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Rudi and Raven

Some sample chapters from my Rudi and Raven book, “The Harvest Festival”. As mention on the main page of the site, I considered this for a pre- to early-teen audience at first, but had to wonder if it was for an older audience, once the stories started writing themselves and I just became a passenger. Prologue: This is what the town looked like. The centrepiece, you could call it, was the large stone church. White stones, though quite grey now with age, colourful gardens and no parking. It had a tall stone spire with a clock at the top. The clock chimed twice a week: once on Sunday morning to welcome the worshippers and once on Sunday evening to…well, not to do anything really. The minister was a young man with “ideas”, which the townsfolk didn’t care much for. And long hair, which the townsfolk didn’t care for much either. His “ideas” were probably the reason why the clock only chimed for itself on a Sunday evening. Just down the road and to the right was what the townsfo