The Days of Darkness

The Days of Darkness by Bari Marcus Anthony

A Fictional Short Story

(Fictitious disclaimer :all persons portrayed in it are fictitious Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.) All rights reserved. No part of this manuscript may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical,photocopy, recording or otherwise without the written prior permission by J. Robb Montana.

The Days of Darkness by Bari Marcus Anthony 

The days of darkness are imprinted in my past, just like it was yesterday.

To this very day I remember the sour smell of whiskey bottles lying on the floor beside the couch where my mom was sleeping. Her limp body lay motionless with her right hand grasping the twenty-sixer as if it were her life line.

I was doing what most five year old would do, playing with my new GI Joe on this cold winter day.
 It was late afternoon when my stomach began to growl, quickly realizing noon hour past.
 In our house we never ate breakfast, so lunch was a big part of my routine. My thin little body was so starved with malnutrition it wasn't uncommon to faint.

 I stepped quietly into the living room of our small home, looking for my mom. I knee quietly beside her, reached over and nudged her arm to wake-up. She moaned but didn't move, so I used all my might to shake her. The reaction was over whelming to say the least.  My mom swung her arm into my chest, knocking me flat on the floor. It didn't hurt thinking it was some sort of game. I quickly got up and jumped on top of her, yelling," Mommy! Mommy! Mommy! Get Up!"

Had I realized this wasn't a game my instincts would have kick-in, but not this time.

It happened all in slow motion, wakening  mother bear. She grabbed  me by my arms, feeling intent pain, swinging me over her shoulders and racing me back to my room.

My weak little body was plunged into the darkness of a closet filled with dirty laundry and empty whiskey bottles. I just remember the pain in my back as I hit what must of been the whiskey bottles. The bedroom door slams shut and then complete silence once again.

The pungent smell was so overwhelming it made me gasp for fresh air. It wasn't long before pressing my face up against the cracks of the folding doors.

 A river of tears streaked my face with stains," MOM! OH MOM! Please Mom..." is vivid in my mind this very day.

 It wasn't long before I fell asleep, hours past before waking up to find my mom tucking me in my bed.

She washed my face with a wet washcloth, removing dry-stain tears from swollen cheeks. My mom very carefully slide her fingers across my long bangs, she kissed my forehead," I'm so sorry...can you forgive me Dex?" I nodded in satisfaction, knowing my mom's nicer personality had come to visit her son.

What seemed like a lifetime of abuse has been itched in my mind for eternity on those days of darkness.

(Fictitious disclaimer :all persons portrayed in it are fictitious Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.)

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SciFI Resource Material -Black Angels

Black Angels

Black Angels - The Movie

is a science-fiction screenplay. 

An imaginative thrilling adventure about alien civilization before earth's last ice age over 250,000 years ago.

Writer Bari Marcus Anthony  creates an exciting screenplay using archaeological and religious evidence found today by scientists.

Under the Gulf of Khambhat

In 2001 India's Oceanantic Institute discovered monuments seven miles from shore deep under the Gulf of Khambhat. Ancient civilization artifacts have been found to date as far back as 32,000 years. According to India's Oceanantic Institute, this civilization was covered over by ice age melting over 9000 years ago. 

Legendary Lord Krishna

Hindu scholars believe this civilization is the legendary city of Dvaraka, home to Lord Krishna, an ancient powerful god in Hindu culture today. Hindus ancient scripts record a massive attack on Lord Krishna ancient city of Dvaraka by his elder brother, Devaki. It is believed Devaki attacked Krishna from the sky raining down energy weapons resembling lightning bolts. Krisha retalulated by releasing powerful arrows that roared like thunder. A massive war of particle rays from the sun finally destroyed Devaki flying machine saving Krisha's people. Krisha goes on to hide his city from further destruction, parting the sea, swallowing up the ancient city of Dvaraka.

City of Tiahuanaco

Ancient aliens civilizations have been discovered throughout planet earth,including stunning facts in Peru. High above in the Andes mountains,an elevation of 12,500 ft above sea level, lies an ancient city known as Tiahuanaco, located in a mountainous region east of the southern part of Lake Titicaca. Under the Lake of Titicaca scientists found monuments and facial sculptures resembling extraterrestrial beings and an ancient golden city called Paititi founded by the Inca dynasty, Manco Capac and Mama Ocllo, who were sent down to the Earth by the blazing of the sun.

