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Core Beliefs – Chapter 37 - The Set Up Chris and Charley reached the Myoplex facility and were greeted at the door by the entire management team. “You are our greatest hope to give Matthew Lehman his life back,” Chris stated. “It will require all of us to do extraordinary things, but we’ve done that before, and we will do it again!” His last words hit those in attendance with such force that people were ready to run through walls, Charley included. The group's response an

Core Beliefs – Chapter 36 - Change of Venue Half an hour after entering the hospital administrator’s office, they emerged. Chris watched the three tread toward him. Joe’s expression and mannerisms showed he fumed in silent rage. Ling stomped down the hall, livid. On the other hand, Marcus appeared quiet and withdrawn. When they gathered, Joe angrily recounted the proceedings, how, instead of working towards a compromise, the Administrator threatened to ban Ling from the pr

Core Beliefs – Chapter 35 - Broken Man The hospital’s doctor reached the nurses’ station at ten after the hour. Marcus asked Ling to let him make the introduction. Ling nervously stood beside Marcus, fuming on the inside as the doctor gave her nasty side glances as he talked with Marcus. Every aspect of the doctors behavior was condescending. Marcus presented Ling and referenced her position and her prior work with the patient. He emphasized that she had flown in from Hous

Core Beliefs – Chapter 34 - Ling Frazzled. A little before 10:00 p.m., Marcus stepped toward the critical care unit of St. Lemmons Hospital. After being dismissed by the staff three times, he called Joe. “The hospital refuses to give me any information, Joe. I’m not family.” Frustration saturated every word. “Give me the name of whoever is giving you crap, and I’ll fax an authorization document.” Joe could not remember ever being so pissed. It took another two hours of b

Core Beliefs – Chapter 33 - Crushed Thick layers of ice coated the windows of Matt’s Buick. It took thirty minutes of defrosting and scraping before he pulled out of the empty parking lot. The weather had deteriorated, adding new layers of ice to the roads. Matt listened to the radio for traffic reports, hearing of new wrecks and power outages throughout the city. Traffic stalled in places. Matt decided to try the freeway. There were no reports of wrecks on the stretch he

Core Beliefs – Chapter 32 - Last Day as Matt. On October 3 rd , despite the ice on the sidewalks, Matt went for an exercise walk. He kept to the grass where possible to avoid slick sidewalks and streets as fine sleet fell. It wasn’t a great workout, but Matt had made the effort. Once home, he opened emails, groaned at the spam, and thought that if someone could truly figure out how to block it, they could make a fortune. A message from Lucy asked if Matt wanted to cancel t

Core Beliefs – Chapter 31 - New Power It was October 2nd. The weather had turned nasty. A freak ice storm rolled through the Midwest. Chris, Suchet, and Doug fitted the acrylic globe with the superconducting neodymium magnets. Each lab-quality magnet was ring-shaped, encased in a thermally insulated housing with fittings for the liquid nitrogen cooling system. Each assembly was almost 8 inches in diameter and four inches thick. It wasn’t the reason Suchet had ordered the A

Core Beliefs – Chapter 30 - New Key-New Door Suchet, Chris, Doug, and Ellie had been working long hours at a frantic pace. They were so close to starting the next round of experiments that it was almost impossible to get them to stop before midnight. When he could, Charley was there helping. *** On September 2nd, Suchet confirmed they were ready to go. With the modifications to the beam generator complete, they could control every frequency individually. Suchet proposed th

Core Beliefs – Chapter 29 - Wheels keep turning. Charley, Chris, and Doug completed the steel building the first week of August. With the harvest done, Eldridge had time to help, and he and Elvin made a tremendous difference in getting things finished. The roof was on, everything was watertight, and they cleared the scrub from inside the building. The plan was to level the ground inside and pour a concrete floor level with the silo entrance. Doug, Charley, and Chris had n

Getting closer to finishing Book Five of the Daniel series. Our internet went out, and with no distractions... (go figure) I sat down and pounded out another chapter and a half. Part of my struggle is this is the first Daniel book where I do not have a vision for the ending???? Which blows my mind because I have a clear vision for the start of book six. I've got the cover ready, most of the before and after content is wrapped. For the first time in a decade...Daniel's life lo