Me and Katy fought together before she joined the Cowboys, you know. She was part of the Space Force detachment defending Fort Wichita, while I was one of the Marines that came out of hyperspace and helped save her shapely[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for February, 2017
As I have said before, I had health insurance before Obamacare. It was around 100 bucks a month, covered the first 1,000 bucks a year, and then stepped away until I hit the deductible of 6,000 or 8,000 dollars. It’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Blaze is one of the older cybernetic intelligences that joined the Cowboys during The War. She was born half a century before it began, started life as an old Blackhawk fighter, and then upgraded to a newer Hellcat-class starfighter. Five[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Kathleen Reynolds is an old lady. Or so I like to tell her. She grew up in Iowa, on some family farm near Dubuque. She spent her youth dragging boys into cornfields or barns to keep her daddy and brothers[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jack, Betty, and Jasmine like to go to dress up for Halloween like anybody does. Sometimes they even go to conventions when they are in the right system. And they have been known to dress up in retro science fiction[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We sometimes get too caught up in trying to keep from dying that we forget to live. I promised myself a long time ago to see and recognize everything that makes life worth living. To pursue joy, enjoy beauty, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Chad Adelman and myself grew up in many of the same circles. He was the heir to one of Texas’ richest families. I was the heir to a rich Pennsylvania family. We found each other at many of the same[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Julie was a bright and cheerful presence in the Cowboys from the moment we came together. When she wasn’t giving me the stink eye, of course. She acted like she knew everything I was thinking and didn’t think much of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was scheduled to do a sleep test on Wednesday. In this case, I was to come in at 8:30 AM, get strapped up with a load of sensors that would read everything from how much I was breathing to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Chad Adelman was a native of the People’s Republic of Laredo, founded by the Second Great Depression-era amalgamation of old Texas and Mexico’s Laredo and Nuevo Laredo. They have expanded steadily over the centuries, absorbing numerous nearby small towns and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…