The other day I heard about this guy who healed rapists and murderers in a ward for mentally ill criminals in Hawaii. They all thought Dr Hew Len would last the usual one month, but he sat at his desk with the inmates files and said the ancient Hawaiian prayer, “I’m sorry I love you…” over and over for four months. The worst offenders calmed down enough to be freed of their shackles and play tennis with the employees. Within four years they had to close the clinic down because almost all of the inmates had been released. I looked up this guy. I thought I’d find a drunk-on-peace guru, but instead I found a man with soft eyes and a prickly demeanor, saying quite impatiently that cleaning his thoughts changes the world he sees.
Don't be afraid. This book is about forgiveness, but not of the ordinary sort. I hope you lose sleep, but not because of a haunting.
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Thank God I am not aroused by soft places. My only weakness
now is soft, singing skin stretched over sculpted bone, the pretty
architecture of a woman’s skeleton.
T.C. Farren, The Book of Malachi, 2020
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Damn them.
Damn the prisoners for bringing my loved ones back to me.
They called up my father, my cousin Kontar, the singer in our
village, for goodness’ sake. They hooked their toenails beneath my
skin, dug their fingers in.
Somewhere between the moon and the sea a helicraft thrashes
like an overhead fan.
T.C. Farren, The Book of Malachi, 2020
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They whisper, they wail with open palms. Men, most of them,
their voices deep with a raw catch. Oh God, beseeching. Meirong
turns at the end of the aisle, leads me back the way we came. She
bangs on number forty, the last cage on our right.
‘Josiah has killed over three hundred people.’
T.C. Farren, The Book of Malachi, 2020
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When I begged my character, Malachi to go face to face with naked killers in cages, I had no idea what he was going to find out.
Where I live [near Cape Town], the homicide rate is second only to South America and dead bodies turn up wherever humans live.
My only intention was to spy inside the minds of murderers but Malachi walked straight into the prisoners’ hall in his white sneakers.
He went in furious and wishing them dead but within days came across something surprising. The afterlife.
I’m still bewildered at how the book turned out, but now I’m thinking, what if Malachi is right?
More about this in Sci Fi Bulletin: bit.ly/scifibulletin-farren
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Q. Are you a pantser (someone who writes by the seat of their pants) or a plotter?
A. I’ve become more of a plotter but it’s largely futile because the characters still dive sideways ... and I can’t exactly pull them over like a traffic cop for the sake of a plot. Read the full interview: bit.ly/interview-tcfarren
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