Cursed

By Johnson, Kevin, Wade

Book Id: WPLBN0100751364
Format Type: PDF (eBook)
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Reproduction Date: 6/11/2026

Title:	Cursed
Author:	Johnson, Kevin, Wade
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Drama and Literature
Collections:	Authors Community, Fantasy
Historic Publication Date:	2026
Publisher:	Self-published

Member Page:	Kevin Johnson
Citation APA MLA Chicago Johnson, K. W. (2026). Cursed. Retrieved from https://self.gutenberg.org/

Description
A world of powerful magic, whether coming from the Old World or New; Portals, swords of great power...and Curse Nails. A young man is Cursed, which is an automatic death sentence - and an excruciating one. And yet, he lives. This is the story of how it happened, yes. But more so it is the story of his recovery.

Summary
A young man in a world of powerful magic is given a fatal curse, which puts him through an ordeal on the way to dying. Despite that, he finds himself alive. And needing to recover.

Excerpt
Excerpt 1: "This cursed town," she muttered. I felt a chill run up my spine. "Don't say that." "I didn't mean real Cursed." "I saw someone—mostly heard—getting Cursed when I was a kid." "Oh no." "I still have nightmares sometimes. The hammering." She came and put her arms around me. I turned my head to let my cheek rest on her hair, all pulled up still. "You like that?" she said softly. "Always like a hug." "Then let dreams dismiss night fears." "I like that," I said. "I got it from my mama." "Wise." Excerpt 2: "What was that about?" Georges said. "We learned a bit, but what were they standin' to gain?" I didn't say anything. //I'd kept my head high…gazing up into the blueness of the sky, looking at the puffy white clouds drifting on the wind.// "They told us a lot," Lilly said. "On top of what Jane discovered with the Portals." //I'm not going to be drifting. I'd been pulled along by the currents, when my last life was ending. But no more.// Jane said, "I just wish I'd found out more about where each Portal is. On a map." //I passed through Death's Portal, and the passing was nothing but pain. Agonizing pain. But I've come through. Come out the other side.// "What you've found is immense. Don't discount it," Lilly said. "And it gives us a starting point to go explore those Portals from." //Lifted up out of the drowning river…floating like a cloud above it all.// Georges said uneasily, "Though the Hand's prowlin' those same Portals." //This second life isn't going to be all buoyancy, all the time. But I won't let fear pull me under, either.// "True," Lilly said, "but we'll just have to be ready." //I won't let it.// //I won't.// They looked over at me. "I'm ready," I said.

Table of Contents
Map Prologue Part One One: May Your Eyes Never See Beauty Two: May Your Food All Taste of Ash Three: May Your Ears Never Hear Music Four: May Your Back Oft Feel the Lash Five: May Your Lips Never Be Smiling Six: May You Never Once Find Laughter Seven: May Your Soul Never Find Solace Eight: May Fear Follow You After Nine: May This House Crumble to Fragments Part Two Ten: May This Hearth Always Be Cold Eleven: May the Larder Always Be Lacking Twelve: May the Building Remain Unsold Thirteen: May the Stables Still Stand Empty Fourteen: May the Owner Never Find Gain Part Three Fifteen: May the Gardens Always Be Rotting Sixteen: May the Land Become a Mere Stain Seventeen: May Every Hand Turn Against You Eighteen: May You Be Ever Profaned Nineteen: May Friends' Gazes Avoid You Twenty: And You Be Looked on with Hate Twenty-One: May Your Rest Never Be Easy Twenty-Two: May You Meet a Terrible Fate Twenty-Three: For the Curst Deserve Nothing Twenty-Four: Let Every Hand Be Withdrawn Twenty-Five: For This Is Certain of the Accursed Epilogue: They Will Not Live Well, or for Long Afterword Appendix Thinking Through the Premise About the Author