All Things Bright and Strange by James Markert

Author:James Markert
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2017-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Fox Bannerman looked forward to future days.

His flock of Pentecostals, for now, was content with having their revival meetings in Bannerman’s house, but he already had the plans for a brick-and-mortar place of worship etched in his mind. The Lord had sent the plans to him one night in a dream, just as he’d sent the power to heal and speak in tongues. He’d build it on that sliver of land between that building where the Moslems met and Rabbi Blumenthal’s synagogue. Heathens all of them.

This new place of worship would protect his flock when the end of days came. Or when Jesus came back to town in the promised Second Coming. Either way, his flock would be ready.

Never had he felt so united with the Holy Spirit than he did now in Bellhaven, and especially after visiting that chapel in the woods.

Brother Bannerman stretched out on his bed. Moonlight shone through his bedroom window, highlighting his long, lithe body. His two copperheads slithered around his legs—one at the ankles and the other around his left thigh—burrowing in and out of the twisted sheets. He imagined having a harem of fawning women with him, that Anna Belle Roper one of them. He’d love to put his healing hands on her head. That Linda May Dennison too. She was too pretty to be with a man who could no longer see her beauty.

His stomach growled, and his thoughts went elsewhere.

He still had leftover pork in the icebox.

He swung his feet from the bed and left his room, closing the door on his snakes as they tried to follow. If there was one thing he liked more than the formation of the Bellhaven Church of God, it was pork. He sat at his kitchen table and ate what was left of the last roasting, knowing he still had three full pigs smoked and salt-cured in the basement. He’d promised his flock a pig roast, and he was determined to give them a feast of all feasts. He hoped the smell would lure the lost town folk so he could evangelize them. Help them get born again and heal their pain. Watching the new ones speak in tongues excited him almost as much as a good pork feast. He’d even take his chances with those Latter-day Saints or that new group of Bible kids going door to door and witnessing to people. He was so good at what he did, he knew he could make them see the light. The one true light.

His mouth watered at the thought of the skin charring on the spit, the grease-and-bubble dripping to the grass below. He’d already decided he’d have the pig roast on his new lot. It was only grass now, with a sign that read The Future Home of Bellhaven Church of God. But soon its steeple would soar taller than the synagogue and mosque on either side of it.

He’d met both of those men, the rabbi and that black Moslem leader without a face.

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