5/5 | Puye Prophecy by Gary G. Wise Featured Review Jill Rey July 10, 2025 Author Gary G. Wise opens his newest standalone with a powerful punch. No stranger to creating visceral dreams, Wise leaves our main character, Kat, with a lingering sense of smoke and unease. Quickly jolting readers into Kat’s orbit, “Puye Prophecy” takes us […]
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“Puye Prophecy” – Release Announcement – June 11, 2025 Puye, pronounced Poo-yay, is Tewa Indian for “a place where rabbits gather.” A point of caution: This tale has nothing to do with soft, fluffy, cotton-tail bunny rabbits. Puye is also a place in northern New Mexico where centuries-old Puebloan Cliff Dwellings are located. A high […]
The previous chapter, Thicker Than Blood, brought Kat to a decision: should she leave with Big Crow to live in the spirit realm and raise the baby with him or stay in the human realm without him when he left? The danger of leaving meant walking away from people she loved, like her big sister, […]
The lyrics from an old Southern rock band, …don’t hand me no lies and keep your hands to yourself by the Georgia Satellites, never crossed her mind when Big Crow, totally out of character, embraced her. Little did she know that the feeling in her heart toward him and the desire to embrace him straightaway […]
Kat’s world and her mental state began to unravel as thoughts of losing Big Crow, even though that eventuality was months in the future. The attraction of him being in her life started as an unwelcome presence. Now, it began to evolve as he finally shared details of what powers she possessed because of her […]
Big Crow’s calm demeanor distracted Kat from her hurt and disappointment from Maddie’s tirade and accusations from their phone conversation. She knew he was a spirit, but there was an attraction that became deeper every time they met. In all honesty, the smell of his smoke caused her days to brighten and her heart to […]
Maddie was not very welcoming to Kat’s story update, complaining that her imagination was being stretched beyond her limits. When Kat told her sister that she might have confessed to loving Big Crow, all bets were off, and Maddie climbed into the gutter and made accusatory comments that Kat had managed to get into the […]
Kat knew the pregnancy was over when acute pain and cramping in her abdomen doubled her over. Holding her belly, she crawled out of bed and struggled to the bathroom, expecting to find blood that confirmed a miscarriage. There was none, but the pain told her something was very wrong. Out of desperation, she called […]
Duwit chonah mowna jawneek. That phrase comes up numerous times in “Puye Prophecy,” and it references a “carrier of spirits,” not to the dismay of Katherine Jackson. “There’s no Indian princess spirit in me.” She never wanted to be a part of any of this Indian voodoo and yet she fell into a dream that […]
Back to normal at work did not feel normal at all, especially when Kat felt compelled to bring her boss up to speed; after all, she started the whole dialogue with Cassie before she left on her prophecy journey with a description of a couple of dreams that weren’t story-worthy at that point. Her story […]