An excerpt from Simple...

Simple is a nightmare story about the world of the abused. Of family bullying, and the violent and upsetting abuse of a mentally challenged man.
Ethan, or Simple as he is called, is a huge bear of a man, with the heart and mind of an innocent child. Leanne, his young half- sister, is the only person who tries to take care of him.
Set in the beautiful backwoods of West Virginia, far from civilisation, will they be able to escape from their vicious and uncaring family?
This story has it all. Love and caring, taking on fear and brutality. The terror of nearly being burned alive, of being hounded like animals.
And the overpowering triumph of love, defeating the evil of hatred.
Excerpt from Simple…
I walked for hours, and just when I thought I would never find them, I smelled wood burning and there was a hint of voices carried on the wind.  Why had no one grabbed me?  Jack would never have let an outsider close enough to smell our fires burning.  Closer, I could hear a fiddle being played and someone singing a song, not something I heard too often at Gran’s.
They let me walk right into their camp.  It had been built among the trees and the land hadn’t been cleared much at all.  The cabins were much the same as ours, made with logs cut from the forest. Only thing different was the moss growing on the outsides where not much light could reach. The cabins looked green, almost as though they were still growing.  It felt a lot colder up here, even though I knew the sun was still up. It should be setting soon, and Simple would be lying where I had left him, in the dark.
The sound of the fiddle stopped and a woman about Gran’s age stood up.  My feet suddenly felt about three sizes too big.  I stumbled, and then came to a standstill, unable to move.  What was I thinking of, coming here?  Going to town would have been better, would have changed my life, Simple’s too. Possibly for the better.
The woman spoke, her voice deep yet softer than Gran’s.‘What ye be wantin’ so far from home, young’un?’
I must have looked half beaten.  My dress was torn and bloody, filthy arms and legs, scratched and bleeding.  I hoped they didn’t think I was one of the crazy stories come to life. My thoughts finally slipped into my mouth and my words sounded like the damp dirt I stood upon.  The woman picked up a cup of water from the table, stepped forward and offered it to me.  She said, ‘They call me Belle Spiers hereabouts.’
The cool water tasted good.  Then all my words came out in a rush.  ‘I need help. Simple’s hurt, please you have to help me.’‘Slow down girl, your words are runnin’ together like my boys heads when I need to put them in their place.’I took another mouthful of water. ‘It’s Simple, his leg’s broke.  Uncle Jimmy left him back there in the caves.’
She interrupted me and called out for someone called Jimmy.  I felt my heart freeze, turn to ice, expecting Uncle Jimmy to appear.  The frozen waste where my heart sat, slowly melted when the older Man who had been playing the fiddle limped to her side, along with another Man who looked nothing like Uncle Jimmy.‘Go see what this young’un has got herself into.’
Suddenly I had the strangest feeling she knew right off who I was and where I came from.  Even the name Simple didn’t move her none.  A few other faces came to see what all the fuss was about.  One of them was a boy called Zach with yellow hair like the sun, older than me but not by much. The one called Jimmy told him to come with them.‘Gonna need more than old pa here to bring a log like Simple back up from the caves.’
It took a while, but his words sunk deep like the roots of a tree sucking at my brain.  He knew Simple!
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