Contemned, is the story of a scorned woman named Genesis and her revelation after she missed the rapture. The revelation of true evil lying in wait to expose itself within each and every one left on earth. Genesis thought she was a Christian and knew she would be saved. She attended church every Sunday. She is a divorced mother of two kids, a teenage boy called BJ and an eight year old daughter called JoJo. Gen is a hard worker with an average social life. Upon her mother's request, she opened her home to her sister and her two younger children. She thought she was handling the stress just fine. She hadn't killed her ex-husband and his Bimbo Barbie's and her estranged, man-hungry, unsocialable, not quite divorced yet sister who was driving her insane daily. She even sung in the choir at her church, but none of that mattered. She still missed the rapture. It was an average day. Genesis was looking forward to the night. She and her girlfriends were going to DJ's Blue Note Caf� to listen to the poetic sound of spoken words by the featured spoken word artists. It was the true blues scene, the bass player wearing his dark shades, the sax player, oh my God that man is hot, the drummer, and the artists expressing the inner feelings and thoughts she dare not say. Mix the element with a couple of glasses of White Zinfandel and maybe a shot of Patron or E&J, depending on the mood and it becomes chill time. It wasn't until the next morning when her son rushed into their home asking, screaming that she realizes something is terribly wrong. "Why didn't God take us Mom, why?" BJ kept repeating. The rapture had come and gone and questions are overwhelming her ability to think. What happens next is the only thought on Genesis mind. Her curiosity of why she was not taken haunted her soul. Her mother had been her link to heaven, and now her mother, JoJo and Bri's kids were gone. Follow them through their struggle with self-identity and trials and tribulations to escape from a satanic world. The mark of the beast is all around them as they attempt to travel from Texas to Israel. How will they survive and will they make it?

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CONTEMNED

By M. LEWIS RYAN

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Copyright � 2011 M. LEWIS RYAN
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4634-1659-1

CHAPTER I THE RAPTURE: Like a thief in the night.........................................1CHAPTER II THE DENIAL: Sheep without a shepherd..........................................30CHAPTER III THE LEAP YEAR DAD: I know you NOT............................................44CHAPTER IV THE JOURNEY BEGINS: Take up your cross and follow me..........................65CHAPTER V THE CAPTAIN: Captain, my captain...............................................75CHAPTER VI THE JOURNEY THROUGH EUROPE: Big brother is watching...........................91CHAPTER VII THE ANSWER: ISRAEL...........................................................100CHAPTER VIII THE BEGINNING: For I am the beginning and the end...........................111APPENDIX THE POST RAPTURE SURVIVAL GUIDE: A Message from Kurt Seland.....................117ABOUT THE AUTHOR.........................................................................135

