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grapher who has never ventured out of pennsylvania let alone embarked on an international treasure hunt david freeman is a gemologist who has done his share of prospecting but little of it within the boundaries of the law between them they have all the expertise necessary to solve the mystery they also have enough differences to derail even the best of partnerships and ahead are more obstacles fortune seekers equally qualified and every bit as determined the race spans two continents the finish line is in idar oberstein the gemstone capital of germany there in chambers beneath an old church where unspeakable events took place in centuries past winners and losers alike find answers to age old questions about the lost tavernier stones visit stephen here chapter one from adamant stone there s a dead guy out there kommissar gerd pfeffer first heard it from the dispatcher who was quoting the boys who found the body he repeated the phrase in his mind as he drove to the scene there s a dead guy out there it would make an appropriate epitaph he thought there had been lots of dead guys out there there would be lots more a narrow overgrown road led pfeffer into the holmmoor a bog north of hamburg thickets on either side of the road strummed his car in irritating chords not far ahead a gallery of rubberneckers some with binoculars peered into the woods the focus of their attention was half a dozen police officers huddled like marooned buccaneers under a tarpaulin they had erected on an island of stable ground pfeffer parked his car on the road because the rains had turned the berm into a purgatory of mud choked grass the rest of the trip would be on foot and cautiously he was crossing from the real world into the bog it was one of the oddest calls he had received during his career as a homicide detective two boys had spent the weekend camping in the bog on a patch of ground that had not yet thawed their campfire thawed it and combined with the heavy downpours of late as well as the strange temperature fluctuations of a typical hamburg spring up the body came first the boys said the peat began to crack a fissure radiated slowly outward from the center of the fire rending the mossy soil along a zigzag path as though etched by a lightning bolt fingers emerged from the crack the boys saw only their black tips and thought they were knobby roots or maybe pieces of glacial till the tips grew into appendages the appendages joined in a palm when a thumb finally appeared the boys extrapolated what lay beneath they laughed it couldn t be happening they rolled on the ground laughing their sides ached and their eyes filled with tears it was so funny then the realization sank in that here indeed was a human hand and following it now was an arm and soon to come no doubt was the rest some of which the head in particular might be too gruesome to behold they ran stumbling on rubbery legs their young minds filled with images of a root hairy dead man loping after them by the time the police arrived the arm had finished sprouting it jutted straight into the air flecked with peat its fingers splayed widely like the comic image of a drowning man counting to five the police immediately concluded the body was one of the so called bog people dozens of whom some more than two thousand years old had sprung out of the ground throughout that part of germany pfeffer stepped from one clump of grass to another advancing toward the tarpaulin walking on the peat gave him the sensation of unsure footedness as though he might sink up to his neck on any step he did sink four inches here eight inches there nothing there you never knew the water stained by the peat was the color of strongly brewed tea the bogs around hamburg had been disgorging iron age corpses for as long as pfeffer could remember humic acids in the peat acted as embalming fluids that stained hair and beards red and tanned skin black bones decalcified turning the corpses into leathery bags filled loosely with internal organs and a menu of last suppers typically barley and linseed gruel most strikingly features were so well preserved that except for the tanning a modern day public could see exactly what the victims looked like could stare them in the face they died with quiet dignity or cringing in horror some of them and the resignation or anguish or shock their expressions communicated at the moment of death when a relative or friend weighted them down in watery graves was preserved for the millennia as pfeffer reached the tarpaulin the rain started up again a young polizist emerged from under the tarp covering his head with a clipboard he greeted pfeffer with a firm handshake then led him safely around shaking pools of stained water the other officers remained under cover they stared in fascination at a lump of soggy human remains the victim for so they were calling the thing lay on his right side with his right arm stretched out straight above his head he resembled other bog people in that his skin had darkened to the value of burnt umber and his woolly hair and prickly beard were the color of rust and it was clear he had been murdered or sacrificed deep angular stab wounds perforated his chest and abdomen but his garb was more modern than that of other bog people who typically wore only sleeveless capes probably because the linen used for the rest of their outfits couldn t survive the peat acids pfeffer estimated the victim s clothing was from the middle ages or some other time long ago but clearly not the twenty first century he wore breeches that stopped just below the knee stockings over his calves and broad metal buckles on his shoes so it wasn t an ancient pagan sacrifice after all nor was it a recent murder an oval signet ring encircled the victim s right middle finger on the hand that had sprung up on the boys bezel set in the oval mount was a dark stone slab pfeffer used his thumbnail to scrape the ring clean of peat carved in the slab were the initials jc and an image of one woman helping another to place a basket of grapes on her head the young polizist had been watching him closely while he examined the body and as pfeffer inspected the ring the young man suggested jesus christ pfeffer shook his head he would put his own initials on a signet ring don t you think squatting in the spongy grass he surveyed the scene for a moment then asked have you turned him over we dug him up and laid him there otherwise he hasn t been touched i was waiting for you to arrive before i moved him you know how bent out of shape the anthropologists get when they find anything disturbed pfeffer thought the way the dead man clenched his left fist was odd as though he had been holding something dear to him when he died furthermore and this had been fermenting in the detective s subconscious the entire time there was just the hint of an amused smile on the man s face but surely that was only pfeffer s imagination or one of those ironic effects of the retarded rate of decay in the peat people did not in fact smile as they were being stabbed they didn t really he looked into the man s eye sockets they had obviously sunken since his death but it was nevertheless obvious they had been deep set to begin with and had done their share of glaring at lesser intellects pfeffer shivered as he experienced the sensation the cavities were looking back open it he ordered excuse me the fist pry it open the polizist motioned for another officer