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Table of Contents
Copyright
2006-8 © Ronald W. Hull
Jason Forsythe
emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb
strikes Washington, DC. He helps four classmates get home
and ends up with more than he bargained for.
Jason Forsythe
emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb
strikes Washington, DC. He helps four classmates get home
and ends up with more than he bargained for.
Jason Forsythe
emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb
strikes Washington, DC. He helps four classmates get home
and ends up with more than he bargained for.
Jason Forsythe
emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb
strikes Washington, DC. He helps four classmates get home
and ends up with more than he bargained for.
Jason Forsythe
emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb
strikes Washington, DC. He helps four classmates get home
and ends up with more than he bargained for.
Jason Forsythe
emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb
strikes Washington, DC. He helps four classmates get home
and ends up with more than he bargained for.
Jason Forsythe
emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb
strikes Washington, DC. He helps four classmates get home
and ends up with more than he bargained for.
Jason Forsythe
emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb
strikes Washington, DC. He helps four classmates get home
and ends up with more than he bargained for.
Jason Forsythe
emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb
strikes Washington, DC. He helps four classmates get home
and ends up with more than he bargained for.
Jason Forsythe
emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb
strikes Washington, DC. He helps four classmates get home
and ends up with more than he bargained for.
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Jason Forsythe
emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb
strikes Washington, DC. He helps four classmates get home
and ends up with more than he bargained for.
Jason Forsythe
emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb
strikes Washington, DC. He helps four classmates get home
and ends up with more than he bargained for.
Jason Forsythe
emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb
strikes Washington, DC. He helps four classmates get home
and ends up with more than he bargained for.
Jason Forsythe
emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb
strikes Washington, DC. He helps four classmates get home
and ends up with more than he bargained for.
Jason Forsythe
emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb
strikes Washington, DC. He helps four classmates get home
and ends up with more than he bargained for.
Jason Forsythe
emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb
strikes Washington, DC. He helps four classmates get home
and ends up with more than he bargained for.
Jason Forsythe
emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb
strikes Washington, DC. He helps four classmates get home
and ends up with more than he bargained for.
Jason Forsythe
emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb
strikes Washington, DC. He helps four classmates get home
and ends up with more than he bargained for.
Jason Forsythe
emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb
strikes Washington, DC. He helps four classmates get home
and ends up with more than he bargained for.
Jason Forsythe
emerges from his shattered physics class after a nuclear bomb
strikes Washington, DC. He helps four classmates get home
and ends up with more than he bargained for.
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Jason comes
home with trepidation. His family gone, he must fend for
himself. Shauna returns to complicate his situation. Finally,
an evacuation order forces him to leave the house and head for the
only family he has left, his grandmother in Mountain Falls.
Chapter 3:
Walking Horror
6/28/05
Gayle Forsythe
survived the blast but had to walk out to save herself. She
assists a former professor to safety. She makes it to a decontamination
station, only to be felled by another malady.
Chapter 4:
The Family Homestead
7/23/05
Jason returned
to the family homestead and his grandmother, Gail Forsythe, to heal.
He spends his time on the mountain, contemplating what he
will do.
Chapter 5:
A Surprise Visitor
7/23/05
Colonel James
Forsythe has survived the bomb in the bunker under the Pentagon.
He surprises his mother and nephew with a short visit. He
reveals his secret assignment to Jason and asks him to join.
Chapter 6:
Joining Up
8/10/05
Jason checks
his email and finds that he is cut off from his friends.
Two envoys from the State Department arrive and Jason and
his Grandmother Gail learn the price they will have to pay for him
to serve.
Chapter 7: The Last Hike
9/5/05
As Jason prepares
to leave for basic training, Grandmother Gail worries about the family
legacy and decides to change her will. A chance meeting with
the lawyer's daughter, Elizabeth, leads to a mountain hike and
an unexpected send off for him.
Chapter 8:
Basic Training
1/19/06
Jason finds
basic training to be what he expected, and relatively easy, except
for an overdose of training gas that put him in the field hospital.
His physical in St. Louis provides an unexpected surprise.
