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    Az's Children
    Az's Children
    Az's Children
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    Az's Children

    By Stephen Brandon

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    The Saturn2020 series starts with an individual that's had a dream all his life. It progressed from there to a chance to help others. Several branches converge and the results aren't what any normal sane person would expect.
    Beware when you meet the daughters of lawyers! Being raised with a silver spoon in your mouth gives you a sense of entitlement, right. However, if your mother has a spirit guide and your father is possessed then entitlement is something other than what you might want. The challenge begins when each follows their parents wishes or tries to break free. Death may be more pleasant than living under their parents thumb.
    Some characters force themselves into the story line, and other develop from the circumstances forced upon them. This particular volume tells about four of Mike's ten children.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStephen Brandon
    Release dateJul 7, 2014
    ISBN9781310403439
    Az's Children
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    Stephen Brandon

    I've loved westerns and science fiction since I picked up my first book at the public library. I've been writing on my computer for years. I never planned on any of my stories being published, just to be read by myself, family, and friends. The base journal is on forty spreadsheets with links to about a thousand files of short one day paragraphs plus other stories. {My claim to fame, written by someone else. Thanks.} "As an earthbound retiree, Stephen writes mostly science fiction and short stories. He is a voracious reader and has written for a few years, publishing his stories on Smashwords."

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      Az's Children - Stephen Brandon

      AZ's Children

      by Stephen Brandon

      Copyright 2014 Stephen Brandon

      Smashwords Edition

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      Thank you for downloading this ebook. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people, If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this ebook and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to you favorite ebook retailer and purchase you own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      Author's Note

      This book is a work of fiction. All characters, organizations, incidents, and dialogue are from the authors imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or other persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Real and fictional locations and equipment are used for background only.

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      Table of Contents ~ (ToC) ~

      Prologue

      Joshua

      Jacinda Mickey

      Joanna

      Alexis

      About the author

      Discover other titles by this author

      Connect with Stephen Brandon

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      Acknowledgments

      My wife has put up with me for over forty four years. Without her support and love I don't know who, what, or where I would be, so I thank her from the bottom of my heart, and I dedicate the Saturn 2020 series of books to her!

      I also wish to thank those that have encouraged me to express my imagination including the teachers I had decades ago when I was in school.

      ~ ~ ~

      Cover art by Wendi Lemmons

      portions of cover image courtesy of WWW.FREEIMAGES.CO.UK

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      Prologue

      The Saturn2020 series starts with an individual that's had a dream all his life. It progressed from there with a chance to help others. The job he accepts isn't easy. Several branches converge and the results aren't what any normal sane person would expect. Characters insert themselves into the story line, and others develop from the circumstances forced upon them.

      This particular volume tells about four of Mike's ten children.

      If you have not read AZ, then then you won't appreciated the children. Follow this link and get a discount coupon.

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      Joshua

      December 20, 2000. One of my birthday presents was a nice book with lined pages. She had engraved on the cover Joshua Wilcox Warren. She then told me that it was a journal book and I was to write down my thoughts and what I did and saw. Then she handed me one of those new palm print lock-boxes. After showing me how to set it she told me that I could write my personal thoughts and secure them in the box. There was enough room inside the box for several journal size books plus, and she pulled her pearl handled 45 and set it inside saying, You know this is my favorite.

      June 12, 2001. Arrived at the reservation this morning. They told me that this summer I would be allowed to choose one new training subject. I chose guns. When I was 6 they had me make my first flint knife. I've made several and some steel knives from stuff we found. I was eight when I made my first bow and flint tipped arrows. I love hunting, but skinning animals is something I'd rather not do, but to eat I had to, and after fire-making cooking also became a favorite.

      June 20. Learning to shoot a Winchester 22 long rifle was fun. The only thing they didn't mention until after the first week was, I had to reload the cartridges. I've spent 4 days retracing my steps and found most of the empty cartridges I fired. This afternoon Walking Softly informed me that I only would have the empty cartridges I reloaded to use this summer. Then he handed me a bag with a bullet mold, some tools, and lead. Tomorrow he says he'll teach me how to make bullets and fix bent cartridges.

      June 29. This morning we went out and set up a work camp. Walking Softly brought out tins of black powder and primers. After showing me how to pop-out the cartridge primers, he showed me how to insert and press the new primers into the cartridges. These cartridges are center fire, most every 22 I ever saw before had rim fire primers. I had only one primer pop while pressing it into place. When we started melting the lead to make bullets he insisted that I remember to always stay upwind of the fire.

      June 30. This morning we made some special bullets in another bullet mold. They are smaller in diameter than the others. After lunch he showed me how to fasten a wire to each bullet and then he showed me how to build a clay kiln for melting copper.

      July 1st. Last night we tended the fire all night and this morning he told me that the copper was hot enough and added a couple of pieces of tin. Walking Softly then told me that his father had taught him how to make bronze bullets. When it all melted he showed me how to dip the new bullets in the liquid copper mix to coat the lead bullet. Immediately he put the coated bullet in a hand mold and squeezed.

      July 23, 2001. This morning just after dawn I got my first full grown buck with a bronze bullet. The bullet went all the way through after breaking the left front shoulder. After butchering the buck we headed back to camp and then back to the village. The only complement I got this summer was that I was better at tracking than Buzzard Head.

      August 10. Finished rebuilding the Winchester and putting a new barrel on it. Walking Softly finally approved and I packed it in treated rags along with the remaining hand loaded ammunition. He reverently placed it in a box in the cave and then we sealed the cave entrance and removed all tracks from the area.

      August 15th. Mom picked me up this afternoon and all the bucks except Walking Softly scattered when she entered camp. I could feel the tension radiating from Walking Softly as he described what he'd taught me this summer. Mom just smiled tossing a fireball back and forth between her hands. Then she told Walking Softly that he'd done a good job and she was pleased.

      November 16, 2002. Was talking to a kid at the mall this morning and he said I was lucky to be home schooled. He then told me about the crap that he had to put up with in public school. What I didn't tell him was that the tutors that taught us made the subjects interesting, but when we then tested us our papers

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