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Chapter 20 Chapter Twenty of The Ancients of Eden, written and read by Lucian Player Listen or download this chapter using the player above.   Written Excerpt Dwayne nodded his head in agreement. “Yeah… I know.” Then he looks out the front window at the sun, which is about halfway down the horizon and dropping fast. “But that’s not really what I meant. We started this trip over a year ago. I’ve had lots of time to think about how I ended up here.” He sits back again and takes another long sip of Scotch. He could feel the old emotions starting to rise – fueled by the post-trauma stress and the alcohol. “It’s not my bad judgment and bad decisions that I’m talking about.” Marshall raises his eyebrows at him, as the cigar tip glows bright red sticking out the corner of his mouth. Dwayne sees his interest is piqued, and even though he doesn’t know what Marshall’s political inclination is, he decides to forge ahead anyway. “It was actually the President that I’m talking about – well, the last one. The one who screwed up the Katrina disaster.” Now Marshall is interested. He had his own experiences with that particular man. And they weren’t good. “How so?” “I was the lead attorney that won the class action suit against the government. I did that by showing that the President made bad judgments and decisions during that crisis.” “I remember hearing about that. But I was always wondering how that worked. I mean, a couple of thousand people died, but how’d you get a jury to find him responsible for that?” Dwayne takes a long puff and slowly exhales. “I didn’t. The settlement went to the victims of Katrina. All of them from every state got some. But lawsuit was over the Port of New Orleans – not the people” This caused Marshall to stop for a moment. “The Port?” Dwayne smiles a little. Nobody thought he had a chance with the lawsuit. And then he won the massive settlement. Then the legal pundits chimed in. And their conclusion was: his strategy truly was a stroke of genius. Next Chapter Jay-L confronts the President again .

Chapter 20 Chapter Twenty of The Ancients of Eden, written and read by Lucian Player Listen or download this chapter using the player above.   Written Excerpt Dwayne nodded his head in agreement. “Yeah… I know.” Then he looks out the front window at the sun, which is about halfway down the horizon and dropping fast. “But that’s not really what I meant. We started this trip over a year ago. I’ve had lots of time to think about how I ended up here.” He sits back again and takes another long sip of Scotch. He could feel the old emotions starting rise – fueled by the post-trauma stress and the alcohol. “It’s not my bad judgment and bad decisions that I’m talking about.” Marshall raises his eyebrows at him, as the cigar tip glows bright red sticking out the corner of his mouth. Dwayne sees his interest is piqued, and even though he doesn’t know what Marshall’s political inclination is, he decides to forge ahead anyway. “It was actually the President that I’m talking about – well, the last one. The one who screwed up the Katrina disaster.” Now Marshall is interested. He had his own experiences with that particular man. And they weren’t good. “How so?” “I was the lead attorney that won the class action suit against the government. I did that by showing that the President made bad judgments and decisions during that crisis.” “I remember hearing about that. But I was always wondering how that worked. I mean, a couple of thousand people died, but how’d you get a jury to find him responsible for that?” Dwayne takes a long puff and slowly exhales. “I didn’t. The settlement went to the victims of Katrina. All of them from every state got some. But lawsuit was over the Port of New Orleans – not the people” This caused Marshall to stop for a moment. “The Port?” Dwayne smiles a little. Nobody thought he had a chance with the lawsuit. And then he won the massive settlement. Then the legal pundits chimed in. And their conclusion was: his strategy truly was a stroke of genius. Next Chapter Jay-L confronts the President again .