Chapter 9:
The Academy
1/21/06
The mysterious
Academy in some unknown underground destination in the Eastern Mountains
contains one unfamiliar element, Jason's uncle. He has to change
his name to remain anonymous to his task.
Chapter 10:
Special Forces Training
4/18/06
JJ excels in
Special Forces training. He rescues an unlikely friend and faces a
trial in the Northern Sub Arctic that taxes all of his physical strength and
mental ability as he faces off with a curious grizzly.
Chapter 11:
Triumph and Tragedy
5/7/06
JJ graduates
from the Academy and is sent to a cheap hotel in Chicago. A
surprise witrendezvoush his Grandmother Gail is his reward. Gail returns
home, only to come to a tragic end in the hands of escaped convicts.
Chapter 12:
Gayle's Recovery
6/4/06
With the help
of Dr. Jonathan Chambers, Gayle gradually recovers her memory. She
falls in love with Chambers, but he dies when he learns Gayle is having
his baby. Gayle returns to Reston, only to learn of her Grandmother's
death from her Uncle.
Chapter 13:
Up by the Bootstraps
6/18/06
Returning from
his night with his grandmother, JJ realizes that he is on his own. He
starts working for an Internet cafe an uncovers a thief and potential
terrorist. Carl, his roommate, joins the Vespers and disappears.
JJ decides to follow.
Chapter 14:
Joining the Vespers
7/22/06
The next spring,
JJ cashes in his savings and leaves Chicago for Central Wisconsin and
the Vespers. What he finds is a Roman Catholic personality cult
with followers leading a medieval lifestyle of serfdom. Sinister
feelings surround the cult that he can pick up on but not decipher yet.
Chapter 15:
Understanding the Man
8/1/06
JJ keeps his
head down and works hard, alert to the sinister control Pius One has on
his pions. He learns of his Holiness' hedonistic side and discovers
cameras and bugs everywhere. His ability quickly earns him the name
of Amos Six and work on the electronic infrastructure of the cathedral.
Chapter 16:
All Saints Eve
8/4/06
Amos Six prepares
the unfinished cathedral for the Halloween service. As the time
approaches, Pius One uses increasingly stronger methods to drive weak
pions away. Amos Six uncovers something left by Carl that confirms
his suspicions. At midnight, Pius One reveals a side that runs a
chill through his followers and seals their fate.
Chapter 17:
Family Reunion
8/6/06
Shauna Wilson
and her son, Jason, return to Reston to sell her Mother's house, only to
find it in shambles. With Gayle's help, they enter the house to find
that someone has been living there. They stake the place out, only
to find that the intruder is Becky Fulton, Shauna's high school friend, now
homeless.
Chapter 18:
Vespers at the Vespers
9/4/06
Amos Six is
given responsibility to prepare Thanksgiving and Christmas Vespers
televised program support in the Great Hall of the Cathedral under the
tutelage of Elijah One. Pius One's largesse backfires and he punishes
nearly half of the pions for over indulging in the feast. Heavy snow
softens the sharp, red edges of the deed.
Chapter 19: A
New Year and Role
9/10/06
Elijah One
receives an impossible request from his old friend, Pius One, and is glad
that he is leaving the order. He confides his dreams and fears with
Amos Six, letting him know that he has caught the eye of the One. Together
they pull off a Mardi Gras style New Year sevice. Amos Six is promoted
to the brotherhood.
Chapter 20: The
Brotherhood
10/1/06
With Elijah
gone, it is up to Amos Two to produce the weekly satellite broadcast. With
Pius One gone to the four corners of the Earth, his work is logistically
difficult. On the way to the Cathedral one day, Amos Two saves a deer
from a pack of dogs and finds out that there are women at the Vespers--at
least the doctor in the inner compound, is.
Chapter 21: Full
Circle
10/22/06
In the year
since he had come to the Vespers, Amos Two had come far, from pion to trusted
brother, and changed his name to reflect it. His willingness to tackle
diffiicult assignments and keep his nose clean has caught Pius One's eye.
Finally, late one spring night, he is told that he has passed the test
and will become a member of the inner sanctum. But is he ready?
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