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Chapter 16 (Rusted Ashes Cemetary) The rest of the house was just as lavishly decorated as the front, Christian noticed, as they were led through to the back.  In his heart, he hoped the back had been untouched by this nightmare that claimed the rest of the city.  “Let it be as beautiful as the [...]

Chapter 1   2:02 A.M.       Bel Air, West Los Angeles, California She booted her laptop in the basement four stories below her room on the top floor, opened the vault program, connected to the vault’s computer, activated her decryption software and deactivated the alarm. Then the combination to the keypad which was located on [...]

THE ESCAPE FROM CHAPTER 15 Father Burke took the hand offered him and shook it. “Don’t speak anything of it, my son.” A twinge of regret seemed to come to his eye, the same sort of look that had befallen the nun. Something strange had occurred here, and even the priest seemed to suspect it. [...]

The Persian Gambit EUGENE BULL The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is co-incidental and not intended by the author. Ours is no bloody battle With woe and horror fraught Our joust is of a gentler kind A measuring of Mind with Mind A tournament [...]

Chapter Eight: CHOLESTEROL The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Most of you certainly know about cholesterol. Cholesterol is terrible. Awful for the body. We’d be better off without it! Right? Wrong. The truth is, cholesterol is one of the building blocks to our cells. Every cell in our body has cholesterol in it, including [...]

Book One Ratiba 1966 I had wanted an old time, authentic wedding, with Ibrahim riding through his village on horseback. You can’t get more romantic than that, I thought. Ibrahim laughed at me, claiming I was the only person he’d ever met who’d want such an outmoded ceremony, telling me I was a contradiction of [...]

On a country road four miles north of the small farming town of Harvard Nebraska, a black Dooley pickup sat on a forgotten dirt lateral road once used by local farmers. Traffic had largely been rerouted to roads maintained by the county, in recent years, so the isolated back road was rarely used. The truck [...]

Chapter 1 August 1945 Charles Devonshire paced the deck of the ocean liner he’d boarded sixteen days before. His shoes clacked along the wooden planks while he dodged passengers and scanned the horizon for approaching vessels that might have his father aboard. Once again, he saw nothing except rippling water and frothy whitecaps under the [...]

Chapter 16: Only One Way? Christianity is well known for its claims that Jesus is the only way to God.  This claim is based on numerous biblical passages, including John 14:6b, where Jesus is quoted as saying: I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.[i] [...]

After breakfast Luna, my 9 year old Tibetan Terrier, runs to the door that leads to the back deck whenever I approach it.  She knows that soon we need to go feed the fish.  After several false alarms, the moment finally arrives when I open the door. She races down the stairs, banks around the [...]