21st Century
Fred and Doris
Doris said, ‘I heard on the BBC that us old folk are going to be confined to barracks because of that virus. They said it’s for our own safety,’ Doris was 83 and her husband [more…]
Fiction
Fiction
Némésis – Book 3 Part 10
Another Time and Another place GUNSHOT WOUNDS TO THE CHEST Lillian Beate Holmen Gunshot wounds to the chest can be highly lethal. Depending on the injured organ, a large percentage of the patients die before [more…]
Fiction
Joe Malone, Part Fifty-Two
The bullets spat from the sub machine gun muzzle in a series of white flashes. I saw a puff of brick shards explode inches from my eyes as one bullet went into the wall in [more…]
Fiction
Némésis – Book 3 Part 9
Ad Dumayr Syria 23rd February 2018 Working through her grief, Ripley ritually washed Pela’s little body and then went back into the dead fighter’s hut and found a beautiful, royal blue chador in the [more…]
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Joe Malone, Part Fifty-One
“Only thing is, “I said to them, “It wasn’t just a pretend death, was it?. The person I saw in the basement had once been a human being. Before someone put them in a compactor [more…]
Fiction
The Book of Ruin – Book Two, Ch. Three
And Gordon did issue an proclamation to the Ancients saying, Buy ye all an dwelling of thine own for we have no interest in building ye homes that ye might rent, it is only by [more…]
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Némésis – Book 3 Part 8
Ad Dumayr Syria 22nd February 2018 Daffi Hashmi considered himself to be somewhat of a ladies man when he wasn’t hurting them and it was true to say he was handsome with a superficial charm. [more…]
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Joe Malone, Part Fifty
He couldn’t help himself. His trickery and manipulation was in his DNA. My headache was back. Making big white spirals at the top of my vision. Lack of sleep, mostly. So I told said to [more…]
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The Book of Ruin – Book Two, Ch. Two
“They say cocaine’s for horses and not for men, they say it’ll kill you but they don’t say when.” From an Ancients’ lullaby. A child: “Tell us, Old One, of Bo-Jo the Ho-Ho” “Ah, Bo-Jo [more…]