Ashes, Ashes, Don't Fall Down

by Elizabeth Rowan Keith

Dedicated to those who have been trapped in abuse, this is a short story of one girl's survival. Escaping into books, she is able to endure until she reaches adulthood, when she walks out of her troubling past and into the promise of her own future. Along with a mantra taken from a nursery rhyme, and the companionship of fictitious and biographical characters of Nancy Drew, Laura Ingalls, Anne Shirley, Clara Barton, Florence Nightingale, Harriet Tubman, Charles Dickens, and George Washington Carver, she navigates her way to freedom.

10 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 14, 2013