A Powers That Be short story
EPUB 3 digital download
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“The doors separate onto an expansive wood-paneled reception area crammed with art, sculptures, rare tropical plants, priceless artifacts, and an elaborate gilded cage containing a blue and gold macaw. The nasty little raptor springs off its perch, clutching a vertical bar with its prehistoric feet, repeating, “Big shot. Big shot.”
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A reclusive botany professor accepts an unsolicited offer to join an enigmatic and exclusive club. The price? Leaving behind everything he holds dear—except Ruthie.
Professor Bartholomew Cobb, a New York City college botany teacher, receives a mysterious invitation to join an exclusive club with a name epitomizing wealth and privilege—two attributes he lacks in spades. Weighing his humdrum life, the circumspect scientist throws caution to the wind and accepts the unsolicited offer. However, upon entering the Manhattan highrise clubhouse teeming with power brokers and glitterati, he meets the founding member and CEO of The Powers That Be, Artemus Pennywell. The aristocratic older man invites Cobb to peer through a telescope pointing heavenward, revealing the impetus behind his fish-out-of-water presence, and further, acceptance of the offer means abandonment of all the professor holds dear, except for Ruthie.
A Powers That Be short story
EPUB 3 digital download
***
“The doors separate onto an expansive wood-paneled reception area crammed with art, sculptures, rare tropical plants, priceless artifacts, and an elaborate gilded cage containing a blue and gold macaw. The nasty little raptor springs off its perch, clutching a vertical bar with its prehistoric feet, repeating, “Big shot. Big shot.”
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A reclusive botany professor accepts an unsolicited offer to join an enigmatic and exclusive club. The price? Leaving behind everything he holds dear—except Ruthie.
Professor Bartholomew Cobb, a New York City college botany teacher, receives a mysterious invitation to join an exclusive club with a name epitomizing wealth and privilege—two attributes he lacks in spades. Weighing his humdrum life, the circumspect scientist throws caution to the wind and accepts the unsolicited offer. However, upon entering the Manhattan highrise clubhouse teeming with power brokers and glitterati, he meets the founding member and CEO of The Powers That Be, Artemus Pennywell. The aristocratic older man invites Cobb to peer through a telescope pointing heavenward, revealing the impetus behind his fish-out-of-water presence, and further, acceptance of the offer means abandonment of all the professor holds dear, except for Ruthie.
