Gaunt Rainbow

By Matthew Sawyer
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Published: Oct. 13, 2010
Words: 86864 (approximate)
Language: English

Ebook short description

Rainbow is cursed and drains life from living things so that she remains in perfect health. A self-proclaimed messiah, a pubescent boy, cured her blindness when she was a small girl. Pamela believes the boy also resurrected her after she died in a warehouse fire when all of Capital burned. Her curse began the moment she came back to life, but by then the boy had vanished.

Extended description

Gaunt Rainbow is set in a bleak dystopia twenty years after a pivotal event in the war between the Chosen caste and heathens; the destruction of the walled city called Capital. Pamela, a young woman nicknamed “Rainbow,” is cursed to drain life from the living so that she remains in perfect health. A self-proclaimed messiah, a pubescent boy, cured her blindness when she was a small girl. She believes the boy also resurrected her after she died in a fire during Capital's destruction. Her curse began after coming back to life. After years of knowingly tormenting others, Pamela feels remorse and follows rumors. She goes into the Shur desert to find the errant messiah and hopes he'll remove her murderous curse.

The hunt ends the day she leaves the encampment. A sniper kills her. Eight years pass before Pamela is resurrected in the isolation of the desert. Her money and supplies are missing, despite the dead bodies and abandoned vehicles that surround Pamela when she awakes. She g... (Read more) Gaunt Rainbow is set in a bleak dystopia twenty years after a pivotal event in the war between the Chosen caste and heathens; the destruction of the walled city called Capital. Pamela, a young woman nicknamed “Rainbow,” is cursed to drain life from the living so that she remains in perfect health. A self-proclaimed messiah, a pubescent boy, cured her blindness when she was a small girl. She believes the boy also resurrected her after she died in a fire during Capital's destruction. Her curse began after coming back to life. After years of knowingly tormenting others, Pamela feels remorse and follows rumors. She goes into the Shur desert to find the errant messiah and hopes he'll remove her murderous curse.

The hunt ends the day she leaves the encampment. A sniper kills her. Eight years pass before Pamela is resurrected in the isolation of the desert. Her money and supplies are missing, despite the dead bodies and abandoned vehicles that surround Pamela when she awakes. She goes to the city, Gomorrah, and meets her old friends, Tee and Ruth. She learns heathens are building a new city with the spoils of the war. The city lays deep in the southern part of desert, and it is rumored the messiah disappeared in the South. Pamela hopes she sees the messiah, David, all grown up.
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writing, fiction, horror, demon, fantasy, ebook, pagan, alien, messiah, curse, monsters, heathen, pazuzu, pamela

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Gaunt Rainbow
Pamela, a young woman nicknamed “Rainbow,” is cursed and drains life from living beings so that she remains in perfect health. When she was a girl, a self-proclaimed messiah, a pubescent boy, cured her blindness. Pamela's curse began after the miracle, but the boy then vanished. She goes into the Shur desert alone to find the errant messiah. Pamela hopes he will remove her murderous curse.

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