In Inka mythology, Manco Capac and Mama 0cllo, children of the Sun, emerged from the depths of Lake Titicaca to found their empire within Tiahuanaco.

Big Rock

Just outside of Calgary, Alberta,Canada is a small town named Okotoks. 10 km southwest of Okotoks,for centuries, lies an ancient rectangular rock called Big Rock weighting in at 16,500 tons, measuring 134 ft. long with a depth of 29 ft and a width of over 59 ft. It is a massive monument that appears to have been dropped from the sky, due to a corner piece over half a mile from the Big Rock. 

The Adventure

All of these artifact accounts of ancient astronauts caught James Montana Scripts.

Writer Bari Demers has pieced together an adventurous science-fiction screenplay, BLACK ANGELS. 

An adventurous account of ancient astronauts arriving over 100,000 years ago on Earth, landscaping architectural wonders across the globe. SIRIANS were the first to cross genetics with APE-MAN, apparently improving mankind.  What they didn't realize, was the consequences of speeding up evolution.  Mankind wasn't ready and it made us into who we are today, a blood-thirsty intelligent race of human beings. Throughout our hostel history, mankind has conquered and destroyed anything in its path.  We may have the intelligence, but we always resort back to violence. 

BLACK ANGELS will take you on a journey of our ancient ancestors, explaining the scientific theories and what happened to them. 

By Bari Demers

Asteroid 99942 Apophis

Asteroid 99942  by Bari Demers

James Montana

The asteroid, 99942 Apophis is headed our way to Earth in April 13th 2029, but it will pass by earth approximately 35,000km from earth. Sounds safe enough doesn't it? 
 Well it is, but the only drawback is this - the Apophis asteroid follows into our keyhole of earth's gravity which will pull it back to earth 7 years later. It could hit earth, headed directly towards California and Hawaii. 
But relax, we have until 2036 to think about what to do about it. NASA along with private enterprises are already contemplating how to land on asteroids for the purpose of mining minerals. 

By
Bari Demers

The Great Wizard of Titan

Black Angels
[In memory of Jenni Michelle 1980]

I can't remember my last visit to Titan, the largest moon orbiting Saturn, but it's like yesterday.  Still can hear the jolly voice, crystal clear within the deep icy caves. To this very day, 170 years later, it still brings chills down my spine.

Black Angels by Bari Marcus Anthony 

I was a young Field Science Officer on my second tour to Saturn's famous moon.  Just another typical day, exploring the phenomena of air pockets along the surface with sandy dunes dotted with rivers and lakes of liquid methane. 

Scientist before me made suggestions of a possible underground cavern filled with salt water. It was my job to explore this theory in detail. There were even rumors told of the possibility of oxygen trapped below.  Encased in my life preserving gear I cautiously entered deep within the cave.

I edged deeper until I found what looked like a transparent bubble. I reached my hand pressing against the membrane, poking through effortlessly. The rest of my body carefully stepped into what was an exhaust of rushing air accelerating my entire body, making me feel like a super hero. Cautiously removing my breathing apparatus, I remember the sweet taste of basil as the trapped air filled my lungs, giving me an instantaneous surge of power.

 I believe that it was then a spirit of the great gods grabbed my uniform and dragged me through a secret entrance, setting me down in front of a vast underground turquoise ocean filled with sea monsters that would make sharks look like puppies.

 Dusting myself off from the rude awakening, I realized the pearl sand resembled icing sugar. Suddenly I heard a thundering echo of laughter from a wizard disguised as an old man with a twinkle in his eye and a smile on his lips. 

He turned to me and said the words that would change my destiny, "What can I do for you young man?"

 I replied hesitantly, "Who...who are you?"

 He looked at me in the eye with a gaze that was as steady as an old oak tree, then he looked sideways over his right shoulder. That's when I noticed two bundles of fury creatures resembling what I believed to be extinct baby white tigers. At least that's what I heard from my studies of early earth history.  Passive little animals busy licking their paws, paying little attention to me.

Wizard drawn by Bill Richards

The wizard turned his full attention on me, voice echoing, " What brings you to my home?" 

Jumping back surprised and said,"I've come from Earth to discover the ocean before me."

The wizard leaned closer,looking  straight into my eyes with not even a frown, " We don't have any oceans here, my son."

I could see the cavern filled with the most beautiful turquoise ocean as far as you could see. 

