But did you die?

Happy Thanksgiving folks! As promised here is the second part of the prologue for the upcoming Jonah book.  In this section we introduce the other two main players in the book.  I hope you enjoy and know that I am so thankful that I have you all to encourage me and give me feedback.  You can reread part one here . *****             The town of Khorsabad was located on the outskirts of the Nineveh province.  It was a rural town that once held a mighty fortress.  The town was in the midst of rebirth.  One could see new construction alongside of four hundred year old homes.  It was a town of transition with a population that was ever fluctuating.  The staple of the town, fishing, had been dwindling ever since several factories were built to the north, but the factory did bring several jobs, which was why the town was growing for the first time in a generation.  Along the western side of the town r...

Several months ago I had an idea.   I found myself skimming over whole passages in the Old Testament and I began to wonder why. Are they boring?  No. Am I missing the context?  Sometimes. Is it because they were stories that I had heard hundreds of times?  Yep. I then realized that there are probably plenty of people like me, people who find it easy to skip whole sections of the Bible because they were stories they had heard before. I began to wonder if there was a way I could help myself and others read these stories with "with new eyes." The idea that I came up was to retell these "old stories" in a new way; a way that hopefully people could relate to.  This is the first section of the prologue in my upcoming novel based on the book of Jonah.  I hope you enjoy and would love any feedback. ********************             He looked at himself in the mirror.   When did I get so old?  The p...