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| Head Of SHWA CEO of Southern Grave Diggers Magazine CEO of Southern Horror Publications |
About John Parker: John was born and raised in Western North Carolina.
Over the years his love for horror has driven him in many directions. Music,
art, short story writing, novels and screenplays. Currently his short story
collections is available in our book store. He is also working on a comic book
called "Fever", pushing his movie scripts "INK" and "The Cursed and the
Damned". Coming this fall "Banished" and "Fever"
Over the years his love for horror has driven him in many directions. Music,
art, short story writing, novels and screenplays. Currently his short story
collections is available in our book store. He is also working on a comic book
called "Fever", pushing his movie scripts "INK" and "The Cursed and the
Damned". Coming this fall "Banished" and "Fever"
| "Banished" Prologue “In the beginning…hmm, I don’t know if I even remember the beginning or if any of us would; I mean us angels of course.” “Oh, did I shock you? Yes I said angels.” “Well you are the one that decided to pick up this book for some reason and decided to read these words.” “I am not here to shock you of course, but however I am here to tell my story.” “Now since you know you are reading the words of one of his own I will go back to where I started at the beginning. Well that’s where I started this whole thing anyways wasn’t it? In the Beginning…those words were written for man not us as angels. I don’t even know if the oldest of us angels would even know when the true beginning really was and if they did would they actually tell anyone about it and your beginning well created in seven days. Not seven of your days of course, but seven days to us. Yes seven days to us, more life times than your pitiful little existence could even begin to imagine.” “Sorry about that, I did not mean to offend you or did I?” “ “Never mind, it doesn’t really matter anyways.” “You are here to read a story and I am rambling on. I like to do that from time to time. It seems to help pass the time for me. I’ve walked your earth for many years now since I was cast from his streets; living as human sometimes and as myself other times. But, I guess I have become bored with you and your kind.” “There I go adding another piece to this puzzle. Yes I am one of his fallen and no not because of some big war in Heaven as you might have been taught. There is no big struggle raging between the ones of us whom walk the earth and the ones who visit your earth and still reign on high. We who walk the earth are sinners just as you. Cast from his loving grace and lost from the Word. The Word…..it’s been so long since I have been touched by the word. Even as I have entered your synagogues, your temples and your churches I have still never felt the word since my eternal damnation to this dust bowl I walk upon now.” “Sorry had to pause on that for a moment. You humans never really knowing the word it is hard to explain what exquisite torture that it really is being without the word. Before the creation of earth and the heavens you know above there was darkness like you could never imagine. But, even that darkness doesn’t begin to compare to the darkness without the word. The word is all we knew from the beginning of our time and how to explain that to you complicates things for me. I mean I could try to explain, but I don’t know if I could ever justify how it truly feels to be without the word. I have watched mortal pain over the years over losing loved ones, over becoming crippled or even losing their minds. None of that compares to being without the word as some of you will find out.” “I will get own with my story. But, I thought I needed to explain a little since I let it slip out of what I was.” “Ok you want to know more about me do you? Well I guess there will be no harm in that. Even though most of the time we do hide in the shadows and watch. Ha….sorry I saw that question even in your eyes as you tried to hide it from me, what about divine intervention? What about it? It does exist, but not as much as you would like to think. We are bound by laws just as you are. Not as much so for us that walk the earth, but we are still bound by our laws by he whom governs down here. Yes I do mean the morning star, the first angel, the once loved more than any other…..Lucifer. He stepped down from Heaven in your first days here on this rock to govern and rule over you and us as we traveled back and forth from your world to the celestial heavens above. As you can see we don’t stop wars or do we start them; you are creatures of free will you know. We do not save the sick from dying even though we may have started a few plagues in our time fore to assume ourselves. There were no angels in the hallways during 911. It was all his will that things are carried out the way they are and we are not to intervene. So bound by law we do not step in when we are not supposed to step in.” “Ok, since I rambled on again I’ll finally break down and tell you who I am exactly. My name…..I have went by so many over the years I almost forgot my true name….well I think it was Keldron. Hmm….I think that sounds right. Ok we’ll go with that for now. My down fall you ask; well I took pleasures in man that was forbidden by heavenly law. I partook in the pleasures of man to say. Sex….yes sex was my downfall. The only thing you miserable hairless monkeys have to actually offer us. Ha….hairless monkeys. You know you never evolved from monkeys. Hell monkeys are smarter than most of you anyways. Monkeys don’t worry about how much electronic equipment they own, what kind of fancy cars they drive or what people think of them. They exist just like me. They exist just to exist. They don’t care which one is smarter than the other. They don’t care if gas prices rise tomorrow. They don’t even scurry about running from here to there trying to impress some over paid boss who cares nothing for them. But, you do. Like I said sex is the only thing you had to offer to us and some of us made it our downfall.” “Now you ask, do I know everything about you?” “Should I?” “It doesn’t work that.” “I can only see who you are as you stand in front of me. I can not read your mind; even though your eyes give away some of your questions and fears. But, I do not read minds; none of us do.” “Are there demons?” “I will tell you this on that matter. No there are not demons as your movies portray them. There are fallen angels and no we are not bound by mans laws. We do kill, we will harm those that intend to harm us and yes we do meddle from time to time just to have fun. There are also those of us who hate the human race with all of our existence. We hate that he created something to replace us in his eyes. Something he would love more than us, something that would tempt us and become to some of us our demise. Yes there are those of us who choose to take revenge for that upon your kind. So I guess you can say that jealousy is one of our greater sins also. But, why shouldn’t we despise your kind. You are nothing more than dust and water. You were never angelic in form and you are one of the most fragile things ever made. Ha…even trees live longer than you. Is that why you despise them and cut them down? I bet it is. The human mind now there is another thing to get off on at another time. I want go into that right now. Just that it is so apt to grab hold of anything and make it truth. So gullible your kind is. So trusting you are that you are willing to believe almost anything. Look at the leaders you follow. Look at the book you put your faith into; a book translated by man, words passed on through man by messengers from above. Do you not realize that when man wrote those words they wrote what they heard or wanted to hear? Then as time went on parts were lost, governments stepped in and distorted the truth. I tell you no lies here. I was there and they did. With each governing body throughout time they passed on what they wanted you to hear and what would help gain control over your kind.” “Ok calm down now. I can see the hate for me in your eyes as you read this. I am not here to cause you rage. I am here to tell you a story at some point of my existence here. I just felt like telling you the truth before I started. Like I said also I like to ramble. A gift of mine or a curse you can decide. But, you needed to hear the truth before we got started.” “Hate me if you will for telling you these truths. Because, I despise your kind; the more I have lived amongst your kind the more I have learned to hate you and the more sex with your kind sickens me also. The reason for my downfall and I have learned to hate that too.” “Ok, enough of this whole thing. I’m ready to tell you my story if you are still interested in hearing it. I’ll give you from day one. The day my banishment from heaven began and my life here on this earth began. I will not promise that this will be pleasant for you to read. I will not promise you will even get anything from this more than the words I have already told you. But, I will tell you a story. A story of an angel whom walked this earth in human forms more than he has walked in his own form. So if you are ready I am ready to begin this.” |