ONLY THE DEAD FISH SWIMS WITH THE STREAM - HEROES AND VILLAINS - Wealth dies, kinsmen die, A man himself must likewise die; But one thing I know which never dies - The verdict on each man dead. Hávamál1 In history, and in story telling, Heroes and Villains, the one not so very different...
Chapter 28 -- Candidate Vladim Dukov By the beginning of October, Upper Danubia had reached an important crossroads in its history. The "Progressives", now aided by corporate campaign donors and foreign professional political advisors, were well organized and campaigning aggressively. Their advisors had developed a slick advertising campaign against the Par...
I would like to thank jacosg21 for having the time and patience to edit this story, the work is entirely my own and any mistakes or faults are mine alone. "My soul was bounded to hers before creation" Nizami 'Majnun Leyla'. Daniel was lost in the wilderness of mirrors and self-delusion. His obsession over Haifa continued unabated and he used every opport...
The landmark Supreme Court decision commonly referred to as Citizens United paved the way for a radical restructuring of the political dynamic of the United States as money flooded into campaigns as never before. Corporations, interest groups, organized labor, and exceedingly wealthy individuals all vied for influence in Washington D.C. with a deluge of cash...
July 18, 2025 "We interrupt this broadcast for a Special Report from ABS News." The loud trumpet sound associated with the alert was disturbing, but perhaps not as disturbing as the report that followed. "Good evening. I'm John Harrington of ABS News. The White House is denying the authenticity of a surveillance tape that has been sent to the New York Tim...
Author's Note: This is written with a nod to the children's book: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. Enjoy! If you give a writer a laptop... He's going to want a word processing program to go with it. And if you give him a word processing program, and he spends enough time reading stories on Literotica, he will probably feel inclined to write something on it. H...
XX The Good of the Country Psychlone 2106 "Eric Esterhazy is a cunt." Psychlone, or Simon as he was still known to his mother or Psy as his friends called him, liked the lyric's essential message, but it raised a host of obvious issues. If he incorporated the phrase into his next release, would anyone even know who Eric Esterhazy was? If it hadn't been f...
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Chapter 13 – Paul Amy's relationship with Robert had changed radically by the beginning of her second year of college. Amy was now Robert's equal, and his friend. She still approached him for advice when she felt that she needed it, but as a friend, not as a surrogate daughter. She still felt a deep respect for him and cared for him deeply. He had saved her...
This editorial originally appeared under my real name in the newspapers I edit. The late historian William Manchester wasn't in the same class as David McCullough or others, but once in a while he would come up with some particularly good information. One example came in his never-finished biography of Winston Churchill, some years before he was thrust int...