The Universe Builders: Bernie and the Putty (49 page)

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I must also mention the excellent graphic design work from my daughter, Wendy LeBel Golombeski, Howard Ruback, and Michelle Carter-Hildebrandt. Graphics are not my strong suit; I’m glad it’s yours.

The contributions by all of you have been both humbling and much appreciated.

 

Table of Contents

Prologue

The Time of Waiting

Personnel Department

Caleb’s Story

The Waiting Continues

Bad Ethics

Beatrice’s Version

Stock Boy

The Interview

Suzie Protests

Tomorrow, It Begins…

Weekend at Billy’s

Suzie’s View

Orientation

Meeting the Boss

Billy Bully

Bernie’s Journal

The Manuals

Staring into the Abyss

Lunch with Lenny

Inspiration

Creation Mechanics 101

The Problems Begin

Back to the Drawing Boards

Lunch with Suzie

Museum for Ideas

An Idea is Born

Lunch with Friends

The Past Barrier

Is It Me, or…

Get Started Anyway

It Begins…

Payday!

Bernie Goes Shopping

Make It Green…

Suzie & Sissy

Oh, No!

More Sabotage!

The Backdoor

Lenny’s Charms

Shemal Startles Bernie

The Putty

Billy’s Gang

Divine Intervention

The Sun

Not My Fault

The First Expedition

The Central Plaza

Lenny’s Place

The Second Expedition

What’s Changed?

The Headache

Billy’s Healer

Astrology Says…

More Planets

A Gift from the Sun

Shemal Stops By

Billy Returns

Zardok Explains

Gaia? Already?

A Divine Event!

Billy Is Sick Again

Ring of Emptiness

Tragedy at Sea

A Favorite Bookstore

A Garden Universe?

Candi Comes Calling

Burn, Baby, Burn!

Candi and Lenny

A World Ablaze

Billy Scares Candi

Bloody Moon

Wake Up!

He’s a Wimp

We Must Explain

Getting Discouraged

A Little Breeze

Oh, Do Tell…

Wicked Winds

An Understanding

Sauna, Anyone?

Suzie Intervenes

Gee, It’s Hot

The Deal

The Hot Senate

Shemal Talks

That Billy!

Let’s Try Faster

Little Friends

Something Is Very Wrong

Someday, He Will Pay

Blame the Night Sun

Lookies!

Alcandor Offers a Theory

One Bright Spot

Senate’s Progress Report

How Can This Be?

First Contact Protocol

A Cultural Assessment

Meet Your God

A World to Save a World

You Want Us To Go Where?

Meeting with Zardok

A Dead End

Lenny Gets Upset

What’s He Like?

Alcandor Tells Gondal

Still Best Buds

We Must Agree

Alcandor Learns More

I Blew It

Astronomy 101

Zoology 101

Quakes and More

Command Performance

The Rest of the Story

A Time of Peace

Alcandor Makes a Request

Not Cool

The Kids Prepare

The Extraction

What Are Those?

This Is Lenny

Time to End It

The Museum

Billy Destroys the World

Damn You!

The Booby Trap

Go Home, Bernie

Billy’s Threat

The Last Goodbye

Billy’s Lesson

Committee Arrives

Terrible Swift Sword

Good News!

Awards Ceremony

Epilogue

Did you like the book?

About the Author

Acknowledgements

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