Harvest of Planet Earth

By Bruce Carnahan

Meet Tom Nolan, a city boy whose aspiration of escaping to the innocence of small town America is destroyed one unholy night on a secluded country road, when an incomprehensible encounter with a mysterious stranger reveals catastrophic evidence that shatters his whole life.
What if the end of the world really isn’t the end? What if the truth about angels isn’t so angelic? And reincarnation, even religion may not be what we think they are. Could the global warming movement have an underlying agenda that is actually extraterrestrial in origin? What if Earth is not where Humans originated at all and we were transplanted here from somewhere else for diabolical reasons? And how are all these connected to countless accounts of alien abduction?
This is the story of one such abduction that ends with a terrifying revelation: the reason extraterrestrials visit this planet and what they want. Find out how Tom Nolan is involuntarily recruited by them one frightful night when he and his friend, Rube DiAngelo, were just knocking around the countryside in an old pickup truck and managed to bump into a UFO.
If you have ever had interest in global warming, the end of the world, angels, alien abductions, religion, the Rapture or reincarnation...you owe it to yourself to find out how all these are tied together in one unexpected, monstrous plot in this explosive new work of fiction!
Read The Harvest of Planet Earth for yourself and discover a totally different perspective! See if it doesn’t make more sense than anything else you have ever heard!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bruce Carnahan
• Release date: Dec 5, 2013
• ISBN: 9781310145216

Bruce Carnahan

Bruce Carnahan’s first book, 12 Stages of Life, gave thoughtful reflection on 12 of the major stages of life as lived in North America. This book, the Harvest of Planet Earth, takes it to another level, going beyond life as it is lived and reflecting on the musings of “What If?” Carnahan has written feature articles appearing in multiple newspapers, screenplays and sitcom episodes. He has also driven 18 wheelers cross country and been a waiter, minister, door to door salesman, puppeteer and actor.

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THE HARVEST OF PLANET EARTH

By Bruce Carnahan

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Bruce Carnahan at Smashwords

Copyright (c) 2013 by Bruce Carnahan

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CONTENTS

1 Trepidation

2 Friends and Pickup Trucks

3 Down Home Dreams

4 Lights in the Sky

5 Run

6 Meet and Greet

7 Come on Inside

8 Examination Room

9 Farming

10 Superior Thoughts

11 Heavenly Maps

12 Religious Manipulation

13 Angelic Programming

14 Essence of Reincarnation

15 Taken Up by Rapture

16 The End of the World

17 A Way Out

18 Saving the Environment

19 No Goodbyes

20 Drop Off Point

21 Salvation

22 Unplanned Travel Plans

23 Phone Home

24 Acceptance

Chapter One

On a hilltop overlooking a lonely river in Reliance, Tennessee, I’m still shaking as I write these words.

I must warn you, it is a bizarre story---one I even have difficulty believing myself. The future of the human race, however, rests on whether or not you do believe the account contained in these pages.

If these are the words of a madman, then you have only a few callous chuckles to lose by indulging me. But if my story is true, your life will forever be changed.

The skeptics who know me will no doubt point out that, for most of my adult life, I’ve flitted from one job to the next, sampling the hors-d’oeuvres offered by various careers, frustrated at never being invited for the main course. It’s true that, in my quest for the pleasures promised by the American Dream, I’ve left behind a string of short, light-lived careers: truck driver, door-to-door salesman, minister, commercial artist, concrete mixer, waiter, writer, bus driver, pool builder, office worker, marketing director, gas station attendant, the list goes on. While working my day jobs, I always had a project going. You know, some off the wall business venture that would make my family and me rich--or at least financially comfortable. Therefore, some would probably assume that writing this is just a scheme to get some attention and be someone important for a change--an ongoing excursion in dollar hunting.

That is why my critics will try to convince you this is just another one of my enterprises. They’ll say I’m only concocting this story for the money, the fame, the attention.

God, I wish that were true.

Chapter Two

Tonight was unusually warm for Northeast Pennsylvania. Rube DiAngelo and I were driving down an isolated stretch of road in Bradford County, listening to Hank Williams cds.

I felt invincible driving around in Rube’s pickup. It was a real pickup. An old beat up Ford four-wheel drive with a roll bar. It had a few rust spots here and there--just enough to prove it had been around. The bed of the truck was sparsely littered with hand-crushed beer cans, an old spare tire that kept sliding back and forth, and what looked to me like miscellaneous scrap metal. Rube had a name and purpose for every piece. Like its owner, the rawness of that truck produced the sensation of being able to survive anything.

I also enjoyed Rube’s company. He would be considered a good ole boy primarily because he is a survivor, using common sense approaches to solve down-to-earth problems. Equally at ease with a gun, a crescent wrench or a beer in his hand, he never ceases to impress me. I pick up a tool of any kind and everything around me seems to fall apart. Show Rube how to do something one time and that’s it--he’s mastered it.

I remember one night we were all sitting around fooling with a Rubik Cube, trying clumsily to get all the same colors on one side. Finally, when everyone had surrendered in exasperation and the cube was laid to rest on the table, I noticed Rube quietly pick it up. I watched in disbelief as he began taking it apart piece by piece. Exactly how he knew to do that I’ll never know, but I quietly observed as the others noisily carried on back in the kitchen, oblivious to the marvel of good ole boy engineering unfolding before my eyes. As he slipped the last piece into place, my wife Sandi emerged from the kitchen.

Rube! You did it! She gasped, as everyone came bolting through the door.

Got my own method, Rube beamed at them. Lot easier.

My wife and Rube’s wife, Laurie, were best friends---soul-mates, if there is such a thing. Ever since Sandi moved from Bradford