Ray of Lightning

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  • A
  • helpful,
  • healing
  • resident
  • of
  • a
  • retirement
  • facility
  • in
  • her
  • mid-nineties
  • calls
  • herself
  • Grace.
  • The
  • staff
  • welcomes
  • a
  • new
  • 96-year-old
  • resident,
  • the
  • well-known
  • African
  • American
  • film
  • score
  • composer
  • Dr.
  • Allen
  • DeMark.
  • Grace
  • initiates
  • a
  • conversation
  • with
  • him
  • about
  • the
  • shared
  • memories
  • of
  • their
  • youth.
  • He
  • shows
  • no
  • recognition
  • of
  • her
  • but
  • they
  • both
  • know
  • stories
  • from
  • the
  • past
  • of
  • RayAnne
  • Damping,
  • a
  • young
  • woman
  • made
  • famous
  • for
  • her
  • extraordinary
  • preaching
  • and
  • miraculous
  • healing
  • ministry
  • in
  • the
  • 1930’s.
  • The
  • stories
  • materialize
  • in
  • their
  • presence
  • as
  • Ray
  • presses
  • him
  • to
  • remember
  • a
  • certain
  • Eddie
  • Noble,
  • music
  • director
  • of
  • RayAnne’s
  • ministry.
  • The
  • unscrupulous
  • publicist
  • Bradford
  • Ranken
  • used
  • him
  • to
  • destroy
  • the
  • ministry,
  • and
  • the
  • love
  • between
  • Eddie
  • and
  • RayAnne.
  • DeMark
  • hides
  • a
  • past
  • too
  • dangerous
  • to
  • reveal
  • but
  • which
  • torments
  • him
  • to
  • this
  • day.
  • Can
  • Grace
  • reach
  • into
  • the
  • past
  • violence
  • and
  • heal
  • the
  • wounds
  • of
  • his youth?
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