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Perfect Nothing is Something Perfect

The One series continues with Trestle Press for a March release that focuses on a serious topic.

Perfect Nothing

by Rachel Hunter

Rachel is an award-winning poet and first year medical student. Somehow, she finds time to write. I think it took a lot of courage to share her harrowing story with us. Please take the time to read it and remember she is donating her proceeds to Give Kids the World.

Rachel Hunter says that no one should have expected her to be more than her illness. She became a victim of her own desire and a thing of woe. Then she became something more.

I met Rachel by funny coincidence. I have a series of fantasy novels called The Empyrical Tales and she is about to publish her own novel called Empyreal Fate. Independently, we are both writing about our ideas of a heaven-like place. In that regard, I have to assume we are both romantics, dreamers. I had to have a kindred spirit participate in this series.

When I asked Rachel to write a story of faith, she delivered something quite powerful and very personal. She tells of her battle with the physical and psychological illness called Anorexia Nervosa. I am honored to know that this is the first time she has written about or made her story public.

The thrust of her story is about her relationship with her father and him literally carrying her into the emergency room. As a father, I saw this story from that perspective and it brought me to tears.

One is about faith and belief and sometimes a person’s faith is not in a god, but in themselves. Rachel is currently a medical student, inspired by the doctors that helped save her life. She is becoming more than she expected to be. Her belief in herself and the power of the human mind is a concept that transcends so many religions and faiths. She is determined to not be defined by her own expectations and that is something from which we can all benefit.

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Comment by GD Thompson Sr. on March 5, 2012 at 9:55pm: Mark -

Hey. There is a balance of interest and concern to this tale. I am intrigued. Also, where can I look up the Empyrical Tales?

GD Thompson, Sr.

Comment by Mark Miller on March 5, 2012 at 11:42pm: Thanks GD!

Please feel free to visit my website: MillerWords.com

Also, both The Empryical Tales and the "One" series are on Facebook.

Facebook.com/EmpyricalTales

Facebook.com/MarkMillersOne

With the third Empyrical novel coming out this June, hopefully we will run into each other somewhere around Central Florida.