to step over and help him as they gently lifted the arm the young man said sir if i may are we doing this out of curiosity call it professional intuition i want to see what he held onto for dear life but the anthropologists open it getting the fingers to uncurl required the use of pocketknives the glinting red object that rolled onto the ground before the fist clamped tightly closed again caused the remaining officers to collide with one another as they evacuated their tarp shelter and pressed in for a closer look it also sent a buzz into the road kill gallery whose frustration over a dearth of news had only festered under the drizzling rain if pfeffer hadn t known better he d have guessed the thing was genuine the drizzle increased to a steady downpour and the young polizist studying the corpse blurted out something spontaneously as if he had been poured in tar he lies on a pillow of turf and seems to weep the black river of himself what the hell does that mean nothing just an english poem i read once come to think of it it was irish pfeffer took another look at the bog man s leathery face his skull had long since decalcified leaving the outer skin pinched and distorted his features were already caving in from rough handling and sudden exposure to ruthless compounds in the air it was a smile pfeffer was sure of it the man had known something profoundly amusing the moment he died so amusing he was still grinning even after being stabbed in the chest even after centuries of submersion under the quaking peat answer the following question for a chance to win a piece of the berlin wall yes you heard that right how would steve describe the family jewels your roast master chris eldin 81 comments labels adamant stone stephen parrish tuesday may 26 2009 tuesday s special is mercury falls mercury falls by robert kroese rob aka diesel is one of the newer members of the book roast team but his style and brand of humor have made him fit right in we ve appreciated his help and support and think he has a darn good book plus he uses his wicked computer skills to keep google inc up and running without further ado let s sit back and peek inside the briefcase it s the end of the world again and this time christine temetri is paying attention signs of the apocalypse yawn the end of days please in case of rapture please leave a message years of covering the antics of end times cults for the banner a religious news magazine have left christine not only jaded but seriously questioning her career choice that is until she meets mercury an anti establishment angel who s frittering his time away whipping up batches of rice krispy treats and perfecting his ping pong backhand instead of doing his job helping to orchestrate armageddon with the end near and angels and demons debating the finer political points of the apocalypse christine and mercury accidentally foil an attempt to assassinate one karl grissom a thirty seven year old film school dropout about to make his big break as the antichrist meanwhile fundamentalist firebrand harold giddings has heard the call denounce karl to the world and unleash the apocalypse but was it god or the devil who dialed his number christine s betting her soul that harold got his wires crossed now to save the world she s got to outsmart harold negotiate the byzantine bureaucracies of heaven and hell and convince the apathetic mercury to take a stand all the while putting up with the obnoxious mouth breathing antichrist visit rob here read more about rob s book here excerpt from mercury falls the antichrist was clearly out of his element all that was really expected of him was to cut the ceremonial ribbon in front of the newest charlie s grill but he was having difficulty with the giant ceremonial scissors finally he bit into an edge with his teeth and tore the ribbon the rest of the way red faced and drenched with sweat in the 100 degree heat he muttered an obscenity and stomped off the crowd cheered this display of mildly satanic behavior the antichrist karl grissom shouted a diminutive man who had presumably been standing next to karl the entire time the crowd clapped politely for the antichrist and the man they assumed was the antichrist s dwarf henchman but was in fact the director of marketing for charlie s grill inc the dwarf henchman marketing director proceeded to hand out free cheeseburgers while the antichrist made his way to the parking lot a local high school marching band began to play a jazzed up version of the charlie nix movie theme behind a line of police tape in the parking lot of the burger giant next door a group of several dozen protesters held signs with slogans like pray for karl grissom and karl grissom go to hell despite their lack of both logical consistency and complimentary cheeseburgers they were a spirited group having fulfilled his contractual obligations as antichrist karl plodded through the crowd toward his mother s saturn this whole business was getting a little old he had half a mind just to call it quits and at this point he didn t even know about the man with a high powered rifle who was lying in wait on the roof of the burger giant the man s name was danny pilvers danny was wearing army camouflage and had his cross hairs trained on karl grissom the antichrist as danny was on the opposite side of the roof from the crowd and was making a point of being very still no one seemed to have noticed him danny s hands shook not because he was afraid but because he was angry he was angry with karl the antichrist he was angry with katie midford and her dwarf henchmen he was angry with charlie nix despite the fact that charlie nix was only a twelve year old boy and a fictional one at that danny was angry at all of these people because he believed that they made a tapestry of religion hadn t the angels told him so the angels had not in fact told him so what they had said was travesty in fact they had repeated it several times a travesty they said a travesty of religion finally they had given up satisfied that danny understood the gist of what they were saying danny took a deep breath trying to steady his hands a tapestry of religion he muttered and flicked off the gun s safety please answer the following question to win a 15 gift certificate to amazon what is the best religion ahahhahaahha okay that s not the real question the real question is what kind of car should satan be driving your roast master chris eldin 35 comments labels diesel mercury falls monday may 25 2009 monday s special is children of the mist children of the mist by hywela lyn two minds united against a common foe two hearts afraid to show their love long ago tamarith fell in love with a man she can never have and is convinced she will never love another however she cannot help but be intrigued by a handsome stranger whose psychic powers exceed even her own vidarh seeks only to find his true purpose in life and to win the regard of his father who eschews his son s psychic abilities thrown together by a common threat to their planet then torn apart by an evil greater than any they could have imagined can vidarh save the lovely nifl woman who has captivated him before it is too late will tamarith and vidarh overcome the deadly enemy who threatens to destroy all they know and love will they find the happiness they both seek or are they fated to live their lives alone hywela lyn usually known by her second name lyn which is easier to pronounce is intensely proud of being welsh although...