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    Japheth, Ishvi and The Light
    Japheth, Ishvi and The Light
    Japheth, Ishvi and The Light
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    Japheth, Ishvi and The Light

    By JZ Murdock

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    We escaped society at the commune, but these soldiers came, and these things, that they came to... has Hell crawled from the depths?

    Based on the Biblical tale of Abraham and his son Isaac, Japheth loves his son Isaac.

    Along with Ishvi's siblings, they live in a religious commune known as, "The Light". Life is good. They have land, and love. Community. Until the Zombie Apocalypse burns into the ground as terrifying pillars from the skies and throws in some devastating confusion. Add in a splitting migraine, few special Decon soldiers, God himself and well, there you pretty much have it. All the good ingredients needed for a very real nightmare.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJZ Murdock
    Release dateOct 25, 2014
    ISBN9781310188534
    Japheth, Ishvi and The Light
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    JZ Murdock

    JZ Murdock: A Master of the Dark and the Strange JZ Murdock is not your ordinary writer. He is an award-winning author, filmmaker, and screenwriter who explores the realms of the unknown, the bizarre, and the terrifying. From speculative and science fiction to horror and non-fiction, his works will challenge your imagination and keep you on the edge of your seat. If you are a fan of Rod Serling, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, or Philip K. Dick, you will love JZ Murdock's stories. His style is unique, his vision is original, and his voice is unforgettable. His very first published horror story, "In Memory, Yet Crystal Clear," is a chilling tale of a dystopian America when a single mentally unbalanced man alters his physiology in order to handle all of America's advertising. Bizarrely, America buys frighteningly into it. Also available as an audiobook on Audible and Amazon. Don't miss this opportunity to discover one of the most versatile and creative writers of our time. JZ Murdock will take you on a journey you will never forget. With an impressive repertoire of short stories published in his own books and various anthologies alongside other esteemed authors, JZ Murdock seamlessly combines his passion for storytelling with his academic background. After earning a degree in psychology and phenomenology from Western Washington University, he has played significant roles as a Sr. Technical Writer in the world of PNW IT, contributing to the successes of high-level IT teams including one dedicated to national and international cybersecurity issues. Since 2010, JZ Murdock has captivated readers and enthusiasts alike through his popular blog at Murdockinations.com. The extensive collection of 1500+ thought-provoking articles serves as an invaluable archive, preserving his unique perspectives and insights. It's life as he has seen it and evolved into our ever new world. Adding to his creative endeavors, JZ Murdock's latest film production is an antiwar documentary, "Pvt. Ravel's Bolero," which stands as a remarkable "filmic poem" and has won over 150 film festival Official Selections and winning laurels.

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      Japheth, Ishvi and The Light - JZ Murdock

      Japheth, Ishvi and The Light

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      Japheth stood alone in the woods, enjoying a walk alone for a change. He was ruminating over his life, enjoying a few moments away from the work, his children, and his past. He stopped and looked around at the beauty of the forest.

      ‘To stand alone in the woods, and listen, to truly listen, is to live; to live God’s desire for us," he thought to himself, feeling fully energized bathing in God’s love.

      Birds happily chirped their songs in a fine spring breeze, lazily drifting in and around the forest, tickling the flowers, caressing the mushrooms and grasses, as Japheth watched. Animals played, ate, scurried and yes, even killed one another, but it was all in the perfect natural sense and the ways of the World, as God originally intended.

      Life, was good.

      On the way back out, Japheth saw Joe heading toward the entrance to their land. This land, their community, was the reason that Grand Minister Joseph Tomlinson, Joe, as they called him, had chosen this area. Although they weren’t but fifteen minutes down road and another fifteen minutes down the highway, to a fair sized city, they were still quite secluded here.

      It was a seclusion that came in part by way of the natural geography of the location, but also by design. They had been able to purchase the fifty acres of prime but undevelopable land, cheaply. The landowner had hired an architect, as the story went. His report had said that this terrain was just too confused, to be able to get enough money out of what would have to be put into it.

      Dreams of a super apartment complex quickly evaporated for the investors.

      The land owner’s hopes thus dashed, he took up the BLC on their offer and so, Joe and Japheth’s group were able to rather inexpensively buy up the property. BLC, that was how Japeth’s people referred to themselves, the Bright Light Collective, or BLC to outsiders, but simply the The Light among the members.

      So the original owner made a small profit and they got an excellent deal for the location. Having acquired their dream property, one man’s garbage being another man’s dream, they built on it so that each family had their own area. In order to make the money stretch, they did build in as inexpensive a way as possible, but in the end, they were able to comfortably contain their community of fifty or so families.

      The compound itself consisted of several large buildings, each housing many common areas, as well as many individual family areas, that were more or less apartments. Their people were not Amish-like, nor were they anything like those poor souls in the ramshackle buildings down in Waco, Texas, where fire had killed so many.

      Here they had many modern conveniences, but most of those things were by design and consideration. The internet for instance was considered a highly questionable thing, and social networking sites were considered to be nothing less than the Devil’s playground. Television wasn’t far behind in that designation. Telephones were used only as needed for business, in order to complete those transactions that were necessary for the continuation of the The Light. They had all these technologies along with generators to support them, they just seldom used them. TV for instance, was usually only used as monitors for watching approved DVDs. It was, safer that way.

      Food of course was needed, medical supplies, and educational materials; they even had their own mini museum where Noah was riding a dinosaur the Ark, to say goodbye, of course. Sad as it was, God had ordered Noah not to bring any of those beasts into the single platform that could have saved all of those life forms. Which was too bad, because then the unbelievers couldn’t be arguing about all that evolution tripe. But obviously

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