Bunny Elder Adventure Series by J. B. Hawker

Author:J. B. Hawker [Hawker, J. B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian Books & Bibles, Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Suspense, Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Mystery, Anthologies, Collections & Anthologies, Religion & Spirituality, Christian Fiction
Amazon: B00OQT9WV4
Published: 2014-10-20T05:00:00+00:00

Huddled in a locked, windowless room in the dank basement of a dockside building in the Port of Songkhla, Khu Khu Paw was trying to come to terms with this latest insult to her humanity.

In all her seventeen years, Khu Khu had learned to expect little but hardship and deprivation. Each time she dared to hope for improvement she had been met with a new horror. Now, sitting naked in the darkness with her painfully thin arms wrapped around her boney knees for warmth, she felt that she could sink no lower. This must be hell, at last.

Khu Khu’s tongue was swollen from thirst and she longed for a drink as she drifted in and out of awareness. Scraps of memory wafted into her thoughts and she tried to grasp and hold on to them.

She saw a vision of her mother and brother in the Tham Hin refugee camp in Thailand. Khu Khu had been so small when the Burmese soldiers killed her father and drove the family from their home, along with their Karen neighbors.

It had been crowded and damp in the refugee camp. They lived in a lean-to made from bamboo and leaf thatch matting. It was uncomfortable, with no clean water and much sickness, but the family had clung to each other and their faith.

Her family and tribe had been Christians since the 1600’s when the Baptist missionary, Adoniram Judson, came to Burma from America. Being Karen and Christian was a double offense to the ethnic Burmese, but it was a great comfort to Khu Khu’s family.

Although Khu Khu had many occasions to wonder if God had forgotten her or was angry with her, she had never doubted his existence. She remained faithful to the teachings of her beloved father.

She knew her father would never have allowed the bad man to steal her away from the refugee camp. Perhaps God would allow her father’s spirit to come and protect her, even now.

When she was left alone after first her mother, and then her brother, succumbed to the diseases ravaging the camp, she had hidden inside their hut as long as possible, but, eventually, hunger drew her out.

She had been standing in line for hours for a ration of rice gruel, but was constantly being pushed aside by larger children and adults, when the dark man offered to take her to the front of the line. She eagerly took his hand and he led her quickly away from the camp, instead.

Her next clear memory was of the horrible place in Bangkok where she had finally been fed. She couldn’t think about that time, and allowed oblivion to blot out the frightful memories.

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