Mily the Millennial: A Tall Tale

Book Description:

This Book Contains a Tall Tale.

The story picks up in the summer of 2001, when nearly-eight-year-old Mily Junegrass Womack-Yoder trips into a patch of Pitcher's thistle. All at once, she loses almost all her marbles and winds up with magic bugs in her brain.

The 'Clairs' -- a name Mily coined on account of the bugs' various clairvoyances -- give Mily a higher sense of awareness. With the Clairs' powers, she might just stand a chance against her family's curse of Schleprockness.

Mily's story is riddled with 'impossible' events. The most unlikely of these may seem flung into the Land of Far-Fetched. When it feels like improbability has no limit, remember this: Euchre is a game of tricks.

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WARNING: This Book Contains a Tall Tale

Read Mily the Millennial - Available Now!

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Link to eBook (Free to KindleUnlimited subscribers!)

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eBook - $5

Paperback - $15

Hardcover - $25

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HAPPY READING!

@bykaileyann

I'm so close to the End.

I can feel it, right there.

It's looming straight ahead, if I can just reach.

Writing a novel is work man.

The kind that makes calloused hands.

A few tens-of-thousands of words back, I thought:

I'll never make it.

But here I am now, mere pages away.

And then.

What comes after?

Readers, I hope, at least some.

Things seem to have shaped up nicely so why...

Can't I decide what is still left unsaid?

Isn't it strange how follow-through...

Feels almost like getting letting down?

Even so, I'm here, so near it hurts.

All I want to do is write

Except I'm what you call

"Multi-passionate"

So usually I just

Burn the hell out

Get so spent I

Can't possibly free myself

To think creatively -

Ideas short-circuit

No plug ≥ No power

Rationalization says

'Guess I'll have time after'

Even when I know

I already misused my energies

Too stubborn to admit

Often

That this action is vital

To my longevity

To my wellbeing

Well to my Sense

In everything

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SECOND, My Authority to Write on Behalf of the Spirit –

And just who might I be, to claim Authority of my own Word?

Truly, one who is instructed by the SPIRIT to do so.

It is the Word of my Testimony which gives me license to write freely,

Because the LORD knows my intents as well as my shortcomings,

And still the SPIRIT enlivens my hands to tell the Whole Truth.

I wonder, as one might who makes a living by writing:

How many drafts did Matthew go through?

And how many scribes might he have employed?

I am no copyist; I am an Author –

A call I have always feared,

For it is the SPIRIT’s own Craft I wield.

I did not understand my role at the start,

But Grace has been a good shepherd through age.

I am not yet wise, though I do actively aim to be kinder;

Because I recognize my Word has power,

I strive to raise chins and meet eyes

So others know I mean them no harm

When my language fails to rise to the *Occasion.

Isn’t it true that I am called to give Testimony?

For what purpose otherwise am I baptized in the WORD?

Some will definitely hear this work and shake their heads,

But then this message isn’t meant for them;

I write because it is the mode the LORD chose,

Bestowed to me with Purpose in mind:

How to describe what it’s like –

Inviting the divine SPIRIT inside

To my skeptic neighbor who thinks my ‘faith’ or ‘religion’ are well and fine

For me, but believes there’s no Science in it –

The SPIRIT didn’t charge me with convincing others of my Existence,

But said to do good in his NAME and to go tell of it.

I am urged to write by the same SPIRIT who stirs the sermons,

Where many of late have squirmed in their seats

Leaving confused and discomforted.

They are restless with repentance and none the wiser,

Mixed-up with a sense of missed context,

But unable to put their finger on Why.

Right and Wrong are not expository facts,

But become known through resolution:

Plucking Scripture from its place is therefore

Inhumane,

As well as tasteless,

Because it robs the audience of the Whole Truth –

A lot of folks don’t know what prompted the SPIRIT to say

‘This, that, and the other’

But rather trust Pastors and Leaders who read the WORD more

To provide meaningful summary and draw conclusions

Rooted in relevant Evidence from the Bible.

I write to remind You of LIVING TRUTH:

Even so withheld in our Versions,

The WORD is Unbound:

I am writing Now.

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THIRD, My Confidence in the Gifts of the Spirit –

-----------(Soon To Follow)-----------

So help me LORD,

I wish to do you Justice in the telling.

Will you please lead my keystrokes

So I might do Just that?

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FIRST, My Testimony of the Spirit –

My name is Kailey Ann, and I am Saved.

I am Saved by the Spirit of Jesus,

Who over the course of Three Key Events1.) 2.) 3.)

Made me just as I am.

1.)

At age Eleven I ‘Prayed the Prayer’ toward the end of one Sunday Evening Message,

Holding a hardback copy of Order of the Phoenix on my lap.

