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2012
Twenty-one year old Sharayah
Dubois was adopted
at nine-years of age by Rick and Marge Wyatt late in their lives when they finally came to grips with the death
of their only child Dick as a teenager. To celebrate her milestone birthday, they have invited her to share
the first three weeks of their six-week ‘Second Honeymoon’. Shortly after her return Stateside, to stay with
Marge's elderly father, so as not to miss the first week of classes, a jihadist attack by young militants on the isolated Dubai Island used by Westerners
and their supporters becomes a horrific reality for the quiet twenty-one-year old college sophomore and her family. . While eluding capture with her husband Rick, Marge Wyatt
accidentally drops their only connection: a cell phone, in a seldom-used hallway. It's brought to the older leader of the teen Jihadists who uses it to convince her father Drew Slocomb they already
hold the couple hostage and that his total surrender to them is the only condition
for the safe release of his beloved daughter and of his son-in-law. He flies publicly to the Island, while Sharayah
follows secretively; accompanying an Israeli agent assigned to sneak in and release them privately, without the outside world
being any the wiser. Sharayah is shocked to discover that her mild-mannered grandfather is nothing
like the man she always assumed, but then, neither are her parents! Even the volcanic
bedrock below the hotel holds its share of secrets! .
But when the bloody siege extends to a third day no one outside
the building suspects the delay is unintentional! The original goal to attract sufficient foreign journalists to witness the
death of Andrew Wyatt and then inflict the maximum amount of terror that a mere seven member terrorist cell could hope to
accomplish, by exploding a ‘dirty’ bomb to destroy the island, casting up as much radioactive debris around the
world in the atmosphere as possible with a limited amount of plutonium, is delayed by the accidental discovery
of a secret cache of guns, ammunition, missiles, grenades and rocket launchers hidden in caves carved under the hotel that
is secretly owned by the Wyatt family! The attackers must hastily gather a flotilla of local boats to remove and hide the
vast army-sized store of guns and ammunition without drawing the attention of the reporters they have lured to the
tropical paradise, who are now bored with the endless stalemate. . During
the course of the story, the Reader is drawn deeper and deeper into the internal realities of the conflict until no one is
left to stop the final connection and detonation of the Jihadist’s determined march toward martyrdom but Shaw and her
wounded father Rick!
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Saturday, November 12th, 2011 7:15 pm PST Shalom Dear Ones,
I was at my favorite Safeway Store in the Valley, picking up the last of what I need for Thanksgiving Dinner
where I met a lovely young woman at the Starbuck's Coffee kiosk and she graciously gave me permission to
use her first name, Sharayah, named by her Mom from a Nineteen Eighty's song
by Christian singer Amy Grant, and that has given an entire new outlook to "A Necessary Portal", breathing a vitality
into it that I hadn't seen possible by simply making the protagonist slightly older, and therefore more resourceful in the
face of a crisis. It also opens an entire new avenue of action and needing to be dependent on the LORD. I mean, a wealth of
ideas struck me as soon as I got up....the snow has finally arrived, so that also helps with the aches and pains. So many of Thee are staying in touch that now that I have an
active book I think I will stay on line through till Christmas and Hanukkah. The
LORD 'promised' in my deepest prayer time that "2012 will be the year that changes everything" and
as I've struggling to get back to this summer's precious, precious time I've also been looking forward - Twenty Twelve is
just weeks away, so why wait until the stroke of Midnight on December Thirty first to start prayerfully waiting for the change
to begin? Right? These last three weeks have been a struggle but that only means you're working toward something. Grandmother
used to say that Satan has limited resources and he only uses them against people who are blocking him, so even though I didn't
guess yet this book was rising to the surface, it suggests that I'm certainly headed in the right direction! The application
will be received on Monday, but they have a two-year waiting list....sigh...but I have lots to do to fill the time before
I have to worry about moving to a new house.
So, I've had my shot and I'm about to eat, then I'm going to work on the new Messianic Jewish Faith-and-Action story. In the
meantime, if thee stop by, please take my wishes for the loveliest weeks ahead for thee, whether you celebrate a national
days of Thanksgiving or not [made formal by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863....] and may the dreams of your heart always
rise to the surface when you least expect it!!!
Respectfully, your older sister in the risen Lord,
Asia
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Tuesday, December 6th,
2011 When I realized I wanted to bring in the grown daughter
of a new character who's adding so much to the story and it's new theme of the reason BEHIND the attack, I went back to ask
Jen, my favorite Salesperson at the Valley Safeway STARBUCKS,
if she would mind if I used her name? For years she's been patiently listening to me talk about my website, and I
was really embarrassed that I hadn't thought to ask her! Luckily, she was quick to say yes and not hold a grudge.
This will allow me to explore a whole new area for the protagonist as I discovered I could explain the unwittingly delay by
making use of it with a 'secret' I can't wait to explore!! Asia
Though inspired by recent
events, this story is fictional. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
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