Thoughts and Prayers (A Deviant: The Renegades Novella)

Geraldine “Geri” Wayfield grew up as the pastor’s daughter. The pastor was a faith healer who could back up his claims. The family-cult she descended from was frequently blessed with impressive feats of spiritual power. Spiritual Gifts were supposed to be her birthright from God, and Scars were a shameful sign of lacking faith.

The problem was, she wasn’t developing even the lowliest Spiritual Gifts despite her father’s power. And he was impatient and cruel. Spare the rod and spoil the child, after all.

Now Geri’s grown up and her father’s dead. She killed him. Her cohort helped her after she finally Diverged and escaped the cult after decades.

Today she’s in her first therapy session with a Remade psychiatrist. Maybe she’ll even attend more than one session.

This is an illustrated novella that contains 16 original internal illustrations.

Content warning: This novella is for mature audiences and contains discussions of abuse, particularly physical, emotional, and cult/religious. Drug use and self harm (in the opening poem) are also mentioned. Reader discretion is advised.