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Project Lazarus
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Author: Michelle Packard
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gave birth to a stillborn baby boy; they affectionately named Troy, despite his death.        
     
    Joey comforted his wife, “It’ll be okay.  We’ll get through this.”
     
    He was only met with a shattered face and tears.
     
    The baby named Troy was pronounced dead over two hours ago.  It was clear it would take a longer time for Rachel to recover from this devastating blow.
     
    “Why Joey?  Why Troy?  Why us?”
     
    The baby was taken out the room immediately when the Cotter Hospital doctors realized he wasn’t breathing.  They worked on him for 45 minutes before calling it quits.
     
    The room was empty, except for the deceased baby boy.
     
    Rachel had to see him one more time.
     
    “You know we can’t go down there,” Joey pleaded with her, “I don’t think it’s a good idea.”
     
    “Please,” she whispered.
     
    He couldn’t refuse and began to help his feeble wife.  She was too weak to make it but he tried to appease her.
     
    A cry.  A baby’s cry came from down the hall.
     
    Troy was alive.
     
    The couple looked at each other in awe.  The fury of doctor’s ensued.
     
    The baby, pronounced dead two hours ago was now among the living again.
     
    A miracle.  Or so it seemed.
     

Chapter 5- The Amazon Man
     
    The brush was thick.  Wild monkeys hooted and hollered from the trees.  Anaconda snakes lured under their feet, waiting for them, waiting for prey.
     
    The men continued through the unfamiliar territory. They were the prey.  And they knew it. Slowly, they walked.  Far away from camp now, this was the farthest they had ever gone into the jungle, the Amazon.
     
    “Professor Dempster…How much further?” Asked Commander Archibald Henrid.
     
    Commander Henrid was a man of medium height; his years of push-ups and such athletic training had made him superior in width, to rival any foe in the jungle. 
     
    “A little bit more, I think,” Professor Dempster answered hesitantly.
     
    His eyes darted like the wild animals that now surrounded them.  The fear of tigers or other such night terrors were now a reality. 
     
    “You think?” Commander Henrid’s controlled voice escalated in pitch but not sound.
     
    “Yes,” Charlie Dempster assured him.
     
    It was five years prior to the experiment that would raise a man from the dead in Cotter, Arkansas.  An elite division in the United States military had contracted Professor Dempster, who specialized in among many scientific areas, a unique study of lost tribes capable of raising the dead.
     
    Now, Charlie Dempster, Commander Henrid and his unit were in charge of finding a lost tribe in the Amazon. They were searching for members of “Those of The Arrow”, a group of indigenous people that had never seen another human being before. 
     
    “Those of The Arrow” were ruthless and as their name insinuated very good with poisonous arrows.  Getting close wouldn’t be easy, in fact, it could be deadly.  Smarter than other tribes, they had survived the years of revolutionary men trying to now cultivate and tear down the rain forest.  They survived on rumor.  They survived on tales.  They survived by killing.  They survived because they knew how to hide and they knew how to raise the dead.
     
    It was the dream of any “National Geographic” reporter or photographer.  But journalists weren’t destined to be the first to come face to face with these all but extinct tribes. While such journalists might imagine the moment of eye to eye, face to face contact with such an obscure tribe, the thrill and recognition they might experience when two individuals would realize they were of the same humanity, that wasn’t to be the case for those journalists.
     
    This was an unusual encounter, one in which men from another land were coming to extract one man from a tribe.
     
    Commander Henrid had at his command 15 men, all snipers; their goal was to take the leader, the man with the power to raise the dead. They
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