Meet Ermione
Copyright sjrenard 2018
Expected Publication: Uncertain.
Ermione is not a story that follows the loudest trends—it listens instead to the quiet places where fear lives: in the body, in instinct, in a mother’s vigilance, in a girl’s longing to be free. It reveals how fear can become a cage, and how, if understood, it can just as powerfully become a guide.
It’s a rare kind of book, and rare books often take longer to find a home.
Ermione glides through the underbrush like a whisper, her sharp intellect and agile maneuvers always strategically alert. She understands fear and mistrust—the way silence hints at lurking predators, the slightest pause that can spell danger. However, her stealth encounters with the towering Big Feet changes everything she knows. She observes a strong scent of fear, like that of prey before the kill, in the adult female as it collapses under an unseen burden, trembling and frail. This is not fear she recognizes; it is something broken in nature.
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Ermione understands fear as a tool for sharpening instincts guiding actions, and ensuring protection. In the Big Feet, however, it warps into control anxiety, and a false sense of safety. Mariah’s mother stifles her daughter with excessive protection, confusing control for care. Mariah, navigating chronic illness while battling the fear of losing her independence, resists her mother’s hold, deepening their divide.
Yet when an unexpected encounter brings the mother, daughter, and wild ermine into close quarters, the wild presence at the heart of their lives begins to unsettle everything each knows about safety and trust.
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And through our art to battle against fear, self-centeredness, and exclusivity of our predominantly narcissistic culture,
David Harbour
and through our craft to cultivate a more empathetic and understanding society by revealing intimate truths
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that serve as a forceful reminder to folks that when they feel broken and afraid and tired, they are not alone.
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We are united in that we are all human beings and we are all together on this horrible, painful, joyous, exciting, and mysterious ride that is being alive.
2017