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Friday is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day.
You may not know it, but Human Trafficking is the second most lucrative crime in the world. There are currently 27 million enslaved people worldwide- more than double the number of enslaved Africans during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. UNICEF estimates that 1.2 million children every year are sold into slavery, most of it sexual. Unlike slavery in the 19th century, what is happening today is happening in secret—yes, even here in America.
Human Trafficking won’t end until awareness is raised, and people like you and me take a stand. Learn more here. (Note: contains adult themes and actual accounts of sex slavery.)
If you make a donation to any organization who is a part of this fight on January 11th and forward me your receipt, I’ll send you one of the Dreamer short stories back as a Thank You for helping out in this important cause!
A few of my favorites are Love 146 (International), Gracehaven (Ohio), and GEMS (New York City).
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Poor Nathan…and not enough of his cute face on this page. I wants moar Nathanness, since there won’t be many more Nathan pages.
…WHO ARE YOU CALLING SCUM, YOU SCUMBAG!?!?!?
Bea’s neck ironically looks all scrawny when she swallows the pills—how many did she take? Uh oh…
The VI: Awkward conversation is awkward. Though they seem to have gotten along well enough. Poor Nathan looks quite the worse for wear, not surprising. :/ Again, MEEP! at the background…
Don’t say it that way, Caera! You are breaking my heart. No… More… Nathan…? *lip quivers*
*Cue Celine Dion*
Every night in my dreams, I see you, I feel you..
That is how I know my heart will go on…
Far across the distance and spaces between us.
You have come to show us go on. Near, far, I believe the heart goes on.
Oh gods, Nathan is worthy of a far better song than that!
Ok so the song’s not bad, just overdone. And besides, I wrote him his own. ;) <3
And NATHAN WILL ALLLLWAAAYYYS BE WITH US!!!! *sobs*
YOU CALL NATHAN A PIECE OF SCUM!! HOW DARE YOU!
I will show you who is a piece of scum! You lousy lousebag! Go crawl in your own filth and roll in it! Eat it too! taste your own wretchedness! Pig!
*Calms down* Uhh.. Bea.. How many pills did you take? Oh dear….
LET ME AT ‘IM, the no-good low-down scallywag!!!!
Nathaaaaaaaaaaannn!! :,(
YOU’RE A PIECE OF SCUM, DUMMY-HAM! AND THAT SPIT BETTER NOT BE AIMED AT MA BOI!!!
Although it is a very well drawn piece of spit…. *stares*
……..
….,Huh? What Where was I? Oh, yeah…. Sleep faster, Bea!!! (Wait, how many pills were inthat bottle?)
INCENTIVE CAPTION!!!!
(laughs evilly, then…)
British official: “I am instructed to inform you that you have been convicted by special tribunal and that unless you are ready to offer your cooperation you are to be executed. Do you understand what I’m telling you?”
Evey Hammond: Yes.
British official: Are you ready to cooperate?
Nathan: “No.”
British official: “Then you have no fear anymore…you’re completely free…”
Nathan: “Uh…..what?”
British official: “Nah, just kidding. We don’t do that.”
Whoops on the Evy Hammond! But otherwise, funny reference caption! :)
Oh…….yeah, that’s what I get for copy-pasting
So MEAN, Brent. OMG! lol
Poor Nathan, he doesn’t deserve to be treated like that!
Especially not by such a misbegotten spawn of a whore of a strumpet like Cunningham!
“Scum”, indeed!
So many emotions going on with this page and you blog post. Yet all I can think of at this precise moment is that you deserve some kind of award for that spitting onomatopoeia.
^_^ Thank you.
Oh, everyone, if you have kindle, guess what? A book called Halestorm, about Nathan Hale, is now free on Kindle. Even if you don’t have it, you can download an kindle free for your computer from Amazon.
I guess it ain’t selling. I heard it was dodgy but it’s Nathan Hale so you know I’ll snoop. lol
So I got it on my dad’s Kindle and I am we’ll into the first chapter. I can not stop laughing for the cheeze. Oh gods I am loving this…so bad! ;D
I just finished reading it.