Chapter One

It was a long hot summer's day today, in Houston, Texas. The land that God blessed with his own hands seemed to be the vacation spot for Satan and his crew. The temperature kept rising and so did everyone's temper. Driving home is like going on an adventure with all the traffic and road repairs there are around town. More and more people are moving to Houston every day. I know the city isn't fixing all the roads at the same time. It takes them three years, just to complete one, and with all of the layoffs, there are not enough employees to do the necessary repairs.
Why can't anyone find a job these days? I passed five people under the age of twenty seven living beneath the freeway overpasses asking for money at the stop lights today. What is this world coming to that it hasn't reached?
Finally, I've made it home, thank you God. It is a blessing to have a home to come to. There are so many people losing their homes to eviction and foreclosures today more than ever. However, I can't park in my driveway and open my door before the neighborhood crack head comes asking me for money. Who do these people think I am? I won the Range Rover in the divorce, along with the house and everything in it, including the kids. That's what happens when you catch your husband cheating on you. I guess I understand why they think I have something.
Oh, I knew I should have stopped and gotten a pizza. No one has cooked a thing as usual. Well, it is a macaroni and cheese night tonight. I am so tired of grownups not being responsible! Why must I come home every day to a dirty house? Probably because they know that I will clean it again and again.
At least the house is quiet for once. It hasn't been this quiet in a while. I may as well turn on the news. I call it my daily soap opera. It always has something intriguing to see and hear. It has all the elements, murder, theft, drunk drivers, car chases, shoot outs, tornados, hurricanes, floods and fires.
What? No news today. Oh, our President is making yet another speech. These days I can't get away from him and his speeches. They pop up on my computer when I check my email, and I receive emails from him. Before he became President, I didn't even know his name.
I never have thought much about the political scene. All I see is the President making promises, and never delivering positive results. He uses the media to make the public think the way he wants us to think and to see only what he wants us to see. He has more broken promises on his record than my leap year dad. I call my dad leap year because I only heard from him every four years. He would make a promise and never keep it. He must have died. It's been seven years now since I heard from him. I don't think I told him about my kids, his grand kids. I wouldn't have wanted him appearing in their lives only to disappear again, leaving me with all the broken promises that he would never have kept anyway.
Awe! Once again the President is promising jobs. I wish I could afford to live in the dream state where he resides and I am not talking about Washington DC. Pretty soon, there won't be anyone left in the city that will need a job because they are all going to kill one another. There are so many people dying from the heat in their homes because they are too old to live alone and it cost too much for them to move to one of those senior living centers. The young ones are running amuck, they have absolutely no direction and no sense of pride. They will rob you while you're taking out your trash. The only good thing is you have time to shoot them while they are trying to escape because their pants are too low for them to run. There may as well be jeans made with boxers already attached. I wonder if anyone has thought about that as a money maker yet.
It would be nice to have new jobs. If my pay decreases any more from pay cuts, I will be paying the transit center to work. I swear it feels like I should be allowed to claim my job as a dependent. I have been a bus driver for seventeen years and I never remember it being as hard as it is now. The new insurance plan is coming up with some type of monitoring device. They say it's as simple as getting a flu shot. The only bad thing is it leaves a mark like the smallpox vaccine does. It looks like three tear drops kind of in a circle. I don't want it. I hate needles. HR says everyone will have to get it soon for identification. There are so many people stealing identities these days.
I already gave up driving on the holidays because of the law that says if you refuse a breathalyzer the police have the right to take your blood. I know I didn't vote for that so it was obviously squeezed in on me. I wonder what new bill became a law while I slept last night. What's the deal with needles, geez? Yeah that is my real objection, the needles. Why can't they make vaccines in pill form?
God I am tired. I don't know if it's from the heat of the sun or the continuous driving. That bus door opens and closes all day long and the wheels on the bus go round and round. If I hear another kid singing that song I swear I'll commit harry-carry like a Japanese Warrior.
I have too much to do before I go to bed tonight. Today was a full day, but every Monday is a full day in this house. In the morning I thank God for a new morning and for the new chance to live a sin-free life. I pray every day for same thing. It seems like I learn something I thought I already knew each new day. I can't help but wonder where have I been all of my life? I know that sounds crazy, but I also realize I am not the only one who wonders that same thing. I hear preachers talking on television about the end of the world coming. The weather is bad everywhere and there is more and more corruption, confusion and wars than ever before. I go to church and do my best to be a Christian.
I try to make each day sin free and I fall short most days. I cannot make it through driving to work without cursing at someone and then asking for forgiveness. I am usually in a rush and I have absolutely no time for some slow driver. Besides that, my air went out in my car and it is going to cost an arm and a leg to get it fixed. Don't get me started on the price of gas! My alarm sounds at 5:30AM Monday through Friday. I roll out of bed and onto my knees to pray. By the time I am showered and out of the house my morning prayer turns into: Stop riding my ass! Get out of my way! Bright lights, Are you serious!!! Then I have to pray again, because my thoughts for the other drivers on the road are anything but nice and Christ-like. Satan is busy...

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