 I replied," What ever do you mean? There's a huge ocean in front of us...can't you see it?"

Oh, you mean that", he said sweeping his hand across before him," Is that what you call it...an ocean?  My son, this is called the Sea of Life."

He paused for a minute, chuckling to himself," Rather, you may even say it's called the Sea of Regeneration."

He sat down on the only bleached white rock for miles around," It's obvious you never seen the 'Sea of Life'  before, so I will give you your first dip free."

The wizard reaches for something in his pocket, being careful not to reveal it to me. My eyes strained to see what was in the palm of his hand, but he clutched it so tight. He continues," This is a very good business move on my part.  You see, after you have your first sweet taste of our sea, you will certainly come back for more. As a matter of fact I can bet you will bring me all the precious gold you can get your hands on." 

Having said that, with one smooth motion he plunged me deep within the sea of Life, saying," Your life has changed forever!"

Gasping for air I came up rushing out of the salt water as if I was another man, a much younger man full of energy. A new release in life which I never felt before. Stunned and invigorated by the glowing blue light, now apart of me, I asked," What is it? What makes me feel so alive. So new? " 

The wizard and his two little fury tigers watched me with great intensity as I contemplated the orb of beauty within me. Out of complete surprise, one of the tigers spoke as you or I,saying," Now you are part of the club. You will certainly live forever."


"Forever? How is that possible?", It occurred to me my brain knew the answer even before I asked. It was if I could calculate any riddle or mathematical equation within seconds in my head.  At first it was overwhelming, but then the glow within me seemed more natural, as if I had this my whole life.

 "You see my friend," the Wizard chuckled, " Your brain has always been engineered this way. You just never knew how to access it. " Once again he paused and then finally said," Now my friend, it's important you drink a glass of my miracle water once every two days or the effect will wear off."

He handed me a blue crystal the size of a marble, " Take this with you at all times. It will remind you when your system is getting low and it's time to regenerate."

It became all so clear to me now, the cloudiness was all but gone. Regeneration of our DNA is so simple, a child could figure it out. After all of this time who knew the power of knowledge was just under the surface, just waiting to get out. All the questions were answered with ease.

I nodded with full understanding, eagerly thanking the jolly old wizard, " What a wonderful gift you have bestowed on me."

At first, the lifetime commitment sounded a little scary but at the same time exhilarating. Quickly I realized my body became this finely toned super machine with powers that I never thought existed. Not only was I much younger and stronger, I could actually fly!

With this realization I said," How much gold will buy me a couple of liters of this precious water?"

It was right there and then I knew I could never be without it again. The new potion or should I say drug that hooked me for life. True. I'm 170 years old, but at what cost? Today if I had the choice I would clearly say NO. 

Writer Bari Marcus Anthony ( copyrights 2023)  

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Our Suns Weather is a Real Event

How Our Sun's Weather Effects our Earth

by Bari Marcus Anthony
Our Sun's Weather is a REAL Event which can cause havoc on Earth's weather. To understand its effects,we need a better understanding our Earth's core.
Earth's Core

The core is composed of molten iron - which help create our electric magnetic fields around our Earth. The electric magnetic fields protect us from the Sun ejecting a constant force of shock-waves of hot gas called Corona Mass Ejection (CME), which crash into our small planet at the speed of light.

Our Sun
Deep within the core of our sun, it's constantly squeezing hydrogen atoms to fuse into heavy atoms called helium. The effect rises to the surface of our sun, called convection.
Granules from 1000 km across to Super Imposed granules of over 35,000 km are sited by one of NASA's spacecraft called SOHO.
Making it more interesting, our sun has Ultra Violet Super Halo's of Gas called the Corona. And on top of that,on the surface of our sun you can also see White Regions where gas escapes.
Spectacular Ionized Loops of Gas ten times the size of earth with an average of 60,000 degrees celcius are dancing across the surface of our sun in a grand show, forming Sunspots. The Sunspots release the intense force of the Corona Mass Ejection of hot gases, pointed in Earth's direction.To put our Earth into perspective to our Sun, it would take one million earths or one thousand Jupiter's to fill our sun. And the best part; our sun is one of the smallest stars in our universe.
Aurora Borealis & Aurora Australis
One of the great effects of the Sun's gases crashing onto Earth's magnetic field is known as the aurora borealis (or the northern lights), named after the Roman goddess of dawn. It dances across our Northern Poles showcasing spectacular colours of greenish blues to radiant reds.
Dancing of the Spirits were well known to the First Nations People and considered sacred.
In our Southern Poles the same effects are identical to our Northern sister, known as the Aurora Australis.
The Solar Storm Effect