Chapter 19 Chapter Nineteen of The Ancients of Eden, written and read by Lucian Player Listen or download this chapter using the player above. Written Excerpt “The main memory core is starting to erase. He’s shutting down the whole system! We’re locked out.” Director Martin runs over to the nearest console and starts typing in codes. Nothing he does is helping. The Vice President turns to the group of Generals standing behind them. “Get me a military team and find that prick—” The alarm sounds again. This time it goes for almost ten seconds. When it stops, Jay-L is already talking. “Mr. President. You’d better get a hold of your Fat Little Penguin—” “Who the hell do you think you are telling me what to do?” The President was getting angry now. “I’ll tell you who I am. I’m the man who controls your future right now.” Jay-L slightly raises his volume. “So let me repeat myself. You better get your evil little side-kick under control right now… And here’s why. You signed a legal Treaty with a Sovereign Nation to give you the ability to spy on every other country in the world. If you break that contract, then I’ll take back the computer and everything on it, which is what I’m doing right now.” Then he leans in really close to the camera again. “But if you attempt to stop me from executing my legal rights under this Treaty, or if you attempt to come after me or my computer… then I will consider that an act of war!” Next Chapter Marshall and Dwayne have a scotch and a cigar on the boat

Chapter 19 Chapter Nineteen of The Ancients of Eden, written and read by Lucian Player Listen or download this chapter using the player above. Written Excerpt “The main memory core is starting to erase. He’s shutting down the whole system! We’re locked out.” Director Martin runs over to the nearest console and starts typing in codes. Nothing he does is helping. The Vice President turns to the group of Generals standing behind them. “Get me a military team and find that prick—” The alarm sounds again. This time it goes for almost ten seconds. When it stops, Jay-L is already talking. “Mr. President. You’d better get a hold of your Fat Little Penguin—” “Who the hell do you think you are telling me what to do?” The President was getting angry now. “I’ll tell you who I am. I’m the man who controls your future right now.” Jay-L slightly raises his volume. “So let me repeat myself. You better get your evil little side-kick under control right now… And here’s why. You signed a legal Treaty with a Sovereign Nation to give you the ability to spy on every other country in the world. If you break that contract, then I’ll take back the computer and everything on it, which is what I’m doing right now.” Then he leans in really close to the camera again. “But if you attempt to stop me from executing my legal rights under this Treaty, or if you attempt to come after me or my computer… then I will consider that an act of war!” Next Chapter Marshall and Dwayne have a scotch and a cigar on the boat

Chapter 18 Chapter Eighteen of The Ancients of Eden, written and read by Lucian Player Listen or download this chapter using the player above. Written Excerpt “Sir, do not attempt to cross the moat… “I can hear him just fine!” The President of the University of Miami informs the brightly colored Guard. Then he yells past him toward Jay-L. “Mr. Farnsworth, I am over this nonsense and I’m not going to stand for this anymore…” The President starts walking toward the shallow black concrete trench with the sparkles in it. He didn’t notice the solid stone sentry columns that sat every ten meters around the perimeter of the Research Park. But they notice him. The sphere shaped top of the two sentry columns that were flanking the area that the angry University President was approaching, swing silently toward their prey. They have long since locked onto the moving target. As the president crosses the bright Yellow line that was painted on the street where the University property abuts the former Golf Community, the lasers in the Sentry heads fire a silent and invisible set of beams across the path directly in front of the Head Administrator of the adjacent University. President John Smitt freezes in his tracks. The high-energy laser beams are hitting a few feet away from him inside the shallow ditch made of a special energy absorbing concrete. It is actually the purpose of the special moat that now surrounds the entire perimeter of the once beautiful and exclusive country club golf course. The lasers make a crackling sound as the nano-material absorbs the laser energy and re-directs it as static charge. As a thin sheet of smoke begins to form above the sparkling concrete, the normally invisible lasers form a perfect X a short distance in front of the wide-eyed President’s feet. The entire surface surrounding the twin laser impact zone is now electrified with enough static Tazer charge to even impress the Orange County Florida Sheriff’s Office. But that’s 300 miles north of here. In Orlando. They are in Miami – or Coral Gables actually Next Chapter Jay-L versus the President of the U.S. and the NSA

