Helen James & Fall from Grace

By J Maxwell

It was a fine autumn day and Helen James was happy. Due to her last adventure to the Cytadul Galaxy with the ‘Visitants’, the Universe was intact. Today her year at school was going on a field trip to Beachy Head.
Helen always enjoyed school trips and had enjoyed her picnics on Beachy Head with her parents, before her father was killed in a car accident some years ago.
With her best friend Joan, they had devised a way in which they could get off the school coach first and race up to the edge of the cliff, so they could take photos of the Lighthouse, some 600 feet below.
All was going well with Joan was taking a photo of Helen and the Lighthouse when a gust of wind overbalanced Helen. As she transferred her weight to her right leg the ground under her foot gave way and she toppled over the cliff.
As Helen she started to fall towards the base of the cliff some 600 feet below she called out for “Hyming”. Why she should expect him to be close by she had no idea but the next thing she knew she was being engulfed by the blue haze of Hyming and lifted up into the sky and away.
This was not a rescue for she was needed at the Lambret Galaxy she was on her third adventure as a ‘Good’. Helen was being taken to the planet Chrilren in the Ewetert star system.
No young had been born on this planet for the last 10 years and soon the mothers would not be able to bring any young to life. Without young the planet would die.
Helen protested to Zacred, the ‘Visitants’ leader, that she was to young to be able to help and she did not understand these things but he insisted that as she was a ‘Good’ she could do it.
There were 3 separate beings on this planet, the mothers, the farmers and the builders. To produce young the builders had to meet with the mothers and then, 2 weeks later the farmers had to meet with them. The mothers would go into a trance and think of the young they were going to produce, some time later that young would be produced.
The problem was that under the instructions of the mothers leaders, no young farmers were being born so the farmers had refused to participate in the process of producing the young for the planet.
Helens task was to get the 3 different beings to realise the problem they were causing and the effects to their planet if they did not change their ways.
When Helen left Chrilren, she felt she had failed not only them but she soon had her own problems. Hyming always left Helen where he had found here. Today that was at the start of her 600 foot drop from the top of the cliffs at Beachy Head, to the beach below. Just in time Helen realised what he was about to do and asked him to place her on the beach. Now what was she to do?

• Language: English
• Publisher: J Maxwell
• Release date: Jul 17, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311361226

J Maxwell

J.J. Maxwell is an entrepreneur who enjoys writing between (and often during) business ventures. Mostly a writer of screenplays, Along the Darksome Road is his first non-fiction novel. From a family of ardent readers, enjoyment of the written word seems to be in his genes, since his paternal grandfather was a rotogravure pressman for the New York Daily News (amongst other newspapers) and his great-grandfather and great-uncle were also in the newspaper business.

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Helen James

&

Fall from Grace

By

J.J. Maxwell

Helen James & Fall from Grace

First published in Great Britain in 2016

By R. J. Looker Publications

SmashWords Edition 

Copyright © Robert J.M. Looker 2016

The right of J.J. Maxwell to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by Robert J.M. Looker, in accordance with the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988

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Other books in this series

The Yunkery Problem

Peace ?

Fall from Grace

Dedications

My wife - for her continued support

My Grand Daughter - for being the apple of my eye.

Special thanks to:-

Elizabeth (15)

Thanks for reading the book and I’m pleased that you enjoyed the story and said that it was a good read.

Table of Contents

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Chapter1

Chapter2

Chapter3

Chapter4

Chapter5

Chapter6

Chapter7

Chapter8

Chapter9

Chapter10

Chapter11

Chapter12

Chapter13

Family_Feud

Meettheauthor

Preface

This is the 3rd story about 9 year old Helen James who lives with her widowed mother and elder sister on the South coast of England.

Her first adventure, ‘The Yunkery Problem’ happened after she was sent to the naughty step for not eating cauliflower at dinner.

The second adventure, ‘Peace?’ started while she was at her Nan’s house and was sent to give a message to a neighbour.

On both occasions a blue haze wrapped itself around her and took her up into the sky. Before she realised what was happening she was passing the moon and streaking across the Milky Way. In seconds she was passing many different galaxies in the universe. The blue haze was ‘Hyming’, a ‘Visitant’.

The ‘Visitants’ patrol the universe. When they find a Galaxy, Star System or planet heading for destruction, they bring in a ‘Good’ to put it right.

Helen James is a ‘Good’.

Chapter 1 - Help, I’m falling

Today was one of the days that Helen James enjoyed most. At school, her year was going on a field trip. Today it was to Beachy Head.

She borrowed her granddad’s digital camera for this trip. Helen wanted to prove that she could take just as good a photo as he could.

From an early age she had been to Beachy Head but mainly with her grandparents. Initially just for picnics, but later she would walk with her granddad who would point out places of interest.

There was excitement on the bus to school. All her friends were talking about the trip and what they were going to do.

Once in class Miss Jackson tried to take the register but the children wanted to get to the coaches.

We won’t be going anywhere until I’ve taken the register, she shouted.

This got their attention and very soon she had the register marked off and they could leave the classroom.

They filed out of the class and headed for the coaches in the school car park.

Helen sat with her best friend Jane, towards the front of the first coach. They wanted to be the first off the coach once they reached Beachy Head. The boys were more interested in seeing who would get a seat at the back.

The journey over to Beachy Head was noisy. Some of the boys were still fighting to get the rear seats. A male teacher went to the back, moved one of the more boisterous boys to a seat at the front and then he took the boy’s seat.

A group of girls were singing various songs and the rest were looking through the papers they had all been given for the field trip.

Because the first part of the visit was to view the Lighthouse, the coaches were asked to stop at one of the car parks further along the road from the actual coach park. This would allow the teachers to keep better control of the children because they wouldn’t be spread out too far.

Joan was the first one off the coach with Helen close behind her.

Mrs Jenkins, one of the other teachers from their year, shouted after them to wait until everyone was off the coach, before they went over to the cliff edge.

Helen and Joan were not listening. They wanted to be the first to say that they had spotted the Lighthouse, 200 metres feet down from the top of the chalk cliff.

The teachers from the two coaches gathered all the children together and did a head count. They knew how many were on each coach so needed to ensure that they were all accounted for now that they had arrived.

I make it 78, Mr Graham said.

But there should be 80, Miss Jackson said.

Are you sure?

Yes. 80 got on to the coaches at the school.

Right let’s count them again. This time they can all walk past us and we will count them again, Mr Graham said.

It took a few minutes to get this second count organised and the count made. It was 78.

It was then that Karl said that had seen Joan and Helen running off towards the top of the cliff.

While the rest of their year were still getting organised, Helen and Joan had run around the coach up onto the grass and were soon hidden from view by the gorse bushes.

It took them only a couple of minutes to reach the edge of the cliff. They looked, and to their right was the red and white stripped lighthouse.

I must get a picture of this, Helen said, as she switched on the camera and looked through the view finder.

She took four pictures and then checked them on the small screen at the back of the camera. She wasn’t at all happy with what she got. Helen then remembered the instructions her granddad had given her on how to get the best photos. She adjusted the various dials and buttons and then re-took the photos. She was a lot happier with these.

Joan, can you use mine to take a photo?

I don’t know how to use a camera like that, Joan protested.

Helen was not being put off by that. She handed her the camera.

"Look, you just look through here and then adjust the lens so