The Chosen One E-Book

Simone Roncucci

• Herausgeber: Youcanprint
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2012

Beschreibung

An accident at Auschwitz extermination camp will lead Conrad on a supernatural tour through Italian history, from Gladiators until Nasiriyah.A tour involving himself in everlasting memory of our heros.

Leseprobe

Simone Roncucci

THE CHOSEN ONE

To those who have suffered firsthand

the unfolding events of history

§

The leather suitcase on his bed was waiting for more clothes: a whole wardrobe to take with him for that visit to Auschwitz, awaiting Conrad early the next day, at dawn.

“That should be everything,”he thought to himself as he rested one knee on his carryall, his companion which had come along with him on many adventures. He was getting set to close its hard zipper, which had become slightly rusted and worn over time.

The classic closing sound of the zipper reminded him of his stomach growling when he was hungry. It was already 8:00 p.m. in that Tuscan farmhouse too big for him.

Conrad Palet was about a forty-five year old man, 1.75 meters tall, with a scruffy beard, who loved wearing jeans, tennis shoes, weathered raincoats, and a large black wool hat to make the black silhouette more mysterious.

Having become too noisy, the farmhouse where he lived, which belonged to his parents, became his hiding place from the world at the time of their death,

He went into the kitchen: the fire was crackling in the fireplace along with the wood stove where he was finishing cooking bread and mushroom soup on a very old aluminum pan. It was a recipe that had been handed down through many generations.

It was his favorite dish his mother made with tender loving care for Sunday lunch. After a long week of work in town, having to wake up early in the morning, she would prepare delicious dishes, bringing her family together on that day when they would all meet, that day of rest, with not only Conrad’s parents, but also with his brother John, a few years older, who lived overseas in New York together with his family.

Conrad took a cloth napkin to remove the pan from the heat.

The delicious smell of steaming soup pervaded the kitchen. He sat on a woven straw chair, poured a glass of wine, and put a piece of fruit next to his plate and began eating his meal.

He had a light dinner for a very-much-needed refreshing sleep. Conrad often participated in organized visits to places where history had marked humanity’s destiny and dreams since the beginning of time. He was a real history lover, whose enormous curiosity sometimes made him a sinister and mysterious character.

The day after, he had to wake up early in the morning for a long trip to Poland, to a place exactly sixty kilometres from Krakow: Oświęcim, Auschwitz in Germany.

After finishing his dinner and rearranging the table, he sat facing the fire for a moment to allow his food to digest: the weight of the larger burning logs crushed the smaller ones