. He is a huge fan of Thanos, Darkseid, The Red Lanterns, and The Joker. He also likes The Blue Marvel, She-Hulk, Power Girl, Wonder Woman, Black Widow, and Silver Surfer.

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Soul Exchange

Copyright © 2024 by Clarence Causby

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2024901079

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Chapter 1

Hello, my name is Xavier Townsend. I want to tell you a little bit about myself before I begin to tell you my story. I live in Canton Texas. I have been here all of my life. I’m 27-years-old, I come from a very religious family. My mom raised me to go to church and to trust and believe in God. I have six siblings. I’m the baby of the family. I have three brothers and three sisters. My oldest sister is named Angie and is 34. My middle sister is named Barbara, she is 30. Then we have Melody, the baby of the girls, she is 28. My brothers are Ronald, who is 37; James, who is 33; and Devon, who is 28. My father was a drunkard and was very abusive to my mom and my siblings, I said was because he is dead, but I will get into that a little later.

It was nice living in Canton, that is, until my father came around. I had just graduated from high school, my father came stumbling in, shouting curses at my mom and me. Most of my siblings had left home to start their own lives, I was the only one in the house with mom on that very day. He told my mom that she better fix him something to eat and to clean the house. I was in my room at the time. I grew more and more angry with him. I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. I was 18-years-old then. I was thinking if I even wanted to go to college or not because I didn’t feel like going to school since I just got out of high school. I wanted a break and I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do. To me, I wasn’t really good at anything and wasn’t sure about what I could possibly do.

Can I be real with everyone for a minute? I know it’s not a nice thing to say, but I honestly wanted him dead. I got tired of him yelling at mom and abusing her and abusing me. So this fateful day, he came in screaming, Why don’t you do something with your miserable life, instead sitting around doing absolutely nothing? I wish we never had you. I told your mom we should have aborted you, you lousy ingrate. I hate that you were ever brought into this world! I was holding a pencil in my hand and got so angry, I snapped it in half. Your stupid whore-of-a-mother is useless too… and before he could get another word out, I punched him in his face. Don’t you ever call mom that, YOU HEAR ME???!!! I’ll kill you for that and send you straight to hell!

Mom grabbed me and said, Xavier stop it this instant! That’s your father you’re talking to!

I said, He’s no father of mine. He’s dead to me. I wish he was never born!

He laughed. He said, If I wasn’t, you wouldn’t be here either! with that, he pushed mom out of the way and grabbed my head, he slammed it into the wall and started hitting me repeatedly. I was on the ground and I couldn’t move, I was in so much pain. I watched mom pleading him. Mom told him, Stop! Don’t hit Xavier! She said, Lord Jesus, please help.

He slapped her and said, There is no God and there is no Jesus, you stupid holy roller! There is only life and nothing else! With that, he punched mom and she fell to the ground. He stormed off, You both are useless wastes of life. I’m going somewhere where I can get away from this family and get treated right. He would usually leave and be gone for like a day or a week, sometimes months. I crawled over to mom. I was crying, I’m sorry I couldn’t protect you, mom.

She laid a hand on me and said, Baby, it’s alright. Are you okay?

I said, I’m okay. But how are you?

She said, Baby, don’t worry about me. God has us covered. we got up.

I was like, How does God have us covered? Why hasn’t he done anything to that man who claims to be your husband and our father? I said, Maybe the only thing he and I agree on is that maybe there was no God.

Mom said, Shut your mouth. He has kept us all here. God is going to move for us

But when is this all-powerful being going to do something for us? Why does He keep letting us go through things?

She said, Baby, God has His time. Remember that song I used to sing? She started to sing, He may not come when you want Him, but He’ll be there right on time. Don’t give up hope Xavier, just have faith."

Fine Mom, but it’s not easy.

She said, Baby, nothing in life is ever easy. If life was easy, why would we need God or to give God praise? Everything will be fine. Trust me when I tell you God is watching out for us. I pray for this family every day. I pray that God will save your dad, and that God will look out for you and your siblings, and I pray that God will always watch over and protect your souls.

I know you do Mom, but sometimes I wish God would hurry up and do things. I got to my feet and helped mom up as best as I could.

To speed this up a little bit, mom would always have a family dinner when all my siblings would come over on Sunday. A couple of months went by and we didn’t hear anything from the man that called himself our father.

One Sunday, we were at the dinner table laughing and talking when we heard a loud knock at the door. My mom walked over to the door where there was a police officer. He said, Mrs. Townsend, I have some news to tell you.

She cried out, No God! No! and she fell to the floor.

Mom! we all shouted. We ran over to pick her up and asked what was going on. Mom turned to the officer, It’s about my husband, isn’t? I know it is, that’s why you’re here.

Yes Ma’am, it is, said the officer.

I knew it. I’ve been having a strange feeling all day long today. I didn’t know what it was.

What happened officer? I asked.

Well, your father was in a car accident. He crashed into a tree.

I want to go see him, Mom said.

Sure Ma’am. I came because we want to make sure this is your husband.

We all went with mom to comfort her. When we arrived at the site of the accident, we saw our father’s body through the window, decapitated from the impact of the crash at the point where he had his seatbelt on. We all held our mom and told her it was going to be okay. My siblings started to pray over her and asked God to give her peace.

Like mom, my siblings have always been more religious than I have, even though mom says I have a life calling to do the work for God. But at that very moment, I did thank God because this so-called father of ours was finally dead. I know it’s wrong to say, but I was so happy to see him dead. But I felt bad, too, because I know how hard it was on my mom. She is a saint, and God surely had to be with her for her to still mourn a scum like him. We got back to the house where my siblings and I made sure mom was okay. We made sure she laid down and checked up on her to see if she needed anything. My siblings asked me how I was doing. I said, You sure you want to know? Do you want the truth?

They said, Of course we do, you know that.

I told them, Between us, I’m so happy and glad he’s dead.

They had shocked expressions on their faces, but knew with what we all had been through, there would be some degree of relief.

They said, You can’t be happy.

Why not? I asked. You all got out of the house and didn’t have to deal with the abuse that mom and I had to. Or would you all prefer him to still be alive, still beating and degrading Mom?

Of course we don’t want you or mom to get abused anymore, but you shouldn’t wish for people to die.

And why not? I asked.

Because it’s wrong and you shouldn’t wish people dead.

So you’re telling me that all of you in here are not the slightest bit happy that he’s not here? Don’t lie and get all religious on me here, we’re siblings, I said.

They said, We’re glad he can’t hurt or harm you anymore little brother, or mom. But remember, mom still cared for him and it’s still not right that you wish death on people.

Whatever, I said in return.

There was a knock at the door. I went to answer. My friend Sarah was there. She wanted to know if everything was okay. I explained what happened. She started to cry, Oh My God X, how is your mom and you, and the rest of the family? I told her that, everyone was concerned about mom because she was just crying and not eating. and was not eating.

"That’s not good at all. If there’s anything I can do at all to help, please