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    Beauty in a Scorched Land
    Beauty in a Scorched Land
    Beauty in a Scorched Land
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    Beauty in a Scorched Land

    By Kelvin Bueckert, Charlene Constant and Janice Constant

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    3 Stories.

    2 Continents.

    1 Message.

    So different, so much the same... Samuel and Rob are two young men, living in two different worlds with strangely similar thoughts of romance. Can they overcome their internal secrets and the external threats of war? Will they successfully raise a family? Follow two intertwining stories through three dramatic, humorous, and sometimes horrifying episodes. 

    Can you face the truth?

    Written to raise awareness of poverty and its effects, Beauty in a Scorched Land also features a selection of beautiful full-color photographs by Charlene Constant. Charlene is a nurse who spent some time working in Africa and also offers insights gleaned from personal experience.

    As an extra bonus, a short story by Janice Constant is also included.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKelvin Bueckert
    Release dateAug 16, 2018
    ISBN9781386554158
    Beauty in a Scorched Land
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    Kelvin Bueckert

    Kelvin is a diverse writer who has written drama, humor, suspense, poetry, and pretty much, whatever he feels like writing. His writings have been featured in many different and diverse places such as The Pedestal Magazine, Horizon Magazine, The Fifth Dimension, Writer Online, The Martian Wave, Lyrica Webzine of Romantic Fiction, Bewildering Stories, Alephion, Washing the Color of Water Golden, and many others. As an actor, producer, writer and director Kelvin has been involved with many productions. So, if you have a show in the works, why not contact him? Awards 2nd Place in a Canada Post Essay Contest Honorable Mention in the Unscrambled Eggs poetry contest. Runner up in Breakaway Magazine's Hey World essay contest. 4th Place in the Spinetinglers contest. Outstanding Community Achievement as part of the Austin Manitoba 150th Anniversary celebrations. Garageband, song of the day. Compo10 song contest winner  

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      Beauty in a Scorched Land - Kelvin Bueckert

      Kelvin Bueckert, Charlene Constant, Janice Constant

      Beauty in a Scorched Land

      Copyright © 2018 by Kelvin Bueckert, Charlene Constant, Janice Constant

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise without written permission from the publisher. It is illegal to copy this book, post it to a website, or distribute it by any other means without permission.

      Kelvin Bueckert, Charlene Constant, Janice Constant has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party Internet Websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such Websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.

      Designations used by companies to distinguish their products are often claimed as trademarks. All brand names and product names used in this book and on its cover are trade names, service marks, trademarks and registered trademarks of their respective owners. The publishers and the book are not associated with any product or vendor mentioned in this book. None of the companies referenced within the book have endorsed the book.

      Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL

      VERSION (c) Copyright (c)1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible

      Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights

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      Third edition

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      Contents

      1. A Feast

      2. A Pose

      3. Thoughts From Kelvin

      4. At the Water's Edge

      5. Ants in Our Pants

      6. A Splash of Beauty

      7. I Said, No More Pictures!

      8. War Stories

      9. A Sign

      10. Civilization

      11. A Memorable Visit

      12. All's Well That Ends Well

      13. The Forgotten Voice

      14. Thoughts From Charlene

      15. Reuben's Story

      16. Poverty Factsheet

      17. Thoughts From Janice

      18. Beauty in a Scorched Land

      19. Heading Out

      20. Heading Home

      Additional Thoughts

      The Authors

      The Last Word

      1

      A Feast

      2

      A Pose

      3

      Thoughts From Kelvin

      Kelvin & Charlene?

      The stories I wrote are fiction.

      My goal was to move the statistics from their status as cold numbers to the living reality they reflect.

      The journal entries and pictures by my sister, Charlene, are true. They are snapshots of her time working as a nurse in Zambia. As an editor, I have left her writing as intact as possible.

      The idea of using parallel storylines was to contrast the state of the third world, with the richness of North America. Should this book be taken a reflection of whole continents?

      Of course not.

      The issues confronting Africa and North America are complex and diverse. This humble book cannot hope to cover them all. I would strongly encourage you to research the issues raised in this book for yourself.

      Ultimately, our biggest goals for this project are to raise awareness, provoke thought, and most of all to prompt action. I hope we have achieved that in a small way.

      Kelvin

      P.S. Any resemblances between the authors and the monkeys are, of course, entirely coincidental.

      4

      At the Water's Edge

      Arrival in Zambia

      Sunrise

      The morning sun was a burning eye of fire. Its gaze beat through the clouds and onto a head of short black hair.

      Samuel straightened and then wiped a sheen of sweat from his forehead. Muscles rippled in his powerful arms. He believed that his strength was a gift of God.

      A gift that needed to be used.

      He could see the tips of pots bobbing along the trail to the south. A long line of water-carrying women

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