Our Sun's solar storm can caused havoc on our electrical systems. The worst effect were record on 1859 and as recent as 1989. It is possible for another outcome on May 2013 when the Suns Magnetic Poles completes a reverse in its poles. The Sun's weather will drastically effect our satellites, orbiting spacecrafts and possibly astronauts.
NASA's Superhero's
NASA has some remarkable spacecrafts collecting data. SOHO, Little SDO and the twins sisters called STEREO.
STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory) give a remarkable 360 view of our sun with its effects recorded by Little SDO which travels the same speed as Earth, over 69,000 miles per hour in order to feed data to its home station in New Mexico,United States. This special orbit is called geosynchronous orbit or GEO staying in constant orbital contact with ground control.
Forecasting Our Future
With better warning NASA can forecast our Sun's weather and at the same time capturing nature at its rawest.
With the Sun coming to a peak on May of 2013,it is a real concern to us. We may have an even stronger disaster then the one of 1859.

What Will Happen to Us on Earth?
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 satellites have reveal that our sun, as well as our entire solar system is moving into an interstellar energy cloud and can effect power on Earth up to 3 years - causing power failure throughout the world. This Solar Event will take place 2012 - 2013 with the Sun peaking in May 2013.

What Can You Do?
NASA say's it a good time to stock up on food & water, plus check into power sources to keep your way of living bearable. With such a shut down of the power grid system world wide it will effect our way of living throughout our planet.


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Black Angels - The Movie

Northwest Art & Design by Bari Demers

First Nations People have capitalized on Art and Design intertwined with folklore and beliefs. Each artistic design represents a story passed down from generation to generation.

Northwest Native Art on the coast of British Columbia have had many names in the past, such as:

• Aboriginals


• Natives


• Indians


• Indigenous Peoples


• Indian Bands

But now the term is First Nations, which I find fitting and gives a stronger respect of the First Nations throughout North America. What makes it fitting, is that they are the very first Nation of People to occupy the beautiful lands filled with surrounding cedar trees over 400 years old and wild oceans teaming with marine life. The first immigrant to land on this coastline of British Columbia was Captain Vancouver, who had first thought he had discovered the middle east. But, to his amazement he was greeted by the Haida People.
The First Nations People are occupied by a long selection of historical people from the Hadia to the Skawahlook Nations. There are approximately 300 proud Nation groups with creative symbolic art expressing the heart of their culture.

The original Haida Nation who greeted Captain Vancouver were close to elimination due to European settlers who brought their chicken pox and other diseases along with them. But a few of the Haida Tribe did survive, leaving beautiful artifacts, culture and spiritual meaning.

Take a leisure hike with breathtaking landscapes, sandy beaches, temperate rain forest, caves, waterfalls and cliff side mountains, you can hear the whispering sound of the Haida Spirits drifting through the thick cedar forest.

The First Nations in North America were extremely resourceful, using what they had around them without any waste. Deer hides were crafted into beautiful clothing covered in ordainment beads.

Imagine being part of the Haida Tribe going after a Killer whale in a small cedar canoe hollowed out for approximately eight men. Sometimes they didn’t survive.
Their homes were made of cedar slabs and they had appointed artists handed down from generation to generation.

bloodwolf

Each tribe have a great respect for their animal life, well knowingly, the spiritual fathers were reincarnated into the living animal species, such as an bald head eagle or the white Spirit bear (Ursus americanus kermodei) or moskgm'ol (white bear), as called by the Tsimshian Coastal First Nations.

Each animal species have a powerful spirit within all First Nations legends.
The most interesting one is the Thunder bird with a legendary story a long time ago, where a giant killer whale ate all the salmon in the ocean. The First Nation People on shore were starving, begging the killer whale to leave food for their people.
After many days of praying to the spirits, a great wind crashed across the sea with roars of thunder and bolts of lightning. The Chief of the tribe felt the presence of a great spirit and ask for help.
But the spirit asked,"What will you do for me?"
And with that the Chief promises respect and admiration. Suddenly appeared the great spirit of them all - The mighty Thunder bird with flashing lightening from its pointed talons and rolling thunder as it swept its mighty wings.
The mighty Thunder bird grab the Killer Whale by its talons, carrying it off towards the rolling hills, where it dropped the enormous beast, immediately turning into a great mountain that you can see today.
To this day the artistic cultural carvers keep their word of respect to the mighty Thunder bird by
showing off the great spiritual Thunder bird by means of their expressive art.

