The older staff members all called him Doc. I had no idea why until someone said that his name was Savage hence 'Doc'. It still meant nothing to me of course until one of the older men told me about the American cartoon character and I googled it. Dan Savage was a senior at my firm and reading the notes on Wiki I thought the nickname suited him rather well....
Author's Note: This is NOT the kind of Part 7 that is designed to stand alone. You will be very lost without having read the first six parts. This is also the final chapter of the series. Fair warning, it is a long one. Please remember that this story is set in 2018, which was the present back when I started writing it. As always, many thanks to EGRI, Ec...
Jonas Agonistes Chapter 1: Like a Novel by Robbe-Grillet I avoided bourbon but not scotch. Scotch. I found it helped me sleep, but upon further discrimination and many scientific trials I decided it helped me do something like sleep. I pushed it aside. I even poured out one of the half-full bottles in my drawer. Not the other one, though. Just one. Two we...
I remember as a child how war was presented to me. Like most children my first experience of war was through film. Those scripted pieces of supposed art that were as naïve as I was. Where the hero vanquished scores of enemies without so much as a scratch before setting off into the sunset. Oh how I admired those heroes when I was young and ignorant to the re...
Thanks to Devir Ginator for his editing skills. Any errors found are all mine. One more chapter to go then back to the New Girl world. **** "How are you feeling?" Alex asked as he met Michelle and myself as she pulled to a stop at the main house. "Tired, it's been a long day." Michelle quipped. "Oh you meant him, well his butt is sore from getting it che...
Parker's assertion that my boyfriend was having sex with someone else was as pathetic as it was predictable. "Is he really," I said, "I'm sure I would have noticed." "Really," said Parker, "I have evidence." "Oh, do tell Parker." "I've promised not to," he said. He leant against my car and sighed with a deep and meaningful shake of his head, and with his...
Norm My breath fogged in the February chill as I watched the hulking yellow and black earthmover bite deeper into the ground. The shovel carved out a clod of moist earth and swung its arm up and to the left to drop into the waiting dump truck. I felt tense, coiled like a spring, waiting for one of a dozen different disasters to happen: the side of the pit t...
Staring down the barrel of the assault rifle leveled at them, Inari answered the questions posed to her. "We are the crew of the freighter vessel, Darkstrider. We came aboard when we found this ship adrift," the captain responded. "Your names, now," Kasumi demanded brusquely. "Remove your helmets, so I can tell you apart." Surrounded by heavily armed Sentr...
This story is a bit wordy and fairly long, so if you are looking for immediate gratification, you might want to look elsewhere. The following story is a work of fiction. Any resemblance between these character and events and any real person or events is strictly coincidental . . . and pretty darn impressive seeing as it is a science fiction story. Do not re...
**This started out as a long, seven pager. I know that some readers don't mind that, but on the other hand, some folks don't have that kind of time in one sitting, so I've split this one up. O_o ------------ Lily opened her eyes and looked around for Sharon after a moment. She was about to call for her when the blonde woman came into the chamber that they'...