21st Century Censorship (What is Obscene or Indecent...can you please tell me?), and the Hypocrisy of the FCC Shit. Piss. Fuck. Cunt. Cocksucker. Mother-fucker. Tits. Those are the so called 7 dirty words you can't say on an on-air broadcast. Since George Carlin famously said those seven dirty words over 30 years ago, a few have been added as well. Asshole,...
You live, shit happens, and then you die. Life can be summed up thus. And it's the creed that I live by. My name is Adawiyah Abdul-Samad. I was born in the town of Duba in the Tabuk Province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Ten years ago my family moved to the City of Ottawa, in the Ontario region of Canada. And life has never been the same for us. For starte...
This is the first part of my first story, inspired by a friend of mine serving in the Canadian army. No sex in this one. ******************* Now a newly minted Captain, Matt Young stared out of the bar's window, looking at the rain softly flow down the pane of glass as the night took hold. After what seemed like an eternity, he quietly turned back to the b...
The C17 touched down and quickly taxied to the dispersal area. As the rear ramp lowered, ambulances reversed up to it to receive the wounded. Robert's stretcher was conveyed to a waiting Bell 206L Long Ranger helicopter, belonging to Sir Royston; the helicopter was painted in the colours of a med-evac aircraft. After loading its passengers and receiving...
This story is fiction. I have tried to minimize the use of military jargon or at least use the full names of ranks and when using slang terminology, explain them in conjunction with the slang. ***** A Nice Librarian Jayson Alexander waved to his wife as she drove away; she gave him an air-kiss and a tiny beep of her horn in farewell. He smiled to himself...
2015 Seattle, WA I was not pleased. I had completed an audit of a bank in Seattle, which resulted in the arrest of the manager and several employees. Instead of getting my usual reward and hitting the road in search of new adventures I was stuck managing that very bank until they found a replacement. I suspected that my reward of being kept of at this bra...
Ben Winston is a member of the Army Reserve Medical Corp and had been unexpectedly called to active duty. Catherine had to except a promotion to supervisor on the night shift in order to make ends meet. Ben's mother volunteered to come and help Catherine and the children while Ben was away on deployment. When Michael and Jerry returned from summer camp thei...
I finished the first part of this story where I did because that was where I wanted it all to end, but feedback from readers and reality told me that it simply couldn't end there. There had to be permanent closure. There are several incidents mention in this part of the story that are of historic importance. These are not figments of my imagination, they ar...
I've been playing with the storyline here for some time but was unable to bring it together. However, the other day I was re-watching Casablanca. It struck me that Humphry Bogart was able to create two distinct characters Richard Blaine in Paris and Rick in Casablanca. It was what I needed here. WARNING this is what is referred to as a raac story or at leas...
Ken and I were home from our second tour in Afghanistan. He had told me a lot about his "baby" sister, Jenna. Even though she was eighteen, he still called her his baby sister since she was ten years younger than him. He'd said, "Jenna really is a doll, Bill. She has long blonde hair and blue eyes. I'm sure all the guys are after her, and that worries me."...