BLOODLINES
By Paula K. Parker
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Ladies and gentlemen of the gallery. Before you are three condemned men. You are here to witness their execution.
Jake and Joey are brothers in crime. They are also brothers in life; tied together by the blood that flows through their veins. But while they share the same blood, they don’t share the same vision. Jake is a hard man, and getting harder. Joey has a softer side, and that could present a problem for Jake and the rest of their ‘family.
The brothers have spent years recruiting street kids into their family of pickpockets and con artists. But while on the biggest score of their career, Joey finally does something he’s wanted to do his whole life. He stands up to Jake, and the repercussions take an unexpected twist as Joey learns a whole new meaning for the word, ‘family.’
“Jake was right. Being part of a family is important. It’s in the blood,” says Joey, the central character in Bloodlines.
Jake was right – in more ways than he knew. Bottom line is, we are all part of a family, the family of man, a family with a vast capacity for love and compassion, vision and passion, grace and beauty. And we all have common blood running through our veins. The problem is, that common blood is tainted; has been since the Fall. How else do you explain our equally vast capacity for hate and violence, fear and selfishness, cruelty and suspicion?
We’ve all been given the magnificent gift of free will; the gift of causation. Some gleefully choose to use this gift for self-glorification or self-gratification. Some use this gift for selfless dedication to the betterment of mankind. But ultimately we all choose to misuse this gift. We all stumble. And fall. We can’t help ourselves. It’s in the blood.
What we need is a transfusion of fresh, untainted blood flowing through our veins.