L Foreign Shores Alex 2033 Although Alex had no doubt that he'd deserved it many times before in his life, this was the first time that he'd actually been slapped across the face. And fuck! It really stung. "You're a bastard!" said Lakeisha vehemently. "You're as bad as my fucking husband." Alex pressed his fingers against his cheek and hoped that...
1 - Prologue: "RAF Tonopah," Pilot Officer Dave 'Shifty' Roberts snorted cynically. "Don't make me sodding laugh. It's not an RAF station, all it is is a corner of a Yank bloody air base." Sitting at the terminal to the right was the surveillance systems operator, Flying Officer 'Sticky' Vicky Lloyd. An attractive slim woman, originally from Morpeth in N...
It is an indisputable fact that relations between the US President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev deteriorated dramatically in May 1960. The so called Cold War was at its highest at this time due to the capture of Francis Gary Powers. The American pilot had been shot down in his CIA U2 spy plane in Soviet airspace and the consequ...
"You know, if Australia doesn't drop the Queen as its Head of State, that is my only concern about possibly moving in with Tanveet in Melbourne. Only in the sense that I don't know how that would impact things, just because she has reserve powers. What if she uses them to help the New Order regime somehow? In principle, however, I would love to move to Austr...
XXXII Honourable Service Theo 2052 Theo was a murderer. He knew that. He was as much a murderer as the man who'd actually killed his employer. He'd lied in court about his role in the slaughter, but he knew the truth. It was he, as much as anyone else, who had murdered Eden St. John-Easton. As expected, the circumstances that accompanied the murder excus...
XVFaith and CharityEric Esterhazy MP2044 After the applause had died down, Reverend Dawkins once again addressed the televised audience seated ahead of her in the town hall. She had a hard fight ahead of her. Only the barest minority were sympathetic to her. Most of the applause was reserved for Eric Esterhazy, the Minister for Housing and MP for Redhill &...
Author's Note: When I first published this (I hope) slightly humorous little paper, it was just to answer some ill-informed anonymous critic, and explain to readers why I used the words I did in my stories. Little did I realise that it would raise more feedback from further afield than all of my stories put together! I've had comments from people from the U...
Another night in North London, England. Jonathan Starling sat in his apartment, sighing deeply as he looked at family pictures. His tall and dark-skinned Jamaican-American father, Jonas Starling, looking rugged while fishing in his hometown of Kingston, Jamaica. His mother Deirdre Hamilton, looking deceptively frail. The short and pale-skinned, fiery red-hai...
In early September 1944, the Second British Army, under the command of Marshal Montgomery, had just liberated Brussels and continued to advance towards the Dutch border with almost no German opposition, and while the Allied troops advanced on the Belgian highways, a Jeep with three women on board was traveling rapidly on one of them. The three occupants of t...
*This story uses characters created for and owned by Jay Ward Productions and is unauthorized.* * "Peabody here (dog genius), and this is my boy Sherman. Say hello, Sherman." "Hello," said Sherman. "Where and when are we going today, Mr. Peabody?" "Set the Wayback Machine for Cairo, Egypt and the year 1916, Sherman. We're off to visit Lt. T. E. Lawrence...