We called our band the Extreme Licks. Not the best name ever, but everything had to have the word extreme somewhere if you wanted to sound shiny back then. Our logo was a big tongue with arms and legs jamming[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Humanity had played with hacking in the later part of the twentieth century, but mobile computing and satellite communications brought interdependence on computers in the next that made war on that level possible. The Americans, the Chinese, and the Russians[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Thanksgiving Day is a day set aside by our government to give thanks to God. It has usually been in thanks for a good harvest, though at times it has been thanks for surviving a war. I know it can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Julie and Alex were the brains of the band. They said we needed different instruments. I figured three guitars was just fine, but they said the sounds would work well from different…things. They lost me on the music theory, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
By the early twenty-first century, most hackers had melded into one of two groups. Some worked for governments or corporations, while others did it for fun or other reasons. Many cut their teeth in the various cultural movements of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
All I cared about was girls and parties when I was young. Family too. We used to have the best get togethers. Then the Shang blew Yosemite Yards out of the sky and dropped its remains all over western America.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Chinese offensive pushed the American and South Korean forces into a long retreat down the Korean peninsula. They killed hundreds of thousands of South Koreans and only American naval superiority allowed the UN to evacuate two hundred thousand soldiers[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There aren’t a lot of bands with flutes and trumpets. Guitars though? Those are big in bands. So I taught Julie and Alex to play guitar. Don’t get me wrong. They knew how to strum a guitar before we got[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fringe elements of society will always be with us. There are some people who will always see, act, and be different. Some will never be able to conform. Some of them will always be able to interact with society, deal[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mainland China had fallen to the socialists by the time of the Korean War and they had an impressive army. They had minimal training but decades of experience in the long Chinese Civil War. They’d taken hideous losses against the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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