The Garden: A Short Story

By Charles Sheehan-Miles

In late Victorian England, anthropologist Sir Colin Scott Cross sets out to find the historical location of the Garden of England.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cincinnatus Press
• Release date: Jan 23, 2014
• ISBN: 9781632020536

Charles Sheehan-Miles

Charles Sheehan-Miles has been a soldier, computer programmer, short-order cook and non-profit executive. He is the author of several books, including the indie bestsellers Just Remember to Breathe and Republic: A Novel of America's Future.

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The Garden

(A Short Story)

Charles Sheehan-Miles

Cincinnatus Press

The Garden: A Short Story

Copyright 1991 by

Charles Sheehan-Miles

 You believe in God, but your God is a heartless and cruel one....

The words of his wife echoed in Sir Colin Scott Cross' mind as he stared out across the blasted terrain of the Arabian Desert. For what seemed to be the thousandth time that day, he brushed the flies away from his face and eyes, wondering how in God's name they managed to live, even flourish, in this desolate place.

  In God's name, indeed.

  Five weeks had passed since he had left his home in Manchester, hard as that seemed to believe. Good bye at the channel, the long train ride across Europe to Athens, then the boat ride to Jaffa; these seemed only a prelude to what he would soon experience. Though he had spent much of his adult life in North Africa and