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Sarah Burning

By: Tim Ritter
Narrated by: Tiffany Rene Samples
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Acrid smoke filled the valley with the odors of a burnt home, burnt hopes, burnt dreams, burnt flesh.

On a cold night, in the short span of less than five minutes, the Ritter family crossed a threshold from which there was no return. Peaceful slumber in the early morning hours of October 27, 1959, quickly became madness and horror. Cruel blue, orange, and yellow flames leapt high into the air, casting an eerie glow on three blackened and blistered survivors huddled on the ground under a towering oak. Barely visible, save for the ever-present mist emanating from their nostrils as they panted and shivered, they suffered together in a singular wailing cry. Nearby, barely conscious, broken, and bleeding in the bottom of the overgrown and thorny ravine, lay another blackened and burned survivor. Worst of all, among the horrifying remains of the once-proud simple farmhouse, somewhere beneath the blaze and collapsed beams, lay two burning bodies, their screams at last silenced.

How do you continue with life when you’ve lost everything? How do you face each day when you know it means more pain from the burns? How do you get past the guilt, knowing you lived and others died? How do you silence the echo in your head, the sound of him screaming your name as he burned alive?

After more than 60 years, the story of the survivors is ready to be told…

You’re invited to learn the history of this real-life tragedy, within the minutes of Sarah Burning.

©2021 Timothy L Ritter (P)2021 Timothy L Ritter
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A piece of Ozarks history

I really enjoyed this well written, heart rending story of a Missouri family deviated by a house fire. Ritter does a great job of helping us get to know the family - his family - as he brings each one to a heart warming finish.

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