Phantom Limb
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One evening, Gillis--a young Scottish minister who technically doesn't believe in God--falls into a hole left by a recently uprooted elm tree and discovers an ancient disembodied hand buried in the soil.
He's about to rebury it when the hand... beckons to him.
Gillis takes it back to his manse and gives it pen and paper, whereupon it begins to sketch scratchy, anarchic visions. Somewhere in the hand's deep history lies a story of the Scottish Reformation, of art and violence, and of its long-dead owner.
But for Gillis, there lies only opportunity.
He reinvents himself as a prophet, proclaims the hand a miracle, and uses it for reasons both sacred and profane--to impress his ex-girlfriend and to lead himself, and perhaps his country, out of inertia and into a dynamic, glorious future.
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