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    Gifts From The Stars
    Gifts From The Stars
    Gifts From The Stars
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    Gifts From The Stars

    By James Octavo

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    When brilliant gemstones and colorful crystals begin appearing in seemingly random places starting on a Pacific beach, then in a California forest, they cause excitement. People think the gems are valuable jewels. But as the gems appear in more places, they cause chaos and danger. Why are they appearing? What are they? Who is doing it? Follow scientists Dan Ophelder and Nora Jonston as they race to find the answer and face the source of the ominous objects.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJames Octavo
    Release dateDec 11, 2015
    ISBN9781311901941
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      Gifts From The Stars - James Octavo

      Gifts From The Stars

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      James Octavo

      Published by James Octavo

      Distributed by Smashwords

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

      Other Titles by James Octavo

      ‘The Legend of Lor’s Lost Tribe’

      and

      ‘When Is A Video Game No Game’

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 - California

      Chapter 2 – Nevada

      Chapter 3 – Utah

      Chapter 4 – Colorado and Kansas

      Chapter 5 – Dog Days in More Kansas

      Chapter 6 – We’re Not In Missouri Anymore

      Chapter 7 – Ground Zero

      Afterword and Other Titles

      Chapter 1 – California

      Out of a California forest, more than a dozen whooping and hollering people come running. They each carry colorful gem-like crystals of various sizes from pebbles to baseballs. All the pieces sparkle with various colors and intensity of colors from aquamarine, minty cubes to lemony citrine. They have diverse shapes from hexagons to spheres to octagons.

      Even dogs carry the glistening pieces in their mouths, running toward a clearing where other people sit at wooden picnic tables.

      Let's see what you got there, a white-haired man says while his dog runs to him with a orange cylinder. Behind the dog, a teenager with a yellow pyramid follows and falls exhausted on the bench.

      You won't believe this, gramps, the boy says as the man takes the cylinder from the dog's mouth.

      There are thousands of these in the woods. Everyone's picking them up. What do you think they are?

      Hmm. It feels like a gem. He pulls out reading glasses, squints his eyes and rubs them. I must be seeing things. They look like the crystals I saw on the news yesterday.

      On the news?

      Yeah. People at a Pacific beach thought they were rich when they saw baubles like this washing ashore.

      Were they?

      Don't know. The news lady said they brought some to a gemologist. But still no answer.

      "Where’d they come

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