Introduction: The Nephilim
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The Nephilim: Chapter 1
If your god has cheated you of light, Come to me, the devil say. If your god does not allow your animal passions, Come to me, the devil say. If your god does not shield you, Come to me, the…
The Nephilim: Chapter 2
Lisa pulled into the The Shangri-La’s parking lot. It was a severely misnamed motor inn that had taken over a failed Holiday Inn, by the town’s single off-ramp from the expressway. The original sign was still there with the big,…
The Nephilim: Chapter 3
Jim came back to reality slowly. Like a whale rising up from the ocean depths after a long, deep, dive. His eyes were fully open and his jaw slack, as he was breathing through his mouth. His face hurt and…
The Nephilim: Chapter 4
Lisa sat on the side of the bed, holding Jim’s right hand in her lap, with both of her hands. She fidgeted and played with his hand, pulling his fingers randomly and watching the results. Jim studied her as if…
The Nephilim: Chapter 5
Michael did well at school without much effort and it often left him bored. He felt different than the other kids, but hadn’t learned who he really was yet, or how truly different he was. He kept his own counsel…
The Nephilim: Chapter 6
Michael and Ashley were sitting in one of the commercial cafe’s on campus. It was only the second day of classes that Ashley had missed since entering college. The cafe was run by an outside contractor not the school. It…
The Nephilim: Chapter 7
Michael let the silence hang for a while he did his own survey on the man before him. When it became obvious Apollyon wasn’t going to volunteer anything he decided to plunge forward as if his assertion was true. “Okay,…
The Nephilim: Chapter 8
Michael cursed as he walked quickly down the side of the interstate trying to put some distance between himself and the Ford Escort he’d “borrowed” to get home. If the wrong person saw him it was all over. He really…
The Nephilim: Chapter 9
Michael continued in school until he got his law degree. It wasn’t a challenge like it was to the other students and the work left him unsatisfied. While he dated relentlessly, no woman could push Marjy from his thoughts. He…
The Nephilim: Chapter 10
The next few days Jake hardly slept. He worked tirelessly ripping down vines, clearing away trees and brush exposing incredibly well preserved buildings. There were twenty cylindrical and four rectangular houses uncovered during the initial investigation. The houses were constructed…
The Nephilim: Chapter 11
Lilly and Jake sat together on the flight home. For two people that felt such a jolt at the slightest hint of physical contact, their conversation was mundane. They commented on the mountains they crossed, what movies they liked, and…
The Nephilim: Chapter 12
Jake spent most of his time in isolation, crouched over a desk with a magnifying glass, his counterpart, birthday twin so to speak, had a very different life. Michael lived in the heart of corruption, Washington DC. He had hundreds…
The Nephilim: Chapter 13
The triumph, Jake felt, from finding the lost city, faded quickly with the slump that took hold of him after Lilly left. He had made a connection with her unlike any he’d ever made with any other woman.He had always…
The Nephilim: Chapter 14
Reggie, leaned against the tired brick wall, his knee kicked out, resting one foot on the wall. The brick was smudged with the diesel soot from passing buses and trucks on their way to the warehouses in the area. He…
The Nephilim: Chapter 15
John felt a tingling in his stomach. It rose up and spread back down through his body. The anxiety, he had felt so profoundly moments before was evaporating as the drug worked its way into his blood stream. The pain…
The Nephilim: Chapter 16
Michael screamed in vain at the driver in front of him. His barrage of tightly strung insults bounced off the window and around the sealed, air conditioned, car and went unheard by the others locked in the death snarl of…
The Nephilim: Chapter 17
There was a man. Was he there? Michael thought he was. Maybe it was just his mind. The man was leaning down, but he wouldn’t come into focus. “Michael.” Apollyon’s was gentle. Michael had never heard him speak that way.…
The Nephilim: Chapter 18
Jake tried to focus on the ancient pot he’d been holding onto for an hour. He kept seeing Lilly’s face instead of the pot. When he could drive her from his mind’s eye, the visions of his metaphysical flights replaced…