Rachel grew up in Dorchester. From a young age, she was never a good
student and she made her friends among the "trouble" kids. She was barely
a teenager when she started on drugs and she was soon dealing to support
her habit. She was arrested when she was 14 for dealing on school
property and sentenced to rehab and 5 years in a junvenile facility.
In the early years in prison she was belligerent and a continual trouble
case. Apparently things went from bad to worse because after 4 years
snapped. She beat a guard, nearly to death, with the handle of the mop
she was using. She was sentenced to 15 more years for that.
When she returned from an extended stint in solitary, word amoung the
guards was that she was broken. For the next 10 years she surrounded
herself with quiet women and never caused trouble again. November 4th,
1997 she was released on good behavior.
Since then, she has found herself a dump in Innman Square to live in and
she works doing night stocking and bagging in the Porter Square Star. She
spends a great deal of time biking (or bumming rides) to Middlesex Fells
where her Familiar lives, or so she says. The familiar is a redtailed
hawk that appears to be about a year old. Once meeting the rest of you,
she will split her free time about evenly, at least at first, between
Liberty and the Fells.
Her avocation appears to be that of a storyteller and collector. She
listens far more than she speaks, and when she talks she invariably has a
story to illustrate her point. When she is formally storytelling, she
tells some stories that she says she learned as a child - Abenaki and
Wampanoag tales of old. But she also tells tales of prison, and of the
people she meets and the things she hears. She often says, "Everything
has a story to teach, if you just listen hard enough."
Avon has done a great job developing stuff for Rachel. It's all right here.
Rachel McCloud is copyright 1999 Avon Russell.
Created as an original character for _The Jehovah Contract_ stories.
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Last update 1-August-99