Hello, my name is Jack

by on January 23, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Minnesota was real cold when I got home. California was real wet. And a host of other changes had come over Earth. The United States Weather Service had taken care of the really bad stuff, stopping every hurricane in the last five years, and they’d even made a dent in the tornado action on the Great Plains. They’d done a good job stabilizing things, but the global climate was a lot cooler than it had been before Yosemite fell. I don’t mind that one bit, but the Weather Service still has to give Florida special attention to keep all the orange groves from dying. Thank God they’re more reliable than the Postal Service.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on January 22, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The situation on the ground inside the Islamic State of Detroit was very different from that reported by the news networks. The government had used the old rules of Imminent Domain to “legally” confiscate the homes or businesses of Christians or any who did not swear to the Islamic faith. By the time that Twilight entered the city, the nearly 100% Muslim population no longer had an “other” to fear or drive away and had fractured along ethnic or religious lines. Africans did not mix with Arabs who did not mix with Persians, and the Shia and Sunni split was often downright violent, though that did not make the news. The Islamic State of Detroit was simmering on the edge of civil war when Twilight arrived. The spark was easy.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on January 21, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

My family did business with the Chinese back before The War. And they do it now as well. They probably did business with them during The War too if I am being honest. The point is that I had some experience with the Chinese before I went to the Hyades. Walking out in a business suit was still a gamble though. Someone might have shot me for walking down that street. But respect for businessmen was so ingrained in the Chinese psyche that not one person accosted me. Other Cowboys echoed my action, and it was amazing to see how things changed in the Hyades.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on January 20, 2016 at 12:01 am
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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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