SWORD: Tales from the Green Sahara

What an interesting and unique approach to this historical/fictional/sci-fi tale! This is the story of a sword and its life through the ages as told by Abeth, the Sword’s conscience. The Sword was forged of metal stronger than any known at the time and was slightly curved at the tip. The hilt was loaded with many valuable colorful gems.

The story of this magnificent Sword opens in 223BC as a mercenary is fighting in Wales with the Sword he found when he was a boy. Throughout history, the possessors of the Sword are envied by their fellow soldiers; there’s a mystique about it. Legends abound about the Sword and by 1100AD, it was allegedly King Arthur’s Excalibur; by 1335, it had reached Africa; by the 1650’s, it was in the West Indies; by 1759, it was fighting in North America. By this time, it’s believed the Sword can guarantee its owner immortality. After the American Revolution, the Sword eventually found its way back to England and rested in a countryside museum for several hundred years. By 2201, many years after mankind has destroyed the ozone layer and some of the remaining of civilization is living in Domes, an Outsider has found the Sword, but loses it to a creature of the deep…where it still lies.

Abeth only knows what it has seen in battles since killing is its career. It is a fearsome dispenser of justice and vengeance as well as a sign of man’s power and responsibility.

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- Bonus Review -

Like the teachings of Jesus, the predictions of Michel de Nostradame, and the visions of Joseph Smith, it’s entirely possible that in a hundred years or so author Bob Miller’s diary entries about an angel named Zabar will serve their intended purpose.

In the meantime, humankind can at least enjoy the adventures of these two men, one being a simple farm boy from the backwoods of northwest Alabama and Zabar, an angel who is affectionately portrayed as a celestial Batman.

Zabar is quite a guy . . . dresses appropriately for every occasion, speaks well, and is very caring. But he has a big job to do, and if his matter-of-fact words of wisdom fall on deaf ears, watch out—he's not afraid to use the wrath of God to get his point across.

Some are receptive to him and his message, others aren't. These stories are a small sampling of events that take place around the world at every moment. Angel Zabar and the others like him stroll in and out of our lives like the wind. For lack of a better understanding and description, we simply refer to these events as miracles.

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