Fire Fell From Heaven Collection

By E. Don Harpe

Includes Fire Fell From Heaven, an irreverent and fresh new look at the end of the world. Also features Miller's Luck; Cyphons; and The Wedding Helmet.

• Language: English
• Publisher: E. Don Harpe
• Release date: Jul 23, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465796523

E. Don Harpe

Award winning author E. DON HARPE has had a varied career, from military service in the 60’s to years spent as a published songwriter in Nashville. During this time he won the coveted Silver Pen Award from the Nashville Banner newspaper. Since retiring from public work in 2004, Harpe has concentrated on writing novels, and continuing to move forward with his writing. He also has nearly 40 short stories available which can be found on Smashwords as well as other sites that feature ebooks. His book of memoirs, THE LAST OF THE SOUTH TOWN RINKY DINKS, published in September of 2008, was an instant success with friends and readers alike. The stories are touching, down to earth tales of small town America, and will bring tears and laughter to all who can remember when the world was a kinder, simpler place. It’s one of those books that you won’t be able to put down, and one that you will re-read many times over the years. Now living in Georgia, Harpe devotes his time to Helen, his wife of nearly 50 years, to his children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, and to his writing. “I’m pretty satisfied in my own skin right now,” Harpe says, “and I just want to continue to write things that will entertain and hold the readers interest.”

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FIRE FELL FROM HEAVEN

By E. Don Harpe

Copyright 2008 Ernest D. Harp

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FEATURING

1. FIRE FELL FROM HEAVEN

I'll tell you what, God said. Look in that little book on the table there. The little black one. The one those guys on Earth who used to run around with You wrote. I think I told the people on Earth the next time they got out of line I'd destroy the whole planet with hail, didn't I? A huge ice storm. Look it up for Me, will You? They wrote all that stuff down. He paused for a moment, scratched His royal head, and then continued, I'm pretty sure I told them it would be an ice storm. Jesus thumbed through the little book for a minute, then stopped and read a short passage. Nope. It wasn't ice at all. You're wrong. Sorry Dad, but it says here You're gonna destroy the Earth with hell fire and brimstone. Fire falling from Heaven. Holy Moley, Pop, did You have to be so dramatic?

2. MILLER’S LUCK

Blacksmith Nathaniel Miller's beautiful young wife Clara has a lover, a lover who is more than willing to murder Nathaniel in order to make Clara his own. When a horseshoe is instrumental in Nathaniel's death, he places a curse upon it with his dying breath. After the curse claims the life of the unfaithful Clara and her lover, surely the curse will end.

3. CYPHONS

Twins Katu and Kana were born with the unique ability to siphon the powers and knowledge of anyone whose head they touched. Their power, a result of their parents exposure to radiation, was sometimes a blessing and sometimes a curse, but they had learned to control it and had promised their parents that they would never abuse it. Now, in the middle of a trans-Atlantic flight, that promise might be something they would have to break. At least, they’d have to break it if they hoped to get the Jumbo jet and its several hundred passengers safely on the ground.

4. THE WEDDING HELMET

In 1879, teenagers were not as promiscuous as they are now, and it was not against the law for a boy or girl to get married at 12 or 13 years of age. However, most of them knew almost nothing about sex until the wedding night. So it was that on the day after his wedding night 15 year-old Wilbur Edison invented what soon became one of the most popular devices for a young married man that the country had ever seen. The Wedding Helmet.

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FIRE FELL FROM HEAVEN

There are times when scientists have a tendency to jump the gun, put the cart before the horse, go off half cocked, so to speak, and the most recent asteroid scare seemed to be nothing more than another one of those times.

At first, every major scientist in the world called the latest visitor from space the big one, the one that might end life on Earth as we know it.

However, after two months of news coverage, story after story in every local paper in the country, and one endless television alert after another, when the asteroid turned out to be a large pocket of space gas, the people of the world did the same thing they always did. They shrugged their shoulders, wrote it off as another crack-pot end of the world tale, and went back to work.

Which brings us to the next object in the sky, which by some strange circumstance happened a few minutes later that same morning.

December 21, 2012 - 8:14 AM, Earth

The theory about this second object, if there were anyone left to theorize, that is, would be that the worldwide scare over the first object, and the ensuing logical end to the menace from the sky, is probably why no one at first actually believed the second object would be of any consequence.

It's for sure no one actually thought the end of the world was imminent.

Nonetheless, when the giant UFO appeared in the sky over the southern U.S. just before dawn one chilly December morning it still scared the living hell out of pretty much every one in the country. This time was a little