I thought this Cunningham was bad. But the one in that book just made my skin crawl with revulsion. I wanted to vomit.
*Warning* Do not read book if you are an avid Nathan fan. The scene of his capture and hanging is… heartbreaking.
Does it get better? That first chapter was cheesey enough to spread on crackers. Lol
No. It is horribly inaccurate. I am cringing with each page.
Well at least I knew THAT going in. That’s the only reason why I’m laughing so hard.
LORA! You are the only historical fiction writer to do Nathan justice, that I have EVER come across. This is why I love you and am still reading, and will keep reading even after his final pages.
I think after I finish this novel I’m going to have to blog about that fact….O.o
Ok not laughing anymore…
You are not laughing anymore because it is so horrible? Lol. I stopped laughing when I reached the middle of the book. Seriously? Nathan fights British redcoats to escape capture? Drags around his girlfriend while trying to run away from the redbacks? Uhhhhh.. Tell me again how this is supposed to be accurate? here and there they are accurate. But otherwise, no. Horrible. Absolutely horrid!
I stopped laughing at chapter two. This is downright offensive. Disgusting. I will have that woman’s head for this.
If you want a free story, mine’s been online since 2001. Google “enemy spies nathan hale john andre”. Not a hundredth as good as Lora’s of course, but I hope not as cheesy as the one you’re talking about on kindle.
That was yours? Cool! I read it a long time ago, shortly before the Dreamer started. Way better than Halestorm, trust me. lol
One story I wish had been published, online or in print, was The Quintumviri. I found the prologue online when I was still in high school, and I eventually got in touch with the author, who said the publishing plans fell through, and back then self-publishing online wasn’t as “acceptable”/preferable as it is now. More’s the pity as it was well written, far as I could tell, and I was very intrigued to read the rest of it, which apparently took place in modern times.
Here’s all that’s out there: http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/summer/quintumviri.html
Wow! I met the author of the Quintumviri online in 1998 and we corresponded copiously, and eventually she made a trip across the country to visit me, after seven years of correspondence. We still correspond regularly and recently met face-to-face again. I count her as one of my dearest friends <3 I've read the entire book, and there's not much about Nathan in it, except for the part that's online. Most of it is a modern suspense story, but it's been so long since I read it I don't remember much. I think the hero was a descendent of Nathan Hale. I know, I know, he didn't have any. But in the story he had a brief affair and there was a child. The original Quintumviri (Nathan's school chums) evolved into a kind of secret society with somewhat nefarious purpose, as I recall.
I'll try to put a bee in her bonnet about self-publishing. But her life is very busy right now and she hasn't done any writing in a while, so I don't know if she'd have the time or inclination. I've tried to get her to read Lora's work, but she seems to be out of the mood for Nathan Hale right now, though we always raise a virtual glass on June 6 and September 22.
Oh, and you might want to check out my bibliography. There are a lot of great books about Nathan Hale out there, though most of them are very old. “A Namesake for Nathan” is pretty sweet, but the one that really grabbed me when I was a kid was called “Young Nathan”. I think the e-book is out there for free, but the formatting is messed up.
I really should add “Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales” to the bibliography. I really, really loved it, and was glad to see recently that Lora had found it too.
I predict that Bea’s parents will bust down the door to find her unconscious, and then we will have a hospital ER/stomach pumping scene.
Somebody refresh my memory… whose the British mucky-muck in the tent? He seems…. reasonable…ish… Maybe we can negotiate.
I could show him “negotiation”!!
Me: “Give him to us, or you will be swamped by fangirls without mercy!”
British official: *gulp*
LOL! Totally!
British official: *sighs* “Miss Copeland, you MUST understand there are numerous regulations and protocols involved in matters such as this. We cawn’t simply turn a convicted spy over to you and your, um, “associates” just like THAT! I say, such things simply aren’t done!”
Colette: “Oh, it CAN and WILL be done! Or ELSE!” *brandishes spontoon, fan-girl mob does likewise*
Me: “Better do it, sir. Otherwise you’ll make them angry. You wouldn’t like them when their angry!”
British official: *mutters* “Oh, fudge!”
Me, oblivious outside tent and distracting the guards outside: “Wow, does he usually go for fudge?”
