The Lost Boys and Girls and different. Think of the single-minded determination of a ten year old. Think of how much honesty they display. Think of how conniving they can be. Selfless and selfish. I suppose they are more like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for January, 2015
Elizabeth never saw the English Blackout of 2048 coming. It was a different attack than the others, aimed at a specific power station. It was a masterful stroke, aimed at causing stress to the surviving grids by taking one station[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
North Vietnamese troops would invade the long-lost countries of South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos during the Second Indochina War, and had help from China, Russia, North Korea, and numerous other nations. America tried to stay out of it at first,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Lost Boys and Girls really never grow up. There aren’t many of them, but there are enough that they have their own demographic groups. They never hit puberty. They never discover girls or boys. They will never be adults,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Not all of the issues Elizabeth had with her daughters were amusing to others. She tried to keep them under control, as most mothers do. They fought her control, as most daughters do. And sometimes they really acted out to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It takes a strong mind to kill another human being. Some become hard and uncaring. Some minds scream in protest at it. The fires of war destroy some people. Some people become stronger, become what they need to be to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The southern winner wasted no time before officially seceding from Vietnam to form the new Republic of Vietnam. Most people who have studied this conflict know it as South Vietnam, even if it was more southwestern than true south. History[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s just something eerie about watching a ten year old in a suit arguing law before the United States Supreme Court. I mean, you know he’s not but he looks it. We’re used to people not looking their age now.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Things were not always good between Elizabeth and her daughters. They’d been born to fight a war and for many years thereafter they remained under her control. But she’d coded them with different personalities to confuse their enemies, and in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The First Indochina War ended with a peace treaty that called for peaceful elections and a unified nation. The socialist north quickly began taking measures to make certain they won the election. The capitalist south did the same in their[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…