The Magician's Hand - Prologue

            So Shay once told me that I should do what Daniel's doing, and post my story while I write it, I finally followed her up on that and here is the prologue for the book I will reveal as mine. (Please post comments, observations or questions.)

                 
                                                                         Prologue
                
               It was summer vacation, for some. Most children would play and rejoice at being out of school, but not him. He was still being put to toil, his name was Josiah. He was 12 years old at this time, and had little (if any) education, and yet, he was the smartest on the street. Coming from a poor family, he did not have a school to go to, but yet he could do mathematics just as well as a senior in college. Also, he could bedazzle anyone with a flick of the hand, for with a flick of the hand, anything small could appear. Not only did he do this naturally, as he did, but once this ability was realized, he started studying it. And after studying extensively the art of magic tricks, he began to invent his own.
               He had 2 siblings: an older sister, Mary-Ann, who was 15, and a younger brother, Brian who was 7. As much as he loved his family, He isolated himself from them to study magic. He would soon come to regret this. The next year, the year of 1997, Josiah was 13, and his family perished in a house fire.
               He was sent to the orphanage, for he had no close relatives. He never quite grew comfortable at the orphanage, even with how kind the other children could be. With no family, still no education, and now, no friends, magic became his only love.
               And so it became an addiction, like a drug he could never stop taking. Every day there was a new trick to be made. By the age of 14, he knew over 500 tricks. Each one was sleek, there was not a single one that anyone could figure out.
               This fact made him many enemies in the orphanage, even with how tough the others could be, Josiah would always outsmart them using tricks, especially a trick he called "Teleportation." How this trick worked was, and never can be, revealed, but the effect was shocking. He would throw a blanket over the offender, and by the count of 3, they could be on the complete other side of the building. It was not long before people started to cease to believe him a trickster, and start to believe him, not only a trick magician, but a true magician, with true power...

To be continued on Saturday, Nov. 20, with "Ch. 1: Clubs & Hammers"