Fields of Prey

by E. Hughes

"Fields of Prey" tells the story of a young slave girl through the eyes of a privileged young slave master. Spanning from 1852 to 1860, the story takes place in the fictional Cloverton, Missouri on a cotton plantation when young Ernest is given a slave as a Christmas present. He takes his charge seriously, but when he sets out as his father would to make his supreme presence supremely felt, a spark from the imaginative young Nina awakens his humanity...and love. Through her characters, Hughes vividly imagines a world where the horrendous nature of slavery and exploitation is commonplace. Ernest Lee Sturgess believes his love for Nina is real until the unthinkable happens....

42 pages, Paperback

First published January 9, 2009

About the author

E. Hughes is a metaphysicist and author of over twenty-years, with over twenty published works in multiple genres, from nonfiction, fiction, and children's books. Her recent publications include several philosophical works such as, The Absence of Reality: Aphorisms and Observations on the Nature of Reality and Existence. Hughes is also the author of Space, Time, and Loneliness (2024), a poetry chapbook that explores life, death, love, human isolation, solitude, and loneliness across the vast landscape of time and space, Reality Unbound: The Digital Mind (and the Nature of Reality), which explores the nature of reality, consciousness, perception, human and artificial intelligence, and simulated realities, and Time and the Multi-Universe: A philosophy of time and time travel (2022), which explores the meaning of time and the possibility of time travel.