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30: The Dragonfly Catcher
Love is a splendid thing when you can find it, but sometimes sex with a stranger can be more eye opening. Be careful when seeking validation in a state of desperation because when the true you comes to the surface you may not like what you see.
In a desperate moment CaSandra tried to escape her unhappiness by swallowing a handful of pills, but instead of escaping the world she no longer wanted to be in she finally found what she was looking for after ending up in a hospital emergency room.
I am really hoping that readers will get the complexity and the complete insanity of my character CaSandra. Even as the Author of 30: The Dragonfly Catcher and the creator of this character I am shocked and amazed at her behavior and the way she thinks!
There are life lessons to be learned from all of my stories and 30: The Dragonfly Catcher is filled with them. You must be someone who is walking that thin line between insanity and genius to truly experience the beauty of my breakout/standout character in this cautionary tale of a woman named #CaSandra who has named herself "The Dragonfly Catcher."
In a desperate moment CaSandra tried to escape her unhappiness by swallowing a handful of pills, but instead of escaping the world she no longer wanted to be in she finally found what she was looking for after ending up in a hospital emergency room.
I am really hoping that readers will get the complexity and the complete insanity of my character CaSandra. Even as the Author of 30: The Dragonfly Catcher and the creator of this character I am shocked and amazed at her behavior and the way she thinks!
There are life lessons to be learned from all of my stories and 30: The Dragonfly Catcher is filled with them. You must be someone who is walking that thin line between insanity and genius to truly experience the beauty of my breakout/standout character in this cautionary tale of a woman named #CaSandra who has named herself "The Dragonfly Catcher."
131 pages, ebook
First published November 19, 2014
5 people want to read
About the author
Jacqueline Rainey
11 books85 followersA few years ago while lying in bed with my eyes still closed an idea for a book began to come to me. I was suddenly flooded with the story line for this book, title and all. I was shocked and couldn’t believe it because I had just broken through the worst case of writer’s block that had lasted over fifteen years; and just for a moment I cried tears of joy, but there is so much more to this story.
I had been writing poetry since I was eleven years old and to suddenly have this outlet of creativity just disappear was devastating. But here I am today the Author of four published books “Through Whose Eyes: Rise, Child of God” a book of poems and short-stories and “Toni’s Blues” a tale of domestic violence about a woman who searched for love in the wrong men. “Dark Harmonie” the tale of a gifted woman who goes through a transformation, she is hunted and marked for death because others want what she possesses. “30 The Dragonfly Catcher” My intentions weren’t to make it erotic, but to show just how far some of us will go to punish ourselves or fill a void. My character CaSandra is a fragmented woman with three sides to her personality.
Although I grew up in Massachusetts and my first two books were written there; I'm quick to stay true to my place of birth which is Augusta Georgia, I will always be a Georgia Peach. I’m now an Arizona resident who relocated to this wonderful desert State on a true walk of faith. I had never done anything like it before; I packed up and moved almost three thousand miles away. There has not been a day that I feel that I’ve made a mistake it is quite the opposite I believe I am right where I am supposed to be on this part of my journey.
I hit the Massachusetts foster system at the age of thirteen with my first foster home being the home of a Pastor and his wife. There were other homes that followed sometime with me going in the front door and literally out the back door. One of these homes included the home of a woman who chose to have all the children who entered her home baptized and so I was. Toward the end of my run as a ward of the State of Massachusetts there was Helen Green, who became the mother I always wanted, I miss her very much. I wish she were still here, but she passed many years ago from cancer. I take comfort in knowing that she can see me and has been watching all these years.
After a brief stint in the Army I made my rounds at a number of the Massachusetts Colleges and Universities while struggling with Psych issues which also attributed to my substance abuse and later becoming addicted. I was bruised by my past, but I am no longer a broken woman I have walked through and sometimes crawled fighting to hang on for another day. The memories of child abuse, domestic violence, addiction, and sexual assault are heavy burdens for anyone to bear, but here I stand in God's hand. Even though my journey had not been one of comfort the Lord told me that I should now enjoy the journey.
