After the Sun Rose

Robert E. Bryant

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“After The Sun Rose” is a collection of heartwarming stories as well as stories of unimaginable acts and selfish behavior.
After the sun comes up and a new day begins, the author has his characters learning about laborers of love, scheming to get what they want no matter who it hurts, witnessing the start of unthinkable and horrific acts, being the victim of a planned murder, and being a missing and unknown individual.

Sujets

• Stories
• Collection
• Short Stories
• Fiction

Informations

• Publié par: AuthorHouse
• Date de parution: 22 janvier 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781728377971
• Langue: English

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AFTER THE SUN ROSE
 
 
 
 
 
ROBERT E. BRYANT
 
 
 

 
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© 2023 Robert E. Bryant. All rights reserved.
 
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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, names, incidents, organizations, and dialogue in this novel are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
 
Published by AuthorHouse 01/19/2023
 
ISBN: 978-1-7283-7798-8 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-7283-7797-1 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2023901046
 
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

T he author would like to offer special thanks to the following people for their continued help, encouragement, and support: Sharon Underwood and Bob Underwood. Another thanks to the newest member of the team: DD
CONTENTS
There’s No Time to Cry
Suite 106
First Light
A Marked Life
JD
About the Author
THERE’S NO TIME TO CRY

BY ROBERT E. BRYANT

About this story:
Z imbabwe has endured years of civil unrest, poverty, and political tyranny, and ranks as the poorest country in the world. A quality education is something very hard to come by and if someone does graduate with a degree, they are unable to use those degrees to better their living conditions, just like in most other African countries. However, without knowing what is in store for Susan, a trip to New York will begin a chain of events that will set things in motion to help change some of those conditions.
Susan, along with two young girls, are standing about 25 feet away from two grave sites, while Dr. Sweets stands behind them. Susan is wearing an old vintage nurse’s uniform that belonged to her great-grandmother. A suitcase is on the ground next to Susan’s feet.
The name on one headstone reads, Dr. Susan Marie Lambreth. The other headstone reads, Dr. Logan Lane (LL) Lambreth. It has been seven years since Susan’s mother passed away, and her father passed away one year ago.
Susan, who was named after her mother, is a single 25-year-old woman working in a small clinic in Zimbabwe. It’s the same clinic where her parents had been doctors. The two young girls standing with her are her companions, assistants, and friends. Tanisha is 16 years old, and her African name means ambition. Nyasha, which means merciful and kindhearted, is 14 years old.
As Susan stood looking down at the gravesites of her parents, she tells Tanisha and Nyasha, “You two will be okay and I have all the confidence in you. You are smart and have learned so much. Otherwise, I would not be leaving you right now with Dr. Sweets.”
Dr. Sweets, who is one of the doctors at the clinic, has known Susan since she and her parents returned from New York twenty years ago. He is ageing in years and Susan has been a huge help to him since her father passed away. Dr. Sweets, knowing her brilliant skills as a doctor and surgeon tells her, “Susan, you know I have never had a problem with you not having your medical degree. You were trained by the best. I realized a long time ago that there are medical procedures you know or do better than I. I do understand your desire to do this, and I will miss you here at the clinic but look forward to your return.”
Susan was a gifted student and graduated from college when she was 18 years old. Not long after she graduated was when her mom got sick and passed away. Susan could not bring herself to leave her dad to go to medical school. Now that her dad is gone, Susan has decided to go to New York with the hopes of earning her medical degree, which has been a lifelong dream of hers. Because of her parents, Susan already has the knowledge and skills of a great doctor and surgeon, and all she needs now is the degree.
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Susan’s parents met while on a mission trip to Zimbabwe after they both graduated from college. They were both from New York. At that time, Marie’s mother was a nurse, and LL’s father was a dentist. When their time in Zimbabwe was over, they returned to New York. Marie and LL continued to see each other, and they married two years from the date they met in Zimbabwe.
