Extraordinary Circumstances: 1 The League of Red-Eyed Gentlemen

By Stephen B5 Jones

1 The League of Red-Eyed Gentlemen
Hanich was too sickly, and was nearly too old to acquire an apprenticeship. So when he was offered a position in a soup kitchen in a run down neighborhood he thought it the most extraordinary thing he would ever experience.
He was wrong.
Welcome to the Kitchen, where comfort is offered, even to those in the most extraordinary of circumstances.
A Christian Steampunk Experience

Extraordinary Situations is a story told in eleven episodes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stephen B5 Jones
• Release date: Jun 23, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311635976

Stephen B5 Jones

Husband, Father, Philosopher, Bus Driver, Writer. Missionary.. but that's just today. I grew up in the U.S. southwest. I've been writing, sometimes coherently, since Jr. High. That was a long time ago.

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Extraordinary Circumstances

Episode One: The League of Red-eyed Gentlemen

Stephen B5 Jones

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Hanich the Prayer

The Kitchen

The League of Red-eyed Gentlemen

Miss Sonya’s Teapot Shop

The Ghost Thief

Hanich the Prayer

Hanich Argus did not like to pray. Of all the activities in the world it was his least favorite. He had so many other things to do, and it was high time for him to start. He wasn’t one to study in dank rooms at the school, or suffer under the indignation of one of the sisters at Sunday meeting. Hanich was a young man who needed to be outside, to make his hands filthy with work and to be under the sky from the early dawn to the first evening star.

Unfortunately he was rarely granted permission to be outside of their large house sitting on three full acres. He was not allowed near the trees at all. He wasn’t allowed to play in the spacious grass yard. He certainly was not allowed to work in the vegetable garden, with its ten rows of vegetables and one row of popcorn, or even the flower garden.

His mother could not see how imperative such things were to the well-being of the world. She told Hanich he was too small, that he did not have the constitution for any manner of strenuous activity. He had been given an extraordinary mind, she said, one which noticed every detail. He was created for better things than simple manual labor.

Elder Dan had been impressed when he’d asked the class to memorize the first chapter of John, and Hanich had asked if he intended for them to remember all fifty-one verses. Hanich sometimes remembered the oddest details. At first Elder Dan thought he was cheating somehow when Hanich knew the numbers of verses for every chapter in John. He felt much better when the young man could not duplicate his uncanny knowledge for the chapters in Matthew. Hanich had yet to read those. He also could not, unfortunately, remember many of the particulars in the content of the book of John. It would have spared him a lot of