Thanks to blackrandi for the invitation to the Wine and Old Lace event. Historical pieces can be pretty challenging and I've tried to do this one justice. Thanks to MsCherylTerra, stev2244 and norafares for the beta reads and editing. This would be unreadable without all of them. There are others who prefer not to be named; you know who you are, and you know...
4 - The Bunker: It's early. I's dark. It's only to be expected in February I suppose. When I fired up my BMW R1100GS motorbike I suppressed the desire that the big one-point-one litre twin boxer engine would wake up the neighbours. I'm just malicious like that, especially at this godforsaken hour. I do the run into work on autopilot. Let's face it, I've...
The year is 1967, the Summer of Love. This is the era of Rock & Roll. The Beatles, The Stones, The Doors, and Procol Harum are the top bands. Johnson is president. The Vietnam War is in full swing. Anti-war marches alternate with civil rights protests, often led by Martin Luther King. Gas prices are 33 cents a gallon and cigarettes are 35 cents a pack. A...
-------------------------------------------------- There is no sex in this story, sorry about that. -------------------------------------------------- In a galaxy far, far... No, forget that. Actually it is the our own galaxy, the Milky Way, and in the not too distant future...relativity speaking . Location: Hearing Room 4, Parliament Building, Capital C...
Og's Blog Pt 05 Og becomes a civil servant. Part 01 Author's Note: Because of the Official Secrets Act, this has to be regarded as a fictionalised account and names will be omitted. +++ When I went to Australia for two years the intention was that I would go to school there and take the Australian equivalent of the UK's A levels - university entrance qua...
I'm not really sure what happened. The night before, I had fallen asleep, watching a rebroadcast of one of my favorite Sunday morning news shows. It was October 2008 and I was staying overnight in a hotel in North Carolina, having just finished a meeting with a tech company that my company did consulting work for. The next morning I found myself in the same...
Charles was far from happy with the situation. Should he just take off and start a new life, outside the area, where no one could catch him? He quickly realised that was not on the cards, as this was the only life he had right now. After all, what else would he do? Charles was pleased he had kept his nerve and stayed. For on her return Sandra announced they...
* * * * * Click Here to listen: .mp3 format or .ogg format. (11.5 min/mp3) * * * * * Jennifer was a 25 year old psychology student that had always had an interest in the paranormal and had decided to do her thesis on a local legend of the surrounding area woods and the tale of them being haunted by a Civil War starcrossed pair of lovers. The tale went t...
Those that have never taken the time to get to know him, think of Griffin Connors as an eccentric old man. At fifty years old, he is still a very striking man. He is five foot ten, and weighs around one hundred eighty-five pounds. He has steel blue piercing eyes, that most fail to see are full of warmth. One only has to look beyond the full beard and moustac...
"Mr. Bauer, I..." "Jack. Call me Jack." "Yes, well, Jack! I can't say I'm pleased to have you coming back to work at UMMSDPU. I fought to..." "UMMSDPU? I'm sorry, I thought this was CTU---Counter Terrorism Unit?" "That just shows how out of touch you are. Since the President officially ended the War on, ah, well, you know the 'T' word, that awful word is...