title: Color Me Blind: A Divine Love Story (Book One)
author:  Melinda Michelle 
description: Gwendolyn Melinda Michelle Evans (GMME) was born in Jacksonville, Florida. She was raised in Sanford, Florida and was introduced to reading at a young age. She has been a lover of reading since she could put two letters together to form a word. Growing up in a family of readers she was exposed to different genres of writing and developed an eclectic taste in books. She is a graduate of Florida A&amp;M University with a bachelor of science in accounting. She went on to pursue her MBA with a concentration in finance and accounting at American Intercontinental University. She has worked for financial institutions for the past nine years only recently stepping out to write full time. She is the owner and founder of Global Multi Media Enterprise (GMME) a free-lance writing and publishing company. She currently resides in Tallahassee, Florida. Through the encouragement of family and close friends she turned her passion for reading into a passion for writing. She can always be found with a book somewhere within her reach. Once she realized it was a gift from God it was easy to see the purpose behind it. Being able to combine her faith and her passion to tell a good story is something she counts as a blessing. It is her hope and desire that she can shed a positive image on the church, which she feels is viewed negatively by the world because of the actions of a small percentage of Christians. It is her desire to be able to tell a story that connects with Christians but also connects to people who just like to read. She tries to create a captivating story with powerful testimonies about the power of God. Melinda Michelles other published works include the short story You Can Never Leave. It can be found on Amazon in e-book only. Her novel Surviving Sunday is the first of seven in a series. Book two, Monday Madness is due out in the summer of 2013.
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  _Claire’s lover has no tongue. A slave liberated from a heathen temple, Aya
  cannot tell the story of her stolen voice, or of her and Claire’s unfolding
  love. She cannot speak her pain, her joy, or her sorrow. And if she sees that
  which eludes the blind goddess of justice, she cannot bear witness. “In the
  Sight of Akresa” is a tragic fantasy romance from debut author Ray Wood._
  
  
  _This novelette was acquired and edited for Tor.com by acquiring editor[Carl
  Engle-Laird](https://www.tor.com/tags/Edited%20by%20Carl%20Engle-Laird)._
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This is how they took your tongue:
  
  
  There is a wedge, short and made of steel, used to prise apart the teeth. The
  skin on your lips splits as the slave-maker pushes it into your mouth. Hard
  Yovali hands hold you all over, keeping your arms behind your back, your knees
  on the ground, 