title: Mountain Reign: A Coming-of-Age Tale
author: Joseph A. Lacy
description: Joseph Lacy, author of To Africa with Love: A Bush Doc's Story, and Prescriptions for Life, enjoys reading and writing inspirational stories. Appalachian characters often find their way into his stories. He is the ordinary coach/ref of some extraordinary kids in the Upward football and basketball leagues in Kentucky. He is currently working on a medical thriller.
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  © 2014 Paris Tosen
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  All rights reserved
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ISBN 978-1-926949-82-6 (eBook)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [www.tosen.ca](http://www.tosen.ca)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  It was the dark of night when the four-wheeled wooden carriage pulled into the
  mountain pass, followed closely by two men in tunics and armor on horses. A
  dark-hooded figure drove the carriage until he reached another hooded figure,
  a kid, by the mountain face with a torch, motioning the torch for the driver
  to go into another direction. The carriage turned sharply, rear wheel running
  over a large rock and nearly flipping over if it hadn’t smashed into the rock
  face and bounced off. With the coast clear, the kid with the torch returned to
  his village.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The carriage pulled into a dimly lit cave, quite large, naturally-formed over
  millions of