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    The Compound
    The Compound
    The Compound
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    The Compound

    By Darrel Bird

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    Paul Murphy has had his house blown up, his wife killed, his job gone, and he hits the road walking with the clothes on his back. He is picked up by a man and woman who is heading for a safe compound in Colorado, but is that a safe place?

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDarrel Bird
    Release dateMay 6, 2015
    ISBN9781310671968
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    Darrel Bird

    Darrel Bird has written and published 47 short stories. He attended Bakersfield college, and is an avid motorcyclist.

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      The Compound - Darrel Bird

      The compound

      by Darrel Bird

      Copyright 2015 by Darrel Bird

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      Part 1: The Road

      None of the people Paul Murphy knew had an idea of what was going to happen to Christians in America back in 2015. Oh, sure, there was the gloom and doom. There are always the gloom and doom. Jesus said the poor are always with us. Maybe he should have included the gloom and doom. Youtube was rife with self-proclaimed prophets proclaiming the fall of America, from atomic bombs to asteroids from space.

      Things got rough, but then there were food lines back in the thirties, so it wasn’t anything America hadn’t seen before. Christians are mostly a free-hearted lot and are willing to help one another and even others outside the fold, but some left-wing whing ding let his hate get the best of him and began blaming the Christians for everything that was happening to them. This caught on fast. Things got worse; gas, food, and rent went sky high, and the government began losing its iron grip on the populace and came up with the idea to blame it on the Christians. Another left-wing whing-ding in Washington, D.C., latched on to this Christian blaming game and ran with it. Soon people began to believe it, right down to your every-day Joe the plumber.

      By 2019, if the lettuce crop failed in California, forest fires burned homes, or the price of food and gas went up, the people would have a scapegoat. Christians were shot for being Christians, and no one did anything. It was open season for them. Churches and homes were bombed, the Christians suffered, and the church went mostly underground. Portland, Oregon, was a bad place to live in 2019. They blew up Paul Murphy’s house with his wife in it, and Paul, with nothing but his clothes on his back, walked up the I-84 highway, thinking the road to Denver might be a better place to get off somewhere to lick his wounds, as it were.

      Paul was long on grief and short on food. Paul, with no home, wife, or job, felt like his life was pretty well done. He tried to stay off the highway during the day because of pot shooters who passed. He ended up outside Baker City, Oregon, and he was so worn out in body and spirit that he didn’t hear the car begin to slow behind him until it was even with him.

      Where are you heading, sir? Are you a Christian? The young man leaned his head out the window of a small car and asked.

      "Yes.  Off…  maybe Denver

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