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    The Face of an Unlikely God
    The Face of an Unlikely God
    The Face of an Unlikely God
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    The Face of an Unlikely God

    By Gord Rollo

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    In 1963, Professor Leonard Harris was on a field expedition to El Oriente and accidentally walked into the middle of a four hundred-year-old religious war between two prominent tribes in the area. The Huaorani (the forest dwellers) who worshiped the magnificent Jaguar as their most powerful deity, and the Quatuani (the river people) who worshiped the deadly piranha.

    One of those tribes believes that the white man just might be the next reincarnation of their most sacred god. The other tribe believes it too and will stop at nothing to murder the Professor before he can fulfill his dark destiny.

    The question is...what does Leonard Harris believe?

    And is he really willing to die just to find out?

    The Face of an Unlikely God is a 10K word novelette that can also be found in the collection Gods & Monsters Vol. 1 by the same author.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAshbury Creek Media
    Release dateNov 15, 2016
    ISBN9781540172136
    The Face of an Unlikely God
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    Gord Rollo

    Gord Rollo was born in St. Andrews, Scotland, but now lives in Ontario, Canada. His short stories and novella-length work have appeared in many professional publications throughout the genre and his novels include: The Jigsaw Man, Crimson, Strange Magic, Valley Of The Scarecrow, The Translators, Only The Thunder Knows, and The Crucifixion Experiments.. His work has been translated into several languages and his titles are currently being adapted for audiobooks. Besides novels, Gord edited the acclaimed evolutionary horror anthology, Unnatural Selection: A Collection of Darwinian Nightmares. He also co-edited Dreaming of Angels, a horror/fantasy anthology created to increase awareness of Down’s syndrome and raise money for research.

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      The Face of an Unlikely God - Gord Rollo

      The Face of an Unlikely God

      Gord Rollo

      Published by Ashbury Creek Media, 2016.

      Table of Contents

      Copyright

      The Face of an Unlikely God

      Story Notes

      Also by Gord Rollo

      The Jigsaw Man

      Strange Magic

      Valley of the Scarecrow

      The Translators

      Crowley’s Window

      The Dark Side of Heaven

      Peeler

      Gods & Monsters Vol. 1

      Time & Space Vol. 2

      Copyright © 2016 by Gord Rollo

      Chamber of the Gods © Gord Rollo and Brett Savory

      Breath of an Angel / Touch of the Devil © Gord Rollo and Gene O’Neill

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from the author.

      This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance it bears to reality is entirely coincidental.

      Published by Ashbury Creek Media

      Ontario, Canada

      Book & Cover Design by Adam Geen

      www.adamgeen.com

      THE FACE OF AN UNLIKELY GOD

      You’ll never find yourself until you’re willing to face the truth;

      no matter how painful the truth may be.

      -- Anonymous

      El Oriente, Ecuador – Present Day

      The scars are what the boy notices first. Thick, red welts running in parallel lines down both of the old man’s cheeks. The boy is thirteen years old, and his only concern here at the airport is trying to peddle a dollar or two from another silly tourist, but the scars stop him dead in his tracks, his practiced list of indispensable services left unsaid, forgotten as he stares in wide-eyed wonder.

      The old man is used to it by now.

      Come here, boy, he whispers, barely moving his lips. His aged voice is scratchy, bass deep — almost as unnerving to listen to as his disfigured visage is to gaze upon.

      The boy is unsure of himself, reluctant to approach, but the old man is wise and knows the lad’s weak spot.

      I have money.

      They huddle together talking quietly for a moment, and then the tension visibly leaves the boy’s shoulders. He smiles, nods his head in agreement and heads for the exit. The old man slowly follows.

      ***

      Across the vast tract of rolling land where the Amazon meets the Ecuadorian Andes, is a place known as El Oriente. A strange, mystical place, forgotten by time and man alike. It’s here that over half of the rivers that form the mighty Amazon begin to flow. Almost inaccessible because of the mountains, El Oriente was the very last place on the Amazon to be discovered by Western civilization as the early explorers pushed upriver from the Atlantic coast. To this day, much of the land is still undisturbed by modern society.

      Not all of it, unfortunately.

      It wasn’t the river that lured the Western world — it was the oil. After World War II, the search for deposits in El Oriente began to steadily build. Today, the oil market has created a frenzy of development that is rapidly spreading across the region, threatening to destroy this wondrously exotic land forever.

      The dirty little town of Coca is a perfect example of man’s ravenous greed — a forest boomtown, where the roads are literally paved with crude

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