I fell in love with music first before I began writing poetry. My mother would play music all the time. At the age of eleven I discovered two things; that I could sing and I love to write poetry. I wrote my first love poem at the age of eleven. Music has always been a major force in my life from a very young age taking on many roles helping me to sometimes forget and at other times remember the good and the bad times in my life. Music is the only constant thing that is still a guiding force in my life from my childhood. I wrote all my books to music. Every stroke of the keys on my laptop was made while listening to songs that I felt were influencing my mood and thoughts as I wrote, I even listened to the sad songs that broke my heart and made me cry.
Yes I’m an Author telling stories in ways that no one else can because I add the broken pieces of me to all that I write. All my main characters are females and I love showing that women are strong and survivors, it’s my thing and it’s who I
I had been writing poetry since I was eleven years old and to suddenly have this outlet of creativity just disappear was devastating. But here I am today the Author of four published books “Through Whose Eyes: Rise, Child of God” a book of poems and short-stories and “Toni’s Blues” a tale of domestic violence about a woman who searched for love in the wrong men. “Dark Harmonie” the tale of a gifted woman who goes through a transformation, she is hunted and marked for death because others want what she possesses. “30 The Dragonfly Catcher” My intentions weren’t to make it erotic, but to show just how far some of us will go to punish ourselves or fill a void. My character CaSandra is a fragmented woman with three sides to her personality.
Although I grew up in Massachusetts and my first two books were written there; I'm quick to stay true to my place of birth which is Augusta Georgia, I will always be a Georgia Peach. I’m now an Arizona resident who relocated to this wonderful desert State on a true walk of faith. I had never done anything like it before; I packed up and moved almost three thousand miles away. There has not been a day that I feel that I’ve made a mistake it is quite the opposite I believe I am right where I am supposed to be on this part of my journey.
I hit the Massachusetts foster system at the age of thirteen with my first foster home being the home of a Pastor and his wife. There were other homes that followed sometime with me going in the front door and literally out the back door. One of these homes included the home of a woman who chose to have all the children who entered her home baptized and so I was. Toward the end of my run as a ward of the State of Massachusetts there was Helen Green, who became the mother I always wanted, I miss her very much. I wish she were still here, but she passed many years ago from cancer. I take comfort in knowing that she can see me and has been watching all these years.
After a brief stint in the Army I made my rounds at a number of the Massachusetts Colleges and Universities while struggling with Psych issues which also attributed to my substance abuse and later becoming addicted. I was bruised by my past, but I am no longer a broken woman I have walked through and sometimes crawled fighting to hang on for another day. The memories of child abuse, domestic violence, addiction, and sexual assault are heavy burdens for anyone to bear, but here I stand in God's hand. Even though my journey had not been one of comfort the Lord told me that I should now enjoy the journey.
I fell in love with music first before I began writing poetry. My mother would play music all the time. At the age of eleven I discovered two things; that I could sing and I love to write poetry. I wrote my first love poem at the age of eleven. Music has always been a major force in my life from a very young age taking on many roles helping me to sometimes forget and at other times remember the good and the bad times in my life. Music is the only constant thing that is still a guiding force in my life from my childhood. I wrote all my books to music. Every stroke of the keys on my laptop was made while listening to songs that I felt were influencing my mood and thoughts as I wrote, I even listened to the sad songs that broke my heart and made me cry.
Yes I’m an Author telling stories in ways that no one else can because I add the broken pieces of me to all that I write. All my main characters are females and I love showing that women are strong and survivors, it’s my thing and it’s who I
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January 16, 2015
The true testimonial to an author’s ability to draw attention to their book told in the first person is authenticity. In her previous outing, Rainey drew upon much of her own experiences in Toni's Blues to relay a story of inspired triumph from horrendous physical and emotional abuse.
Also told in the first person and in diary format, 30: The Dragonfly Catcher, is a significant departure from Rainey’s previous work and the delicate and fragile creature called Toni.
The reprehensible trait of the sociopath is very nearly a male-exclusive disorder. However, Rainey explores this phenomenon in a uniquely disturbing and eros-centric way.