Chapter Eighteen of The Ancients of Eden, written and read by Lucian “Sir, do not attempt to cross the moat… “I can hear him just fine!” The President of the University of Miami informs the brightly colored Guard. Then he yells past him toward Jay-L. “Mr. Farnsworth, I am over this nonsense and I’m not going to stand for this anymore…” The President starts walking toward the shallow black concrete trench with the sparkles in it. He didn’t notice the solid stone sentry columns that sat every ten meters around the perimeter of the Research Park. But they notice him. The sphere shaped top of the two sentry columns that were flanking the area that the angry University President was approaching, swing silently toward their prey. They have long since locked onto the moving target. As the president crosses the bright Yellow line that was painted on the street where the University property abuts the former Golf Community, the lasers in the Sentry heads fire a silent and invisible set of beams across the path directly in front of the Head Administrator of the adjacent University. President John Smitt freezes in his tracks. The high-energy laser beams are hitting a few feet away from him inside the shallow ditch made of a special energy absorbing concrete. It is actually the purpose of the special moat that now surrounds the entire perimeter of the once beautiful and exclusive country club golf course. The lasers make a crackling sound as the nano-material absorbs the laser energy and re-directs it as static charge. As a thin sheet of smoke begins to form above the sparkling concrete, the normally invisible lasers form a perfect X a short distance in front of the wide-eyed President’s feet. The entire surface surrounding the twin laser impact zone is now electrified with enough static Tazer charge to even impress the Orange County Florida Sheriff’s Office. But that’s 300 miles north of here. In Orlando. They are in Miami – or Coral Gables actually

Chapter 17 Chapter Seventeen of The Ancients of Eden, written and read by Lucian Player Listen or download this chapter using the player above. Written Excerpt Now as Luke and Marshall made their way to the bottom corridor of the vessel, Luke chatted casually. “Those folding berths in the guest quarters look an awful lot like the sleeping berths on a nuclear submarine. Did you know that?” “Let me guess, more Military Channel?” Marshall was thinking that somebody at the Pentagon ought to check out those guys over at the Military Channel. There seems to be way too much information leaking out of the cable television sets in the country – information that used to take the lives of spies to obtain. And now it seems you could just set your TIVO and become a military expert – well almost. Luke just laughs. “You should check it out. You’d be surprised what kind of information is floating around out there.” The door to the hyperbaric chamber was still latched open against the side bulkhead. Luke went in first. “I’ll set down the sleeping cots from the wall. We can put the kids on them and keep their IV’s on the latch above the bed.” He stopped a little past the panel that Marshall had used to control the hyperbaric oxygen and lower the pressure. Marshall stops and turns around as he bends over to set the chamber for the same setting they had earlier. He starts to tell Luke what he is doing – he’ll show him which knobs, too. “OK, I’ll set the gas mixture. Almost pure oxygen and half atmospheric pressure, right?” Marshall turns back around and looks up to show Luke what he’s doing. He didn’t see Luke standing there, like he expected. What he saw was Luke opening the door at the far end of the long radiation shielded pressure tube. Before Marshall can react, Luke has the door open. Marshall jumps up and sprints to the other end of the chamber. He’s cursing himself for not putting a lock on this pressure door as well. It had never seemed necessary. Anyone inside had already passed the keypad security. And anyone coming from the other direction would— He didn’t have time to finish his thought. Before he can reach him, Luke jumps into the room on the other side of the door. Marshall gets to the door in time to see Luke stand up from the seven step leap. Luke was standing on a platform over another small flight of stairs that went down to the bottom of the boat. Where there should have been a pair of gigantic diesel engines, there were instead Next Chapter Marisse makes a satellite telephone call

