Hello, my name is Jack

by on January 20, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

I fought The War out in space. Other people fought back home, on Earth, and for all the fact that we never did try to nuke each other, there was a lot of fighting. I hope I live long enough to see the truth declassified, so I hope this isn’t news to you. But Yosemite Winter wasn’t an accident. At least not entirely. None of it was. Not the fires. Not the floods. Not the droughts. And those weather satellites over the Pacific weren’t put there to regulate the wildly oscillating weather fronts causing chaos in the Americas. Those hurricanes and everything that came with them were courtesy of the Chinese weather wizards. They were real ingenious little buggers.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on January 19, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The Islamic State of Detroit (and surrounding regions) suffered from exactly zero public dissension. Throngs of adoring crowds hungered for every chance to see their ruling mullahs, and the President of Detroit had last been elected by an amazing 100% of the voting population. The Islamic State of Detroit was an idyllic example of a modern and peaceful Islamic government. Or so their very good public relations and news services promoted. And most of the news networks agreed. Sending in the National Guard had been a very unpopular act, and the newsies skewered the remnants of the Michigan State government in Lansing for the “provocative act.” It was an interesting time that the Twilight series showed in living color via actual news reports.

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Jack of Harts Wiki

by on January 18, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Jack of Harts has recently entered a new age of Internet presence. Thanks to work over the weekend with my awesome website provider my WordPress site is updated and I now have a working…wiki. Yes, a wiki. Soon, instead of links to tvtropes consuming hours of your time, Jack of Harts will seek to provide you with the same temporal diversion. I do this of course for your perusal and enjoyment. And because I would like to have some of the stuff I’ve published be capable of being read in a different way. If you are interested in helping me work on the wiki, please message me. And if you have experience with wikis and think you can give me some warnings on what not to do, I’ll be happy to take that too. This is a new venture after all, and will probably be full of learning experiences. 🙂

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on January 17, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The survivors of the Hyades had little love their rulers, and less for us when we came. Our military came into the ruins and acted like they were in charge, but every man, woman, and child who grew up in the Chinese system knew that the military took their orders from the businessmen. It was an amazing trap we fell into. I was testing a theory the day I walked out into the streets in the “old money” suit my family favored. I walked without an escort and could feel every eye on me. The two children arguing in the street was my gamble. I demanded to know the reason for their argument as if I had a right to know. They took one look at me and explained everything. I listened, made the best judgment I could on the matter, and they accepted it as if I had every right to make it. That was the day I began to truly understand the Chinese.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on January 16, 2016 at 12:01 am
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Yosemite Winter wasn’t actually all bad you know. I remember when the entire American South West and most of Old Mexico was a desert for instance. Now breads made from Arizona Wheat are a delicacy on all the best Western Alliance worlds. And seeing grass growing around the Egyptian Pyramids is kinda cool. Though there’s something wrong about ice fishing in May outside my old home on the Minnesota-Canada border. And don’t get me started about walking outside in January. But I remember seeing the footage of the fires as they blew through Yosemite National Park. That was the start of a real bad time.

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