CaSandra is a completely self-absorbed woman who looks upon the opposite sex not as men, but as objects to be used for her own sordid gratification. When she’s not referring to them as “dragonflies,” she classifies them with the dismissive phrase, “testosterone and cologne.” A manipulative, narcissistic woman who is usually in control, CaSandra’s disastrous 30-year relationship with a married “dragonfly” ultimately leads to an irreparable personality schism.
As a result, CaSandra, becomes fixated on the number 30. She is burned by 30 “dragonflies.” She will attract 30 “dragonflies” to her home, sending nearly all of them away for “incompatibility” before she will allow the 30th one to succeed in his “begging” in order to perform the carnal ministrations she chooses to direct. She plans only 30 visits to her psychiatrist before she abruptly ends them. She spends 30 days in a coma before regaining consciousness.
As with the number 30 and her references to her prospective male suitors, Rainey employs another Idée Fixe to the plot; that being the moniker, the dragonfly catcher, as the name given to the darkest of personalities within CaSandra. The first one is that of the little girl who caught dragonflies on the porch steps of her Grandfather’s house and the second is CaSandra, herself; a timid, insecure woman who allows this third, a nympho-maniacal personality to assume control over her carnal desires for male companionship. Any male companionship will do, but only on the dragonfly catcher’s overtly seductive and twisted terms.
It’s this last personality that views herself as coming from a “beautiful family.” A family who produced her. The dragonfly catcher, an insatiably voluptuous and irresistible woman—at least in her own mind. A mind that had become darkly egotistical…bordering on the sociopathic.
Until the very end…when she finally crosses the border.
Jacqueline Rainey is an emerging author who definitely commands attention.
Also told in the first person and in diary format, 30: The Dragonfly Catcher, is a significant departure from Rainey’s previous work and the delicate and fragile creature called Toni.
The reprehensible trait of the sociopath is very nearly a male-exclusive disorder. However, Rainey explores this phenomenon in a uniquely disturbing and eros-centric way.
CaSandra is a completely self-absorbed woman who looks upon the opposite sex not as men, but as objects to be used for her own sordid gratification. When she’s not referring to them as “dragonflies,” she classifies them with the dismissive phrase, “testosterone and cologne.” A manipulative, narcissistic woman who is usually in control, CaSandra’s disastrous 30-year relationship with a married “dragonfly” ultimately leads to an irreparable personality schism.
As a result, CaSandra, becomes fixated on the number 30. She is burned by 30 “dragonflies.” She will attract 30 “dragonflies” to her home, sending nearly all of them away for “incompatibility” before she will allow the 30th one to succeed in his “begging” in order to perform the carnal ministrations she chooses to direct. She plans only 30 visits to her psychiatrist before she abruptly ends them. She spends 30 days in a coma before regaining consciousness.
As with the number 30 and her references to her prospective male suitors, Rainey employs another Idée Fixe to the plot; that being the moniker, the dragonfly catcher, as the name given to the darkest of personalities within CaSandra. The first one is that of the little girl who caught dragonflies on the porch steps of her Grandfather’s house and the second is CaSandra, herself; a timid, insecure woman who allows this third, a nympho-maniacal personality to assume control over her carnal desires for male companionship. Any male companionship will do, but only on the dragonfly catcher’s overtly seductive and twisted terms.
It’s this last personality that views herself as coming from a “beautiful family.” A family who produced her. The dragonfly catcher, an insatiably voluptuous and irresistible woman—at least in her own mind. A mind that had become darkly egotistical…bordering on the sociopathic.
Until the very end…when she finally crosses the border.
Jacqueline Rainey is an emerging author who definitely commands attention.
March 22, 2015
The number 30 is significant in many ways in this tale of a woman seeking something more in her life, yet finding roadblocks, often from her own pain, suffering, and disappointments in her past. This story is a grab-hold/page-turner and not lacking in twists, and 'I didn't see that coming' moments.
Well written and deep with passion and emotion, the Dragon Fly Catcher will bring you into her world, and not let go.
Well written and deep with passion and emotion, the Dragon Fly Catcher will bring you into her world, and not let go.
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