The Gonkers Time Travel

By Mary Pearson

Seven siblings are transported back in time when they put their hands on the Bible that sits on the altar in their church and experience amazing historical events alongside Jesus. This is a fun, exciting, and educational adventure story for young Christians.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mary Pearson
• Release date: Aug 6, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301743001

Mary Pearson

Mary Pearson grew up in an enormous Catholic family with fifteen siblings. Now, she has five daughters of her own, but no boys - at least as far as she knows (wink wink). She cantors for her church and helps out with charitable functions. She's a big fan of crazy vampire romance books, well made cookies, and Jesus (not in that particular order). She decorates cakes, and once got angry and threw a wedding cake at her sister because she had enquired when it would be ready. Her sister walked out covered in frosting and told the customer that it would be a bit longer than expected, She makes up her own language with her kids, using words like cheesewunks and scrullums. She once accidently tanned her upper lip by sitting out in the sun at a strange angle and ended up looking kind of swarthy for a while, her long hair and her tan moustache lip. She is one of the two stars of Buying Tyme - a true story about her and her mother buying a rundown bakery and trying to learn to make a living with it. That story just got translated for the Chinese by some folks in Hong Kong. You can find that story, written by a positively brilliant author, here on Smashwords for free. Mary also won a bunch of academic awards and crap and graduated from the University of Minnesota with honors. She's written lots of books and plans to put some of them here for you guys, her new best friends, to cherish and enjoy, and to run with your Nooks and Kindles out into your city to show the stories to anyone you're physically strong enough to hold down and force to read them.

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The Gonkers

By Mary C Pearson

copyright 2013 Mary C Pearson

Smashwords edition

There were seven of them. Four were girls and three were boys.

Because they lived in the city and the city had become so full of evil their mother never ever let them play outside. Not unless she was right there staring at them. Pretty tricky being creative when your mother is always looking at you.

Then came the Event. Logan was the one who came up with the name for it. Lillian wanted to call it the big magic thing but Lucien said that was too many words and Molly suggested they could just use the initials: the BMT, but Finnegan thought that sounded like a sandwich and it made him feel hungry. Magdalene was too little to have an opinion and Fred Therese was only a babe in diapers-- cloth because their mother was kind of a hippy. She made their own clothes, breast fed the babies, made soap and toothpaste and shampoo out of mysterious healthy things that came in the mail. And their aunt, Geneva, made them homemade bread and bone broth soup. All of this is boring background stuff but it needs to be shared before you can really know the Gonkers.

The other thing you need to know is their ages: Logan 9 (almost 10), Lily 8, Lucien 7, Molly 6, Finne 4 , Maggie 3, Fred is 10 months. And so on the night when they got to go to the carnival at Cathedral and all the other kids from their parish were there they were able to sneak up to the bell tower.

Father Andrew was there.

Whoa! Logan stopped where he was, which caused Lucien to bump into him hard.

And who might we have here? Father Andrew wasn’t a tall man but anyone seems tall when you are 9 or younger.

None of them wanted to answer because they had no good excuse for sneaking around in the church but Lillian spoke up. Isn’t it a very lovely night for a climb? I mean it was getting kind of stuffy in the church and… Her voice trailed off. It wasn’t much of an excuse, she knew.

For a minute he just stared at them. Then he said in a stern voice, Did you happen to notice that the stairwell was roped off?

The children nodded.

And that there was a sign that read do not enter?

The children nodded again.

We’re very sorry, said Lucien. Then he smiled, bravely showing his most persuasive dimples. But we were just hoping to have an adventure.

An adventure…? Hmmm. Father Andrew stroked his very dark, very full beard. Well that is a reasonable desire, he said.

Which surprised them. Very seldom do adults understand such things.

I may be able to assist you there, that is, if you pass the test.

And then he gave them a map of the Cathedral and told them to find each of the hidden treasures.

The Event

Very suspicious, the children thought. Especially after they had been searching for awhile. There were twenty items on the list and although they were all in clear sight no one had ever before noticed the stained glass patriarchs, like Abraham and Moses, or the statues of saints like Augustine and Catherine and the big iron statue of Kateri Tekakwitha. There were mosaics ( paintings made out of glass chips) and tapestries, which are cloth depictions from the Bible, and there were relics (bone fragments mostly) of dozens of saints buried in front of the altar. They found them all. The very last item on the list was just the big old Bible from which the Scriptures were read at Sunday