the phoenix chronicles

Phoenix’s smooth lines and sleek form denoted speed,
beauty, and untold power.

What if you were the only one to hear the distress calls of a Boeing 747 en route to L. A. from Honolulu? What if you had the means to keep the airliner in the air and deliver it safely to a land based airport? Knowing if you did, your experimental craft would now be known to the world, and the military would want your secrets.
Would you do it? If unscrupulous people obtained your technology, society could radically change in the worst direction. Would you do it then? Or would you let over five-hundred innocent people die as the aircraft ditched into the ocean?

These are just a few of the questions Calvin Connors had to answer and with very little time to decide. The aircraft engines failing were the results of sabotage.
Calvin could see the sickening look of despair on everyone’s face as he drew near in his beloved craft the Phoenix.

Calvin had secrets, and in the wrong hands his technology would end civilization as we now know it.

    In “The Phoenix Chronicles,” these are just a few of the ‘minor’ problems Calvin has to deal with. Phoenix’s smooth lines and sleek form denoted speed, beauty and untold power. She could lift loads never considered before.
    Propelling the airliner was a small feat for her. The biggest challenge was to avoid tearing it apart in the process. Even worse was keeping Phoenix out of the wrong hands.
    He’d have to hide her back in the ‘Toy Box’ at ‘Heavens Gate’ before anyone could catch him.

(Note: February 17, 2008)
This manuscript is now available in
hard copy paperback in its entirety.
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This book is 656 pages in length, on 6X9 inch paper
(that's over 1/2 a ream of paper)
and weighs 2.4 pounds.

Due to the physical size, Phoenix Chronicles will be split
into a 5 volume series in the near future.
This will be done to allow for the rest of the story to be printed.

The original one volume book will still be available.
The continuation (volume 6) will be available as it is completed.

The Phoenix Chronicles, (656 pages long,) is a science fiction revolving around Calvin Thomas Connors and his family. This novel is laid out as if you’ve found someone’s journal. An entry is read and then the story behind the entry. Calvin was the third of the Connors family to bare the name Calvin, but not in a row.

Have you ever found someone’s journal or diary? And as you “snuck a peek” you realized it was really good? C’mon, you can tell me! Everyone’s curious what someone else’s life is like. You’d read it if you could wouldn't you? Yeah I thought so. Well the Phoenix Chronicles is just that. A really good fun filled journal. Actually there are excerpts of three journals spanning four generations. But the most are from Calvin Thomas Connors.

His life is chocked full of wild, strange, humorous and sometimes dangerous events. Follow him through the excitement of new discoveries. Laugh at his fun filled antics. Growl at the grade school bullies he teaches a lesson, and cry with his heartbreak. Skin your heart and skin your knees along with him, as he grows to manhood, and is expected to take control of Heavens Gate.

Now Heavens Gate isn't just an ordinary boarding house with a wondrous hidden workshop his Grandpa built and named the “Toy Box.” It also boasts (quietly) of a natural hot spring bathing pool in the court yard. By the way, did I mention the tenants love the bathing pool? It could live up to its name except for one small detail… it’s also an all women’s apartment house. Complete with a third degree black belt in Kenpo guarding it, and she’s out for blood! His! Ever since he embarrassed her she’s been seeking revenge.

Now all Calvin has to do is keep his head (preferably on his shoulders) and not tear his hair out. He wants the “Toy Box” but Granny said he has to have the apartments too. Deep under the mountain the “Toy Box” waits with the most wondrous toy. Phoenix! She’s beautiful silent, powerful, fast, (oops! Mom said never call a woman fast. Quick maybe, but never fast,) she has no wings, can fly and submerge. She can go from one to the other easily, and she may have been the cause of Grandpa Calvin’s premature death.

Calvin found the “Toy Box” when he was four years old and didn't tell anybody. And Phoenix slept unnoticed for over fifty years. Grandpa built her and Calvin decided he’d play with her “when I’m, bigger,” he said

Little did he know that his first chance to "play" with Phoenix wouldn't come for another sixteen years. When he returned from Europe he found things had changed, and his childhood friends had long since left. One lesson learned was you can never go back to the way it was, another lesson learned was a life of secrecy, and solitude. Everything about Calvin was masked, everything!

He'd have to be careful, or his tenants would find out his secrets. It's hard enough keeping ahead of one woman, but try seven. In Calvin's mind they all loathed him and he wanted nothing to do with their lives.

His belief of their feelings stemmed from how they reacted to him at first introduction and during some of his… um, shall we say, “Unconventional,” experimental techniques? Did I mention the experiments usually made all of them a nervous wreck? They didn't catch him the first time he dove off the cliff in the “batman suit” as Darcy called it. But they did ground him from the roof, the upper deck, and cliff side. Those places were “off limits!”

But the second time, when he dove from the Tea House eight hundred feet above the ocean water, they caught it on tape and caught him on the slope below. He was too tired to run, let alone defend himself. You guessed it; they stripped him out of his “batman suit” and took it away from him. “He’s not getting this back!” petite little Darcy growled. I wonder if he told them what he was up to, if they’d allow him to do it anyway? Nah, I guess not.

The secrets Phoenix held were very powerful and extremely dangerous. Grandpa had learned how to gather, contain and use antimatter. Phoenix had enough of it to flatten an area from horizon to horizon. So Calvin created a failsafe that would render any and all his inherited technology into dust and this included himself. He was the only one living that understood how it worked and just how dangerous it truly was.

Reading Grandpa’s journal (the whispers from the past) Calvin was following in his foot steps, almost to the day of the year. One last test on Phoenix and he’d know everything Grandpa did. But for some reason, Grandpa never completed his journal entry about this test. Calvin would recreate the test and complete the journal entry. What he didn't know was, there was a good reason this entry was never completed. It was this test that caused Grandpa’s death.

Phoenix was extremely agile, silent, and if you weren't careful, very dangerous.