The Calling Dream
By Karlyle Tomms
Genre/Category: Coming of age
At the age of ten, in 1945, Ronald Dennison, the son of a backwoods Arkansas preacher, began having profound and religiously laden dreams about a strange redheaded woman. Throughout his life, she seduced him, called him to preach, to become a televangelist, while she berated him for his sins of lust. Yet she held a secret so dark that he dared never admit it, even to himself. The more famous and wealthier he became, the more he struggled with himself about his lust, his adultery, his fetish, and his shame until, one day, his life reached a breaking point, and his torment could no longer be contained.
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