title: The Wizard's Wish: Or, How He Made the Yuckies Go Away - A Story About the Magic in You
author:  Brad Yates 
description: Brad Yates is co-author of the bestseller Freedom at Your Fingertips and a featured expert in the film The Tapping Solution. He is also a graduate of Ringling Bros. &amp; Barnum &amp; Bailey Clown College, and has performed children's theatre around the world. Brad spends much of his time tapping with people to help them live their best life possible. Sometimes he does this by phone, sometimes in live workshops, and sometimes in videos on YouTube. And sometimes he's learning to play the guitar (or other fun stuff). He lives in Northern California with his wonderful wife and their two magnificent children.
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  # **SHADOWED BY DEATH**
  
  
  CHAPTER ONE
  
  
  The loose sole of my shoe made a thwippity-thwap noise as
  
  
  it slapped against dirt and stone. A dozen steps ahead of me,
  
  
  Master Wendyn called, “This way, Mullins!” before veering down
  
  
  an alley, wizard robes billowing behind.
  
  
  I hiked my robes to my knees and jogged faster. “Are you
  
  
  sure this is right?” I didn’t remember a garbage-filled alley
  
  
  leading to the Conclave. I kicked at some refuse in my path
  
  
  which turned out to be an old tomato; it split and exploded pulp
  
  
  all over my shoe and the hem of my robes. I didn’t have time to
  
  
  stop and clean it off as I jogged to keep up with the master.
  
  
  "You doubt my sense of direction?" He huffed for air and
  
  
  skidded to a halt as the alley let out onto a road.  
  
  
  “If it’s anything like your taste in shirts, yes.” I came
  
  
  to a stop beside him and spun around, taking in my surroundings.
  
  
  A confectionery stood to my right and a bakery to my left. It
  
  
  smelled better here—mo