Guard Ross: “Not…often. Perhaps we should–”
Me: “Whoa, whoa, whoa….you know he’s busy with that Hall guy, right? It’s maybe just like a last request thing, y’know?”
Guard Stark: “But sir, the provost marshall–”
Me: “–is a complete d*** to just you guys, you think he’d let the rebel have something? Hell, I heard he didn’t even get a bible or last rites from the guy.”
Guard Ross: “My word!”
Me: “Exactly! I guess your boss is just….more human, as it were.”
Guard Stark: *reluctantly* “There was a little in the supply tent….”
Me: “Okay, so one of you get it, and I’ll take over for a few, deal?”
I hope people remember that farm and household service are by far the highest levels of human trafficking. It is incredibly rare to find some one trafficked for sex, but that is what what gets the most attention. Most get to do hard labor in orchids or demeaning work as a house keeper.
You’re right. Thank you for sharing! I know there are websites out there that can help you find brands that do not use human trafficking for labor.
Even Trader Joe’s was under heat for this about a year or so ago.
Trader Joe’s? How did I not hear about THAT!?!!?!? What, do I live under a rock or something?
Nathan needs a hug… and I need a hug… poor Nathan!
Oh Bea if you don’t fall asleep just pretend you’re asleep and maybe your parents will believe you’re sick….Or they’ll take you to the hospital.
I keep thinking of ways this could go.
A) Bea winds up in a coma from all those pills and gets stuck in the 18th century
B) She somehow saves Nathan and brings him to the present where he has to pretend to be a doctor to avoid discovery.
C) In attempting to save Nathan, things go wibbly wobbly and Nathan’s spirit ends up trapped in her head. Nathan: Oh Lord, what sin did I commit to end up here? Trapped in a teenage girl’s brain! Bea don’t you dare start thinking about Alan! I’ve had enough trauma for a lifetime…..
D) Bea fails to save Nathan and is incredibly (and understandably) depressed when she wakes up. Her parents send her to a therapist…. who looks just like Nathan!? 21st century Nathan?
But Lora is the creative genius not I (LOVE the art btw…. and everything else in the comic)
Now to continue distracting myself from the sadness that is what is going to happen to Nathan…. maybe I’ll knit a Nathan plushy….
Alternate to D – instead of a therapist, it’s a church person
Oooh that would be good. New youth pastor in town!
Lol. That’s Nate’s big brother, Enoch, not Nathan.
For the record, I didn’t say pastor….I just said ‘church person’
Sunday school teacher. Or youth leader. ;)
Oh gosh, the trouble he would cause as a youth pastor…O.o
i don’t know, I think he’d be a pretty responsible youth leader
Ha! I would’ve LOVED Nathan as the youth leader or VBS teacher at church when I was a kid!!!
The boys would love him but the girls would luuuuuuurve him.
Yeahhh. That might get a tad awkward eventually, but if that’s what it takes to increase youth involvement in church-related activities then so be it!
Btw, nevermind the kids. What about the kids MOTHERS? Cougar-Alert!
What Lora said.
:( Nathan! I mean I am glad you put in the accurate historical detail, but MY FEELS!!!
GRRRRR! SCUM?? YOU, sir, are the SCUM! Can I kill him?! Please??!!!
On a different note, Bea had better get there FAST. (Btw, is it pronounced Bee-uh, or just Bee?). Because if she doesn’t get there soon…..No. Nononononono. I refuse to think about it! :( Not my Nathan!!!
That’s an oft’ asked question. “Bea” rhymes with tea or sea.
Good to know! In spite of the fact that I know her name is Beatrice (and therefore the first part of her name rhymes with sea and tea), I have always heard Bea in my head as “bay”…not sure why. :)
Is “Whaley” pronounced “Way-lee” or “Way-lay”?
The first one.
I am crying and really want to strangle that guy through the tears! Nathan!!!!!!!!! I want to hug him so bad right now… :’(
Whatever you’re going to do, Bea: Don’t do it!
(Eagerly awaits until the next update to see if she’s going to do it anyway)
More like Scummingham than Cunningham to me!