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    Journey from Paradise
    Journey from Paradise
    Journey from Paradise
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    Journey from Paradise

    By Tony Radford

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    Journey from Paradise is an adventure story that revolves around human trafficking by modern day pirates. It begins in a familiar setting - a tragic event that led to a global search for a missing teenage girl. My story begins where her's seemingly ended. The story unfolds over the course of fourteen episodes and is told in perfect rhyme and meter.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTony Radford
    Release dateAug 8, 2014
    ISBN9781311158833
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      Journey from Paradise - Tony Radford

      Journey from Paradise

      Copyright 2014 Tony Radford

      Published by Smashwords

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. 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 book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your enjoyment only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Prologue

      Journey from Paradise is a dark story that begins in a familiar setting that launched a worldwide search for a teenage girl who disappeared under suspicious circumstances. My story continues where hers seemingly ended.

      I wrote Journey from Paradise as another step in my pursuit of the ultimate poem – albeit ultimate by my own definition. My goal was to write a full-length adventure story consisting of a series of episodes, each one leading to the next and each ending on a verse that prompts the reader to follow the story to the end. I find it most challenging to bring depth to a story while remaining within the bounds of a structure that includes perfect meter and a consistent rhyming sequence throughout.

      Journey from Paradise

      Part I - Island Holiday

      The view that she’d get when the passenger jet

      made a bank for its final approach

      was a fine sight to see even though it would be

      through a small plastic portal in coach.

      The isle – but a strand, was surrounded by sand

      and encased in a halo of green

      that feathered to blue with the translucent hue

      of an ocean so clear and pristine.

      She held on to Kent as they made their descent

      to a runway just feet from the shore,

      but the squeeze she’d invest was symbolic at best –

      just a neighbor and not a bit more.

      She was here for the fun and sometime in the sun,

      where she hoped to go home with a tan –

      the suit that she packed was designed to attract,

      so the last thing she’d need was a man.

      It was all very new since her travels were few,

      was the first time she’d been on a plane –

      but she’d gotten a pass to go south with her class

      who attended a school in Fort Wayne.

      Once on the ground, they would

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