The Quarry Event

By Richard F. Garipoli, Jr.

A crazy world! People missing, People not caring.....and a small town that has unsolved deaths, missing persons, and supernatural activity between good and bad going on throughout the story. Things go crazy for a vacationing detective from the big city, and a small town Sheriff as death after death occurs without any explanation, until 2 beings appear and look out!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tablo Publishing
• Release date: Mar 31, 2021
• ISBN: 9781649696526

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Rich is married to Irene for 42 years. He has two adult sons, 5 grandchildren, and keeps busy here at the Lebanon Rescue Mission, Lebanon, PA where he is the Director of Development and he gets to work with an awesome group of professionals. He has been involved on a national level for law Enforcement, spending most of his 35 years in the City of Reading as an Officer, Criminal Investigator, Supervisor of the Criminal Investigations Division, then Director of Training for the City of Reading. In 2001 He was asked to take over as the Chief of Police in a small community in Lancaster County, retiring in 2010. He was a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police Training Committee, has assisted communities in selecting their chief of police, and has earned numerous awards for law enforcement activities. 

Rich has been a member of Sertoma for many years, taking on the role of President of the Lebanon Valley Sertoma Club in 2014 and still holding this position in 2021. He is a Communications Specialist for Sertoma, Inc. 

He has an Associate’s degree in Police Science, a Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice Administration, and a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA). He has taught at local colleges, including Penn State University in their Justice and Safety Institute. He has developed Leadership courses for numerous agencies, speaking at different organizations over the past 15 years, and has been asked to evaluate numerous agencies for efficiency, as an employee of the PA Governor’s Office. 

Rich sits on the Advisory board for the PA Karate Hall of Fame, Chair of the Marketing Committee, and has sat on boards for Arbor Place, a Youth Center in Lancaster, PA. Rich was the Co-Chair of the Pennsylvania Law Enforcement Accreditation Commission, and was the Chairman 

This short story is dedicated to my wife, Irene and my two sons, Christopher & Nicholas, whom I love very much and have stood by me when things were tough. 

THE QUARRY EVENT By: Richard F. Garipoli, Jr.

The year is 2031. The planet is a mess. People are a mess. Wars, talks of wars, food shortages, political uprisings, neighborhood feuds, and families turning against each other. It was not a nice place to live anymore. Youth were of an entitlement culture, living off their families and life was about pleasing themselves, looking good on camera, and feeding their egos as they searched for more and more luxuries. If you did not fit the mold, you were an outsider. Media controlled everything. No one could explain the missing millions of people from the earth. Open graves, people missing from their homes, and workplaces. Families were broken apart due to divorces, mothers, children, and fathers missing and there was no explanation. People really did not care. Their lives were more important, and they had pride in themselves. Image was everything. People were destitute and many were drunks. Church going was cold. The government wanted that to happen. People who called themselves Christians were swept up in the movements and believed the narratives being brought forth. New leadership coming from overseas and it seemed as if problems were being solved. It was no big deal for a person to make a false accusation about someone if they wanted to ruin their character. The big thing in this age was free will, and local pastors preached all about it in their messages. Vehicles of all sorts laid abandoned, destroyed, including airplanes that were buried into the ground from impact. You could smell death in the air. Communities were no longer safe havens, and people were in despair. Life went on as if normal. The people wondered about the missing people, but the main leader from overseas had a good explanation and the masses were satisfied. 

The planet had its share of issues. Earthquakes, tornadoes and hurricanes swept the continents and people were dying everyday as a result. Food shortages, fuel rationing, polluted water and no rain in the forecast. Countries were at war with each other and kingdoms were falling as new ones were being created. Politics of all nations was turning into a dictatorship and it seemed as if one man was taking over. The country