Chapter Seventeen of The Ancients of Eden, written and read by Lucian

Chapter 16 Chapter Sixteen of The Ancients of Eden, written and read by Lucian Player Listen or download this chapter using the player above. Written Excerpt Yes Marissé had managed to make friends. Marissé had managed to stay innocent. Marissé had managed not to get married, and pregnant, and hidden away by some greedy man wanting to horde her beauty. Marissé had also managed to get a high school degree – and a scholarship to the University of Miami. When she would enter the University as a Freshman, she knew immediately what she would do – and where she would go – and what she would study– and what degree she would have when she left this amazing place of knowledge that she’d now entered. What she did not know was how to get along with all of the spoiled rotten American jerks that surrounded her now in this brand new University life-experience. But the scholarship included and paid for a dorm room, and she was going to take advantage of it. Even though her mother still lived in the city. And even though she could have found a way to take the public transportation system to and from class, both her and her mother decided the smartest thing for her to do – would be to live in the dorm. No distractions from home – or the old neighborhood – would interfere with her studies. However, neither of them considered what it would be like to find a room-mate. Not just a room-mate, but a room-mate that would be capable of tolerating Marissé. And more importantly, a room-mate that Marissé would NOT kill. Marissé’s flair for personal temper and her well known abilities to defend herself quickly became the source of legend among the Freshman Coed Dorm. Her room-mates for the first two months of the semester, flowed in and out of her room like a breeze from the Atlantic. It was actually quite humorous. There were two weeks where the number of days in the week equaled the number of room-mates she went through. The Dormitory Monitors didn’t have a clue what was happening. No one who wanted out of the room would say anything – other than they had to leave – and they had to leave now. And that’s all that they would say Next Chapter Luke and Marshall visit the bottom of the boat again

Chapter Sixteen of The Ancients of Eden, written and read by Lucian

Chapter 15 Chapter Fifteen of The Ancients of Eden, written and read by Lucian Player Listen or download this chapter using the player above. Written Excerpt The fat-boy-with-braces was sure the adults here were stupid. It was the children who were the ones who felt like they were in charge. The adults who were at the testing facility never felt like they were in control of anything. They never had any idea what the hell was going on around them. Most of them were just baby-sitters with side-arms. They were not teachers or educators – mostly just test monitors. There were no verbal questions or clarifications that would be asked during these tests – by anyone. And the layers of secrecy surrounding the program made sure nobody on the staff talked among themselves. The only consistent factor became the kids. Certain kids stuck around. Most of the others did not. Kids who stuck around got to be known. They kept coming back for more and more tests. And this particular testing facility was one of the few that had The Legend show up at it. And he did it on a pretty regular basis. At least that’s what the fat-boy-with-braces had heard. And that’s all that anybody really did when it came to The Legend – hear things. The Legend only came in by himself. And rarely did anyone else get to see him. He always tested alone – always. Nobody else was ever even allowed in the room with him. The fat-boy-with-braces had spoken to a girl at lunch on the last testing day a week ago, who said she had seen him after a test session. She said he looked like he’d been at the beach. This caused the small group of kids at the lunch table to gasp quietly while everyone eaves-dropped on the girl’s story. The gasps were because the tests that all of the students had been taking over the months they had been coming here – were very hard tests. Even the kids in this cafeteria, who have all passed the tests, did not fly through them. They took effort, and studying – if you were trying to do well on them. But not The Legend… It was only stories – but the stories were amazing. He’d never missed a question. Nobody had ever scored a perfect score on so many exams. Nobody has ever gotten close to his scores. He finishes in half the time. He takes the test in pen. He never checks his answers. And he never talks – to anyone – ever. The rumors were all true. This is why the CIA does not employ children. Next Chapter Marisse grows up and starts college in Miami

Chapter Fifteen of The Ancients of Eden, written and read by Lucian

Chapter 14 Chapter Fourteen of The Ancients of Eden, written and read by Lucian Player Listen or download this chapter using the player above. Written Excerpt Next Chapter

Chapter Fourteen of The Ancients of Eden, written and read by Lucian

Chapter 13 Chapter Thirteen of The Ancients of Eden, written and read by Lucian Player Listen or download this chapter using the player above. Written Excerpt Next Chapter

Chapter Thirteen of The Ancients of Eden, written and read by Lucian

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Chapter Nine of The Ancients of Eden, written and read by Lucian

Chapter Nine of The Ancients of Eden, written and read by Lucian Click here to listen to the MP3 recording of Lucian reading The Ancients of Eden - Chapter 09 Shameless begging - Call and leave feedback, or a comment, or a question for Lucian’s Solutions - 831-307-6143 - This is a U.S. number but may be reached by anyone in the world - Subscribe or Leave a Comment on iTunes Music Credit: Derek K. Miller Clouds or Smoke @ penmachine.com You can also buy Derek s album Penmachine Sessions at iTunes. - TTFN -

