End of Days Series

End of Days Series

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Here is a collection of shorts based upon the End Of Days, told by those who recorded the event. AUTHOR'S NOTES: MYLAR - This short is a bit dark, like Hemingway's reference to rain. But factually, this short comes from a place of beauty. I was waiting for a friend in his back yard, sitting on a webbed chair and looking up through the tree branches. I could make out this beautiful circular rainbow around the sun and pulled out my phone and captured what you see here. The science behind it is when high thin cirrus clouds contain ice crystals that refract the light. So I sat there and continued to look up with the sun hidden behind the trees and that's when my mind began to wander. Yes, the burden of a sci-fi writer..... --O-- VIEW FROM MY KITCHEN - this short was inspired by a friend's Facebook profile picture update. One of Ann's favorite spots on Earth, where she and her family spend a week each fall. Of course my interpretation of it was much darker... but thats what I do best, it seems.... UNDER EDEN: The third short was inspired from a fellow G+'r, Mark Lynch (Lynchy), who posted a beautiful sunset of his street. It moved me and I knew the story to come with it belonged here. Thanks Mark for the image and please extend a thanks to your wife for the 'squib' reference... I'm still laughing...... REGRETS, BUT ONE: When I started this series, I had written the first three from my perspective. All three ended on a, "no regrets" positive note... pretty much because, if the world were to end tomorrow, I have been pretty happy with my life. That got me thinking, so I asked some friends if they were faced with an end of world scenario, how would they feel. A friend of mine had somewhat of a different view, a bit comically vindictive, so here it is.....
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A homeless man discovers a mysterious box which transports him back to his childhood. On each side of the box, both inside and out, a new world reveals itself to him: He experiences another man's worst day of luck. An old, dying man befriends an alien creature and shares an inexplicable bond. A unique blanket helps a young woman in a time of crisis. Another man's grief of losing his dying wife is tempered by a ghostly haunting. The first manned mission to Mars reveals a personal past for one colonist. An Indian Brave concludes a ritual as a rite of passage to adulthood. The end of the world brings a woman and her ailing father together for the last time. A man has an opportunity to right one wrong from his past and realizes the true meaning of regret. Another man's senses are replaced one by one with something alien. A golfer in the aftermath of the apocalypse sets out on a quest to keep the game he loves alive. A conversation between two sides of one man's psyche reveals something in us all. A snowbound woman holds the fate of the world literally in her hands. Once all sides of the box are revealed, the homeless man discovers the promise of a new future built on memories from a past he never had. The Box Has Twelve Sides is a collection of thirteen stories all connected as visions given to a homeless man in search of his future. I will be posting each story as a chapter every few days until all are published and the book marked as complete. Please check back and pick up the next story in the overall arc.

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