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The Abjurist: A novel of abjuring the realm
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 4 2026
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In medieval England, a condemned man could escape execution by confessing his crime, taking up a cross, and walking a road to the sea. He left the realm forever. Only the guilty could abjure. The innocent stood trial.
Walt Crenshaw is not innocent. He was dead once. Then the Voice spoke and he wasn't. That was thirty-one years ago in a lawn chair under the stars.
He is seventy-five now. Former Marine. Emphysema. A subsidized apartment in West Texas. A Bible open to John 15. A shelf of herbs. A bottle of wine. A neighbor who won't stop banging on the door. And a letter from the VA demanding he report for a medical examination he has no intention of attending.
Walt is not confused. He is not stubborn. He is resting on the Vine.
The system has a protocol for non-compliance. It does not have a protocol for abjuration.
The Abjurist is twenty-five chapters of what it looks like when a man decides the sensory operating system is not his government - and holds that position while the VA processes him, his believing son tries to reach him, a good doctor writes a note he didn't ask for, and a woman three doors down prays a rosary he doesn't know about.
This is not a healing testimony. This is not inspirational fiction. This is a portrait of governance - spare, honest, and unresolved in the way that faith lived in a seventy-five-year-old body is always unresolved.
The flesh has influence. It has no authority.
The Bridegroom is seated. The seat next to Him is yours.
Abjure the realm.
The branch does not produce. The branch bears.
Lazarus didn't fill out a card.
The stubbornest church you ever heard of doesn't take an offering.
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