I said to the LORD, “Please come into my life and make me more like you,”

But I didn’t look up when Pastor Eddy asked me to –

I was afraid – even though I thought I prayed the prayer right,

I didn’t wanna admit how many times I’d prayed it already in my life –

Always wondering whether it counted if

I doubted right away

Or if I kept asking for Proof.

2.)

I was Baptized in 2006 right after my little sister –

We got dunked in the Name of the FATHER, SON, and HOLY SPIRIT by Pastor Marion,

Who’d performed my parents’ wedding ceremony that very same school year.

I was wearing a maroon gown which could’of fit three of me,

And a silver cross necklace my Mom put around my neck that morning,

And my hair was in a ponytail because it always was –

I tried not to feel shame about the fact that I was older,

And my little sister was getting dunked first –

My parents said being Baptized was my choice,

And I’d said, “If she’s ready, I am!”

Because I Twelve and not ‘Out’

And I could not bear the secrecy

Of seeming Unsure whether I was Saved

Any longer.

3.)

In July of 2008, It Happened:

I spent the summer saving money so I could go to Supercamperific,

And my Mom spotted me half the funding I needed to go because

She loves me, and Thirteen isn’t old enough to make minimum wage.

At the tail-end of Pastor Terry’s first Evening Message, he explained:

“Salvation is a Gift: All you have to do is take it.”

And then, Out of Nowhere –

Terry Foster called My Name:

“Kailey, would you come up here for a minute?”

The Camp Nawakwa amphitheater

At McCormick’s Creek was abuzz –

I stood in front a great sum of campers,

Joined my church camp pastor center-stage,

And he held out his hand:

And I saw –

In his upturned palm:

A face – Sakakawea smiling:

At me!

Her eyes flashed:

Made contact!

And Terry said to Me so All could hear:

“It’s a Gift: All you have to do is take it.”

So I did * I have this token of Wisdom with me always, wherever I go.

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SECOND, My Authority to Write on Behalf of the Spirit –

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Addressing one Churchᵃ

leader's claim to relentless

pursuit of Jesus...

A ‘Conversationᵇ’

implies discourse, back-and-forth

or else it’s just Pride.

If queerness is wrong,

what on earth did Jesus mean -

entering women?

Is it not true that

He makes us two-spirited

on invitation?

Consider the Source,

for the LORD does not look well

on WORD taught in vain;

It is not I who

rebukes you but our Savior

who demands better;

Instead of stripping

Scripture of context, try this:

Search in earnestness.

Where does my God say

Church has a right to know my

genitalia?

Most Sincerely,

A Genderqueer Member, baptized

’05 in Greenwood

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Viewer Notes:

ᵃ - Emmanuel Church | https://www.eclife.org/

ᵇ - “Conversation # 2 | Conversations | Pastor Danny Anderson | Emmanuel Church Online Message.” Emmanuel Church, 15 Mar. 2022, https://youtu.be/yYp6CqEIe70. Accessed 24 Mar. 2022.

This video should include a trigger warning for audience members in the

LGBTQ community. Its message includes a discussion of 'transgenderism'

as defined by the Head Paster of Emmanuel Church, whose definition and

expounding message fundamentally misrepresents and misinterprets the

spiritual, cultural, experiential, and philosophical facts of trans and

nonbinary genders. The message argues that (1) Gender and biology are

inseparably linked; (2) Gender cannot be assigned and is biological fact; (3)

There is purpose and order in binary gender.

The message argues that individuals should, "Let your biology determine

your gender identity," citing the following as scripture evidence supporting

the 'moral law' of binary gender:

The Bible (ESV)

Proverbs 3:5-6

Luke 9:23, Genesis 1:27-28

Matthew 19, Genesis 2:24

Deuteronomy 22:5

Psalm 139:14

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Author Afterthoughts:

"Is [ fill-in-the-blank ] wrong?"

Queries such as these ^

are self-fulfilling prophesies:

When answer given comes across prescriptive,

it may'of been the question was begging;

First instead as open-ended,

then let the heart and mind discern in searching.

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*****@bykaileyann

: Every year was the grade I was in

until it wasn't anymore;

it was easy for me to know

we're special

because writing the date on my papers

turned my mind to what

my daily achievements meant;

K-12 public school

'99 to '12

'The Last Class'

we called ourselves

how many of us?

and joked about counting

down to the 'End of the World'

and then Once we

stopped class -

I was in Prob & Stats -

and as seniors we watched

seconds go

oh weren't we analog?

wholly tuned-in to the ticking

'End of the World'

as we knew it Then;

And laughed

when the Bell rang ~

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@bykaileyann

#poetry #poem #freeverse #freeversepoetry #millennial #millennialauthors #author #poet #HEDERAREADS

I find it quite hard

to believe strings of fate are

twisted thereafter;

Am I not full-fleshed

meshed instinct and surest sense

living future-tense?

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02.25.2022

@bykaileyann