The Enoch Wars — Chapter 4

He Was Not

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He walks for two days in the dark carrying a newborn son toward a lightning storm. What he does when he arrives will cost him everything.

A cloaked figure stands alone before an ancient flaming sword rising from molten rock, fire and red smoke filling the sky, in a scene from He Was Not, a theological dark fiction story from the Enoch Wars series by Apokalypsis Magazine.
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