Before The Rapture...

by Matthew Wilke, a.k.a Wilkem I am only using thes characters. I do not own them.

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Cameron, Buck, Williams was sitting at a desk in the New York Office of Global Weekly. Stanton Bailey, his boss had wanted to see him today for some reason or another. Maybe his boss had another assignment for him out in Washington D.C. With all the recent activity boiling over in the senate, It was possible now that his boss wanted him to go their and interview some of the main senators working on this. Or maybe he was about to be assigned to War-Torn Turkey or Syria. With the war taking place their, It was likely he would be sent their.
However, it was time for the special Newsmaker of the Year Issue. He and all others in the office had voted on who would get the award and it was a unanamous decision that Chaim Rozenswaig, an israeli botanist, should get the honor. He had invented a formula that had made all of the Israeli deserts blossom into being one of the most fruitful countries in the world.
No one knew who Stanton Bailey would pick to fly to Israel and interview Chaim, but some wer fairly certain that Buck had the liking of Bailey and was favored to get the assignment.
Buck was now called into StantonÕs office. Stanton came right to the point of why he wanted to see him.
ÒBuck, Let me get right down to bussiness. I have looked at how everyone has handled this event on who would get the assignment for newsmaker of the year. I have decided that you will get the job. Get Packed. You Leave tommorow morning.Ó
ÒYes, Sir,Ó Buck answered, ÒIÕll get right on it.Ó
Buck left the New York office and was heading home to his apartment to get packed. He only had about 12 hours to get packed up and ready to go.
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Rayford Steele was sitting next to his wife and son in New Hope Village Church. He started to think about all the stuff he had to do that afternoon, including, fly one of the planes to France, then to Florida, until then heading back to Chicago. He didnÕt listen to the preacher, Vernon Billings and his assistant, Bruce Barnes preach back and forth about the Rapture.
Big Deal, Rayford thought to himself. That probably wonÕt happen for anothe 100 years.

What Rayford didnÕt realize was that the Rapture was a lot closer than he thought.