Charles was a people pleaser when I met him. He wanted to be friends with everybody. He always had a smile on his face. Each morning came with a new inspirational quote. Every breakfast was a feast. Every march an[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I recognized Charles Edward Hurst the first time I met him. Not that I actually knew who he was, you understand. Just what he was. I had seen his type before. The Capital F Family types. Old Money that could[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I watched Shang Chi over the weekend, and I enjoyed it. It had a good three acts, from introducing the new hero, giving him some complications, and going into the final confrontation. It is a general style that Marvel has[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There are times I marvel at the fact that so many of us managed to make it through twenty years of total war with our souls still intact. Those of us with cybernetic partners owe that to them. They were[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The United States military didn’t care much why I volunteered back in the day. They were desperate for recruits to fight off the alien Shang menace. But there was one person who did care. She chose the name Betty when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I wanted to kill all of the Shang when I volunteered to serve. The United States military was willing to go with me on that, but one thing stood in my way. I really wanted to be a starfighter pilot.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I loved my home. I loved my family. I loved those girls. But the Shang had killed the world I’d given up everything to hold to, and I was angry. I was so very angry. Way too angry to pack[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was thirty going on a hundred when my world came to an end. The world I loved. Yosemite fell and killed my parents. I sat down in a chair in my mom’s hospital room and didn’t stand up again.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was eighteen going on thirty and my world had come apart. The great loves of my life were gone, and I was too proud to go after them. They would come back. I knew it in my bones. No[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Michael Crichton is a perennial favorite author of mine. I have read many of his books over my life, from my teenage years until now, and I recently went back to reread one of the old and good ones that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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