Echoes of The Beginning

By Justin Ladobruk

Humanity is tested. Our choices will shape our future, forever. Not even all the waters of the world will wash away the blood...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Justin Ladobruk
• Release date: Jan 24, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215772560

Justin Ladobruk

Justin Ladobruk is a husband, father, and shit magnet. He and his wife, Lyndsay, and daughter, Aurora, live full time in a travel trailer. They adventure across North America and find work where they can. Justin writes short stories and works on novels in his spare time when he’s not working as a driver or dealing with renovations and vehicle maintenance. Lyndsay is an artist and makes the covers for Justin’s work, and provides the feedback that turns his drek into something interesting.

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Echoes of The Beginning

Justin Ladobruk

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Echoes of The Beginning Copyright © 2023 by Justin Ladobruk

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This story is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living, dead, or undead, is entirely coincidental.

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I have no beginning. I have no end. I cannot be described with mere words, though many have tried. You read books and think you know me. You pray to what you don't understand. You dismiss my very existence because it is easier than accepting what you cannot comprehend.

I am everything. I am nothing. I am the creator. I am the destroyer. I am order. I am chaos. I am life. I am death.

I am… that I am.

Let there be light.

. . .

Zaphkiel stood silently beside the Creator's corporeal form as the sun shone brightly in the sky overhead. The ocean's breeze made their robes flutter. It wasn't often that the angels were permitted to enter the material universe, though many had no desire to enter it if they could avoid doing so. But as the keeper of knowledge, Zaphkiel relished the chance to study Creation, especially the wondrous creatures that had emerged on so many far flung worlds.

But it wasn't the creatures in the ocean or the bugs crawling along the beach that interested the celestial entities on that day. Rather, they were watching the edge of a marsh