The Moment Trilogy: Finding Atahualpa's Treasure, Moment in the Minster, Millennium Moment

By Martin Litherland

These three short stories are about life-changing moments in the lives of three fairly flawed and unheroic characters. There is our Steve, lacking self-esteem, but finding Atahualpa’s Treasure in the Andes of Ecuador; there is our sex-bomb Freda with her Damascene moment in York Minster; and, finally, there is our self-centred Mike who meets his destiny at the Millennium Hour in the Bear at Bisley. Read how these moments changed their lives for ever.

• Language: English
• Publisher: S & S P Publishing
• Release date: Nov 19, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310189142

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The Moment Trilogy

by

Martin Litherland

The Moment Trilogy

by

Martin Litherland

Copyright © 2015 by Martin Litherland

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The Moment Trilogy

CONTENTS

Introduction

Finding Atahualpa’s Treasure

Moment in the Minster

Millennium Moment

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Introduction

These three short stories are about life-changing moments in the lives of three fairly flawed and unheroic characters. There is our Steve, lacking self-esteem, but finding Atahualpa’s Treasure in the Andes of Ecuador; there is our sex-bomb Freda with her Damascene moment in York Minster; and, finally, there is our self-centred Mike who meets his destiny at the Millennium Hour in the Bear at Bisley. Read how these moments changed their lives for ever.

Finding Atahualpa’s Treasure

Steve opened his eyes, stretched, and yawned to stop his head splitting. Where am I? he wondered as he turned over in a seemingly rickety bed to confront a girl sleeping on the other pillow. And who is she? His brain tried to reach back, his heart pumping loudly in his ears. Then his mind suddenly woke up to where he was: in a scruffy hotel in Baños, Ecuador; and who she was: the girl from the hotel; and why on Earth was he here: this is the day I am to set off to find Atahualpa’s Treasure. Steve groaned, his mind clearing a little more: I had planned it all so well and now what a bloody mess I’m in.

He staggered out of bed to the toilet and then flopped back in again, trying to remember how it had all started: it was after his divorce when he had decided to get a new life: new friends and interests: he had gone to an Adult Education session in Loughborough where the speaker, a Dr Kelvin James, had talked on the geology and history of the Llanganates mountains of Ecuador and the possibility of finding King Atahualpa’s treasure in a cave in the limestone mountains. After the session, Dr James had explained to him that many people had tried