In today's world we can learn from the First Nations heritages by respecting the rightful use of our species of animals and to use the resources in respect of mother earth.
Respecting our fishing and hunting privileges is only becoming a part of the ecological cycle. Our great fortune of being able to have food on the table should be to better our resources and to improve the embitterment of mankind. Enjoy the cultural history and keep it for our children's children and our grandchildren.
Knowledge and understanding of our resources will mean a brighter stronger future to co-exist with our animals species instead of our destroying nature.
Northwest Art is bringing  a new life and spirit, providing historical riches to our heritages of mankind. Art and Design is expressed as an individual brand of that person - therefore Northwest Art is now expressed by all artists. It doesn't mean they have to be First Nations People to showcase aboriginal art.
It's a new world with new ideas - join me.

By Bari Demers


James Montana

Space Fever - short story by J. Robb Montana

Black Angels by Bari Demers

By Bari Demers

[copyright Dec.7,2009]

The young boy gazed at the snowflakes drifting to the ground like a musical waltz.

He perch’s his little framed body onto the wooden white bench, so well crafted like the rest of the Elizabethan home.

 A blizzard had come within the night, creeping amongst the lonely barren moon in silence, and then without warning a whirling storm covers the quiet community of Tetarrais on the rocky base of  Titan.

Titan has been described as a planet very much like Earth's North Pole, if it weren’t for the icy crystal drops of methane scattering the terrain. Titan isn't your average moon, constantly being pulled by the forces of Saturn. A decade before a privately owned company named E-Zone sent probes onto the surface of this precarious moon, looking for rich gases to mine. To their surprise, on the outer region of Titan they discovered a pocket of oxygen trapped in a swirl amongst the outer atmosphere of nitrogen and heavy clouds of methane and ethane. Within a couple of years, a mission was financed to further explore this area in detailed.


E-Zone was well established on the earth's moon during the moon race for profit in 2060 where they had capitalized on the discovery of Black Diamonds deep within the lunar surface. These Black Diamonds weren't your typical diamond; when compressed, it  released an enormous amount of energy. E-Zone established profitable payloads of black diamonds and began shipping it's valuable resource to an already depleted earth with the help of high tech androids.

Black Angels - The Movie - By Bari Demers

It wasn't long before a colony of androids were shipped to Titan to begin excavating it surfaces for rich resources. After billions of dollars E-Zone diligence paid off with the discovery of a new type of Tritanium based alloy that proved to be a very valuable resource for space travel.

Five years later a small colony of scientists established a foothold within Titan's pocket of oxygen named, " The Breathe of Life" precariously swirling amongst the prominent deadly methane atmosphere.

To make their colony represent a feeling of home, specially designed homes were fashioned with Elizabethan Architecture. The colony of only twenty eight used their companies owned androids to perform house duties, not realizing the outcome.

With no children within the small colony, they began adopting the androids as their children. After all their light mechanical features were a haunting resemblance of a little boy. Each designed with Tritanium based alloy limbs with blue electronic eyes and a cosmetic touch of golden locks of gold refined hair. They were given names of their real children and started to love them as if they were their children. It was the only way to fulfilled their void of loneliness.

 The company’s policy had stringent restrictions voiding children on space mission, due to legal and safety issues.

But it wasn’t until the margin of performance of each colony did they realize how important the presence of children became evident.E-Zone was very aware to the physiological effects of human colonies, ever since the lunar disaster where two thousand colonist lost their lives due to "Space Fever". Only after a routine medical scan of the colony did they notice the twenty eight colonists had symptoms of Space Fever. Quick action was taken to prevent the dismal outcome of the lunar disaster; they had to solve this problem before another mutiny happened on Titan.

The psychological reports came back with a surprising outcome. It was obvious what had to be done.

The little android boy quickly picked out a stream of light amongst the winter storm, still perched on the bench under the safety of the enclosed warm shelter. “Oh look,” he points in excitement, “My new brother and sister has arrived Mom!"

By Bari Demers