I had read that the boat went down south of the big island of Hawaii. I knew the area well and after a quick call, found out that they had survived. They had sunk not far from there. Their vacation had been timed for March twenty-third as an eighteenth birthday present for her. I winced as I thought of what they must be going through. That island was off lim...
"Sandy, the fireworks are hailin' over Little Eden tonight/ Forcin' a light into all those stony faces left stranded on this warm July." With those words Bruce Springsteen begins to paint a picture of one aspect of life as he knew it on the Jersey Shore. For better or worse we've also been subjected to MTV's version of life on the "Jersey Shore." Let me gi...
When Josh and Alex got back to the lagoon, it looked deserted at first. The sun was going down, and the tall cliff-walls all around it hid the whole place in deep shadows. There were no mermaids perched on the rocks here, nor basking in the waterfalls, nor lounging in the high fresh-water pools that spilled into the brackish inlet. But then Alex dove under...
LEARNING AND SETTLING IN BY SW MO HERMIT Warren wandered down the crowded street enjoying the renaissance festival's version of middle ages music and the period costumes. This was his favorite time and festival of the year, the annual renaissance festival held by his home town. He was super happy to be there this year and wondered if he would be able to at...
Brad woke up and stretched his arms; he checked that his loincloth was securely around his waist. In the kitchen were his catch of the day was lying on the counter. He flayed the fish and salted a couple to preserve them and he fried up the rest for his dinner. He washed up and took a shower to clean himself up for this evening. Not everyone had a partner or...
1 Mark asked, "How many assistants do I get or need?" Angela said, "Most monarchs have an entourage of friends and family, but they usually start with one personal assistant just to bounce ideas off of, but your assistant should be someone that's with you most of the time and they should know the workings of the government. You can always add more if the...
This set of stories are meant to be read as chapters in a book. If you haven't read the previous chapters of the Great Loop, I recommend you do to better understand the characters. All characters are fictional. Obviously, many of the place locations are real. ***** After leaving the cabin, I found an anchorage in Georgian Bay for the night before cross...
The telephone rang at 3:08 a.m. The occupant of the house one mile from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., got up out of his bed and answered the telephone in the kitchen of his house. Once he answered, the caller hung up. The occupant of the house hung up the phone, sighed, and went back to bed in the darkness of the house. Five minutes later, someone knoc...
Tom sat on a small hill. He had a good view of the beach and the ocean. He was thinking about the report he would write. Tom was on assignment from the State Department. He was working as an independent investigator under contract. In the past he had been to a war zone, an isolated village, a crowded Eastern city and other places but he had never been sent t...
The hospital at Oasis had a shower room which had been hastily converted into a decontamination area. Two shapely doctors in gas masks and skintight latex hazmat suits entered the shower room pushing Adam in front of them. He now wore a latex hazmat suit himself—tailored slightly differently from theirs, but just as form-fitting. The latex doctors had force...