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    The Case of the Broken Heart
    The Case of the Broken Heart
    The Case of the Broken Heart
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    The Case of the Broken Heart

    By Richard von Fuchs

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    A smooth talking American evangelist is building a church in a small town outside Vancouver and drops dead in the middle of a sermon.
    Many people who know and serve him have a motive to kill him. Was it murder or heart disease?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard von Fuchs
    Release dateJan 12, 2014
    ISBN9781310961083
    The Case of the Broken Heart
    Author

    Richard von Fuchs

    Dr. Richard von Fuchs was born in St. Louis, grew up in Niagara Falls, New York. He graduated from the University of Colorado and the University of Rhode Island, and much later from the University of Vienna. After teaching high school in Rhode Island and Ontario, he settled on Vancouver Island in 1971. The BC NDP (social democrats) hired him as an organizer and he became a Canadian citizen.He had walk-on parts as a fisherman, tree planter, a radio and TV news announcer, including CBC Prince Rupert, retail music store owner and piano tuner. The habit of door knocking in political campaigns led to several years as a door to door salesman.He trod the boards in amateur theatre and musicals in Courtenay, B.C in the 1970s, and then sang in some Folk Festivals and isolated bars. Twice went to Japan to teach English.His former wife, Betty, took excellent care of him.In 1990 he moved to Western Hungary to teach English at a forestry college and earned a PhD at the University of Vienna. Abandoning 33 years of atheism, he returned to the Lutheran church, and became a church janitor in Scarsdale, New York for 18 months, while teaching at Iona College. He was a Green party candidate in Ontario in 2OO3.Returning to Europe, he was employed at the University of West Hungary until 2014, settled in a bourgeois suburb of Sopron, Hungary. He has a Hungarian wife, Etelka, and a son Maximilian, born in 1996.

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      The Case of the Broken Heart - Richard von Fuchs

      The Case of the Broken Heart

      a comedy by

      Richard von Fuchs

      Copyright 2014 by Richard von Fuchs

      Smashwords Edition

      Cast

      Reverend Bill Joe Bob, 43, from Kentucky

      Fred Holland, almost reformed cocaine dealer

      Marguerite, middle aged church member

      Pat Glazier, realtor, church member

      Jim Cochrane, realtor, not a church member

      Suzanne, 25, church secretary

      Cecil, 60, church janitor and Suzanne’s uncle

      RCMP Sgt. McPhee

      RCMP Corporal Winsby

      6 non-speaking church members, Alice, et. al.

      Setting

      The Church of God Almighty, Independent and Reformed, Yarrow, B.C. and Chilliwack RCMP headquarters

      Summer, 1989

      Scene one

      A lectern is set a stage right at a 45 degree angle toward a congregation sitting in folding chairs, including Fred, Marguerite, Pat, Suzanne, and Cecil. Billy Joe Bob stands behind the lectern.

      Billy Joe Bob: And so he carried away the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand, full of abominations ad filthiness of her fornication. And upon her forehead was a name written: Mystery Babylon the great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth. And the angel said unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues. And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire. For God has put into their hearts to fulfill his will, and to agree and to give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. And the woman which thou sawest is that great city which reigneth over the earth." (He closes the Bible). That’s the word of God from the Book of Revelations. That’s a look ahead into our future. It’s like having a lookout on a ship telling us what lies ahead.

      Now some people say that the Book of Revelations is a mysterious book, hard to understand, written in a mystical style. None are so blind as those that will not see. I ask you, what could be clearer? The whore, decked in god and precious stones, is our life today in our big cities, all glitter and flash but based on filthiness. It says right here, the woman which thou sawest is that great city. That’s the old fashioned word for whore, prostitute, street walker, or whatever you want to call them.

      Now there is a lot of talk about the beast in the Book of Revelations. It says very clearly that the beast shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire. That’s the fate that lies ahead for the smart people in our sophisticated big cities, if you look ahead, or listen to our lookout in the Book of Revelations.

      Now some of those smart city people laugh at us Christians who still go to church. You know they do. They say we’ve got running board religion. They sneer at us. They think we

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