by

Jim Heter

Copyright © 2005, 2009  by Jim Heter

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Steeped from childhood 

in her grandmother’s tales 

of shaman ancestors, 

driven to become an agent 

for the DEA by the loss 

of her sister to the drug culture, 

near death from the bullet 

of a would-be abductor, 

Dema Culver does not yet know

 it is her destiny to become

—the Lamia.

 

The Lamia

 

Part 1: Awakenings  Lamia p1 ltr.doc

 

Part 2: Reunion  Lamia p2 ltr.doc 

 

Part 3: Transformations  Lamia p3 ltr.doc

 

Part 4: The Arrow of Intent  Lamia p4 ltr.doc 

 

Part 5: Connections  Lamia p5 ltr.doc

 

Part 6: Sea Changes  Lamia p6 ltr.doc

Part 7: The Laws of Magic Lamia p7 ltr.doc

Part 8: Force of Nature Lamia p8 ltr.doc

Part 9: Forest Dreams Lamia p9 ltr.doc

Part 10: Forest Awakenings Lamia p10 ltr.doc

 

In modern dictionaries you will find lamia defined as a class of mythological monsters, half woman and half serpent, who would lure children in order to suck their blood.  But the earliest meaning of the word is simply abyss, and the real story of the Lamia is very different from the one passed down in myth…