It's the end of the world as we know it. And at Dean's Bar, its business as usual. Until a young man on the verge of hysterics comes in to disturb the peace of just another day for these four old friends. Dirty Cricket Presents A Jeph Porter Film Staring Andy Gwyn - Frank Elliott Fredland - Sam Jim Volkober - Booby Frank Platis - Dean Steven Montague - Brent Producer by Jamison Acker Director of Photography Andy Patch Edited by Alison Swank Original Music - Derek Porter

Chapter Eight of The Ancients of Eden, written and read by Lucian

Chapter Eight of The Ancients of Eden, written and read by Lucian Click here to listen to the MP3 recording of Lucian reading The Ancients of Eden - Chapter 08 Shameless begging - Call and leave feedback, or a comment, or a question for Lucian’s Solutions - 831-307-6143 - This is a U.S. number but may be reached by anyone in the world - Subscribe or Leave a Comment on iTunes Music Credit: Derek K. Miller Clouds or Smoke @ penmachine.com You can also buy Derek s album Penmachine Sessions at iTunes. - TTFN -

Chapter Seven of The Ancients of Eden, written and read by Lucian Click here to listen to the MP3 recording of Lucian reading The Ancients of Eden - Chapter 07 Shameless begging - Call and leave feedback, or a comment, or a question for Lucian’s Solutions - 831-307-6143 - This is a U.S. number but may be reached by anyone in the world - Subscribe or Leave a Comment on iTunes Music Credit: Derek K. Miller Clouds or Smoke @ penmachine.com You can also buy Derek s album Penmachine Sessions at iTunes. - TTFN -

Chapter Seven of The Ancients of Eden, written and read by Lucian

Chapter Six of The Ancients of Eden, written and read by Lucian

Chapter Six is set on December 19, 2012 aboard the custom luxury yacht of Dwayne Boudreaux and his family in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Click here to listen to the MP3 recording of Lucian reading The Ancients of Eden - Chapter 06 Shameless begging - Call and leave feedback, or a comment, or a question for Lucian’s Solutions - 831-307-6143 - This is a U.S. number but may be reached by anyone in the world - Subscribe or Leave a Comment on iTunes Music Credit: Derek K. Miller Clouds or Smoke @ penmachine.com You can also buy Derek s album Penmachine Sessions at iTunes. - TTFN -

Chapter Five is set on December 19, 2012 aboard the custom luxury fishing yacht of Marshall Tomkin in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. This is current time in the story and this chapter introduces two of the main characters.

Chapter Five is set on December 19, 2012 aboard the custom luxury fishing yacht of Marshall Tomkin in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. This is current time in the story and this chapter introduces two of the main characters. Click here to listen to the MP3 recording of Lucian reading The Ancients of Eden - Chapter 05 Shameless begging - Call and leave feedback, or a comment, or a question for Lucian’s Solutions - 831-307-6143 - This is a U.S. number but may be reached by anyone in the world - Subscribe or Leave a Comment on iTunes Music Credit: Derek K. Miller Clouds or Smoke @ penmachine.com You can also buy Derek s album Penmachine Sessions at iTunes. - TTFN -

Chapter Four is set in 1989 AD in the Guatemala in Central America. This is one of my favorite chapters

Bonus Chapter. Chapter Four is set in 1989 AD in the Guatemala in Central America. This is one of my favorite chapters.. Click here to listen to the MP3 recording of Lucian reading The Ancients of Eden - Chapter 04 Shameless begging - Call and leave feedback, a comment or a question for Lucian’s Solutions - US 831-307-6143 - Subscribe or Leave a Comment on iTunes Music Credit: Derek K. Miller Clouds or Smoke @ penmachine.com You can also buy Derek s album Penmachine Sessions at iTunes. - TTFN -