After being married only a few months, Marie and LL soon realized they both wanted to return to Zimbabwe. They decided to go back but had to depend solely on mission offerings. They returned to the same clinic in which they were working when they first met.
Marie and LL had been working in Zimbabwe for about a year. They knew something had to be done to provide better healthcare and medical services. The poverty level was so bad in some areas, people who needed to go to the bigger hospitals couldn’t get there, and this led to some deaths. Also, there is the ongoing civil unrest causing numerous injuries but not enough doctors to perform the surgeries. Both Marie and LL, having parents with medical backgrounds, knew they needed to go on to earn their medical degrees. Although they knew it would take them several years to do this, they knew it had to be done.
LL and Marie attended a medical school in New York and they both received their degree. They immediately started their internship at one of the largest hospitals in New York, Lighthouse Medical Center. During their residency, Marie became pregnant with Susan, but that did not stop her nor LL from continuing with their surgical residency. After their residency, they continued working at the hospital and became brilliant doctors and surgeons and were well-known at the hospital and in New York.
When Susan was five years old, Marie and LL decided that it was now the right time for them to return to Zimbabwe.
Susan’s parents returned to the same village and the same clinic. Susan was with her parents every day, all day long, by their side watching them as they treated patients and performed surgeries. As Susan grew, they trained her in all areas and in no time, Susan was helping her parents with surgical procedures. Everything her parents showed her came naturally. Susan soon became known as their child prodigy.
Although Marie was a brilliant doctor and surgeon, it was LL who eventually became a renown surgeon and author. During his career as a surgeon, Doctor Lambreth performed more surgeries than any doctor on record. There wasn’t anything about the human body that Dr. Lambreth did not know how to operate on. He went on to write “Surgeon,” which became one of the most read books of all time.
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Tanisha, the 16-year-old, had learned to drive and wanted to drive Susan to the airport. Nyasha was sitting in the back seat of the Land Rover.
In Susan’s absence, Tanisha will be responsible for ordering medical supplies and other items for the clinic, as well as assisting Dr. Sweets in the operating room and treatment rooms. Nyasha will assist Tanisha in ordering medical supplies and will assist in other areas as needed. Susan has been teaching and training them ever since they showed up, hungry and dirty, at the clinic four years ago. Their parents are dead and have no other family. Susan took them under her wings, and they have been as close as sisters since.
After Tanisha parked the Land Rover, Susan tells Tanisha and Nyasha, “I don’t know how, but one day, I will do my best to arrange for the two of you to go to New York as well and get your medical degrees. The both of you are too brilliant to let the gifts that you have go to waste. Take care of yourselves and take care of Dr. Sweets while I am gone. Although we will be keeping in touch with each other, I will still miss you very much.”
The airport in Zimbabwe still uses the roll out stairway, and Tanisha and Nyasha watched as Susan goes out to board the plane. As Susan climbs up the stairs, she turns and waves goodbye to her best friends.
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As Susan finds her seat on the plane, she looks around and there are only a few passengers on board. She sits back and tries to relax while waiting on the plane to take off.
Not long after they took off and were well on the way to New York, the pilot, who is in his 50’s, comes back to greet the passengers. The flight attendant had previously told him about a young girl on board that is wearing a vintage nurse’s uniform, the same as you would have seen during World War II in the 1940’s.
As the pilot was making his way back toward the front, he stopped and struck up a conversation with Susan. The conversation continued and the pilot said, “I hope you do not mind me mentioning this, but I couldn’t help but notice the vintage nurse’s uniform you are wearing.”
Susan tells him, while smoothing out the wrinkles in the dress, “I’m sure I’m getting plenty of stares because of what I’m wearing. The fact is, I’m not a nurse or a doctor, but my parents were brilliant doctors. I’m on my way to New York with the hopes of getting my medical degree. With the training I had under my mother and father, I have the same knowledge and skills of a surgeon, but I just do not have it on paper.”
“Wow, very impressive. Tell me more,” the Pilot said.
Susan explains, “I will first stop at the same hospital where bot