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    The Evil Of God
    The Evil Of God
    The Evil Of God
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    The Evil Of God

    By Tim Ellis

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    The third and final part of the God The Banana trilogy. The Evil Of God tells how Benjamin Bremmer, the adopted messiah of the evil god Imti Mentoo, sets about securing the release of his friend Doug from a squalid Amangan prison cell. On the way he discovers a disquieting truth about his own family, and reignites his passion for the now not-so-pious Teri. We finally learn why Imti Mentoo is waiting for Ben in the cathedral and what it is the god has been holding all day. The evil of this god is revealed in all its ghastly totality.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTim Ellis
    Release dateNov 25, 2014
    ISBN9781311011978
    The Evil Of God
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    Tim Ellis

    Tim Ellis lives in Harrogate, North Yorkshire in the UK, where he runs a small gardening business. He is fascinated by wildlife, especially birds, and with his partner the artist Robbie Burns he has travelled around much of the world seeking out the rare and the beautiful. As a poet he divides his talents equally between page and stage. His first book was a collection of 40 sonnets around a theme of birds called Birds of the World in Colour, published by Flarestack in 2004, and his second book was a poetic journey through Latin America called Gringo on the Chickenbus, published by Stairwell Books in 2011. On Smashwords he has self-published two "verse-novels", On The Verge and God The Banana, the latter in three parts called The Prophet of Amanga, The Temple of the Monkey, and The Evil of God. His poems have appeared in several magazines including The Dalesman, Orbis and the Poetry Society’s Poetry News. He has won many prizes including 1st prize in the 2011 Huddersfield Grist Poetry Competition. On the performance side, he is a well known face at slams, festivals and Open Mics throughout the North of England. He is a previous winner of the Ilkley Literature Festival Open Mic Competition and in 2011 he won the first York Poetry Slam. He can occasionally be found at poetry events in York and Leeds, but his principal haunt is Poems, Prose and Pints at the Tap & Spile pub in Harrogate.

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      The Evil Of God - Tim Ellis

      Part 3 of God The Banana

      Tim Ellis

      Published by Tim Ellis at Smashwords

      Copyright 2014 Tim Ellis

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      In The Prophet Of Amanga, the first part of the God The Banana Trilogy https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/489438 a young graduate called Benjamin Bremmer has travelled to the tropical island republic of Amanga with his friend Alec, to work as a volunteer helper in an orphanage established by his bishop father. Unbeknownst to Ben, he has been adopted as a messiah by the evil local deity Imti Mentoo, represented in icons across the island as a man with a huge erection. Parting company with Alec, Ben fell in love with a fellow orphanage volunteer from his own country, Teri. Ben and Teri took some time off to travel together around Amanga. Ben’s interest in the native polytheist religion of Amanga caused friction with the devoutly christian Teri, and added to Teri’s pious attitude of celibacy their relationship began to crumble. The disagreements came to a head in the desert city of Rankoor when Ben met another traveller from their country, the blond and seductive Charlie, and Teri returned alone to the orphanage in the capital city, managed by the ferocious Rosemary.

      In part 2, The Temple Of The Monkey Ben started a new relationship with Charlie and the couple continued travelling. In the market hill-town of Chankachanga they met up with an acquaintance of Charlie’s, the laid-back surf dude Tom, who was staying at a forest ashram dedicated to the Monkey God Rakiman, run by Guru Bhogi. The trio continued together to the ashram where Charlie became enamoured of the drug-reliant cult of Bhogi, but Ben became disillusioned especially when he discovered that Bhogi was negotiating with Ben’s own uncle, a hard-nosed businessman called Bernard, to sell a section of the forest in his keeping that was essential habitat for endangered orang-utans, to be turned into an oil-palm plantation.

      Ben tried to alert his ally Doug, a research biologist camped in another part of the forest, but Bernard had Doug arrested on false charges. Meanwhile Guru Bhogi had attempted to induct Charlie into his cult by means of an abusive sexual ritual, but Charlie escaped. Meeting up later on a bus to the Holy City of Moshadir, Ben and Charlie agreed to separate. Returning to the capital city, Ben had a night of passion on a train with an older woman called Sarah. Mees, a young orphan girl in the slums of Moshadir to whom Teri had previously given a crucifix, became imprisoned in a paedophile brothel on the city outskirts.

      For several days the god was unable to tell

      what Ben was doing: he’d spent a lot of time

      phoning and typing; standing in unmoving lines;

      refused admission to courtrooms and holding cells.

      He lodged alone in a famous colonial pile

      where an antique phallic vase kept watch until

      the prophet was seen in the lounge of this fine hotel

      taking morning coffee in some style,

      clean-shaven now, respectably attired.

      His visitor the god remembered well

      - he’d seldom seen a woman he less desired -

      her grey hair bunned up like a cobblestone,

      her look disposed to freeze the fires of Hell

      - Rosemary, who ran the children’s home.

      Benjamin, it’s kind of you... the hag was saying

      "...to treat me to coffee in this fine place of yours...

      ...I’ve not been in here for more than twenty years..."

      her eyes went cloudy, "...then, your father was paying.

      The Bishop was here...Oh yes…I’ll have one more then!"

      She nodded to a waiter who’d come plying

      a tray of biscuits. "The two of them were laying

      the groundwork for my Christian Home for Orphans."

      "My father was investing stacks of trust

      in someone very young..? Why’re you staying

      in this PALACE, she snapped, and not with us?"

      Hardly plush, Ben laughed, and it was true:

      cornices crumbled, traditional rugs were fraying,

      old portraits hung discoloured by mildew.

      "The reason’s it’s the cheapest I could find

      that offers guests unlimited Wi-Fi access..."

      "You youngsters think the key to any success

      is the Internet and nonsense of that kind.

      Lord Jesus used but spoken word and prayer!"

      "But Rosemary! I’m trying to help my friend,

      Douglas, who’s been most unjustly confined.

      I need it to alert the world he’s there."

      "Are you sure it’s not just that a person

      - one I suspect still occupies your mind -

      is working for me? Could it be you’re uncertain

      how she’s disposed? A matter of the heart?"

      Ben coloured up and muttered that he was resigned

      to the fact that he and Teri were poles apart.

      If she lights your fire you ought to pursue it.

      The god near retched at the pertness the old maid displayed.

      My intuition tells me she’ll be pleased.

      The youth declared her hunch too much to intuit,

      but the woman insisted

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