chapter five The various outcomes of the so-called Tet Offensive of January 1968 will be debated by historians for as long as students gather and talk about that pivotal year in America History. What had been an at-best tepid anti-war movement in America blossomed, after Tet, into the raging inferno of anti-establishment riots that shredded American society...
Part IV Chapter 37 ____________________________________ When Callahan went into CID two days later, Frank was waiting for him. "Come in. Shut the door behind you." Callahan sensed something was up, but Bullitt looked strange. Very unsettled, really. "What's up?" Callahan said as he sat in Frank's tiny office. "Evelyn. She told me something. Something...
Part IV Chapter 29 ____________________________________ Harry watched Stacy Bennett, now sitting beside the pool behind Avi's house at the Tel Aviv compound, as she took her morning coffee and, like Jim Parish, he was getting increasingly worried about her fragile - and rapidly deteriorating - emotional state. Since returning from her 'assignment' in Bost...
This started as the introductory scene for a novella twenty times longer. I gutted it because I didn't like where it made up its mind to go. Afterward, I realized this was a complete story—beginning, middle, and an ending—on its own, albeit a very short one. Which isn't to say that we won't see Glenn again in a serialized set of stories of which this would...
(Bridget has been talking to me again. As always, when the story she relates is from her centuries as a vampire, the tale is from "Bridget's Nights". Since this one taking place after she became human again it is from her "Days". The movie line she thinks of in the old mine is from the John Wayne movie "The Cowboys".) My sword whistled through the air as I...
DISCLAIMERS: Any person involved in a sexual act is above the age of 18. All characters appearing in this work are fictitious, and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. This story contains some supernatural events, but is not intended to disrespect any religion. This story also has fictitious members of the Imperial family...
CHAPTER 29 - THE HORSE'S LITTLE PONY Nguyet's short visit two weeks ago had left me highly agitated. I had caught myself having prurient thoughts many times in my life, but that Nguyet had left her baby with her mother to come to my house for some tender moments was something else. I was still impressed, as it showed how strong her yearning must have been....
I came home one day a few years back and my wife told me I had gotten a call from some guy who claimed to have flown with me in Vietnam. When she told me his name I recognized it instantly. He had been one of my crew chiefs on a UH-1H during the second half of my first tour. He was a bright and cheeky guy with a haircut and handlebar mustache that wasn't cl...
[a little note: surgery as expected a week ago, an unexpected post-op infection intervened and I'm in a new hospital, trying to beat that back. Well enough today to write, so finished this chapter. Not on email (Sorry, Christian). More as I know it...A] Part IV Chapter 30 ____________________________________ Callahan and his spotter were standing in a fi...
Part V Chapter 46 The valet at Trader Vics pulled up in the Rover and Callahan helped Linton Tomlinson into the passenger seat. "Are you sure you're okay to drive?" she asked. "Yes. Perfectly." "I don't understand. How could you drink so much and...?" "Because I was drinking pineapple juice, on the rocks." "I, uh, don't understand..." "Let me explain...