Live Long and Prosper

by on March 2, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

I grew up watching the search for new life and new civilizations. The first books I read of my own volition concerned that starship. I learned what volition and so many other words I’d never heard of meant from those books. And in a testament to the America I grew up, I thought the kiss between a certain comm officer and a captain was naughty because he was her superior officer. The color of their skin meant nothing to the world I grew up in. I video taped every episode and watched as a cold-blooded, green-blooded alien proved himself as human as any other member of the crew. I learned about life, death, and life from those people and they have influenced how I write today. I have been and always shall be a Trekkie. Live Long and Prosper Leonard Nimoy. You fly now with those who passed on before you.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on March 1, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The veterans of Vietnam became a blight on American history. Too many Americans on the ideological left despised them, and too many people in the center or on the right ignored them. The Vietnam veterans fell through the cracks of society and the wandering homeless slightly crazy veteran became a stereotype of the time. It was a shameful time in American history that was not ended until well into the next century.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on February 28, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Character Profiles, Diaries

Jesse is another of the friends I made during The War. One of the few who never got killed during it. He was a good man. Didn’t hate the Shang like me and Ken did. He was a Kansas farmer before Yosemite and it showed in how he worked. He made me feel kinda lazy sometimes in fact. Probably the best thing he brought to the Cowboys was his morality though. He never enjoyed killing. He did it if he had to, but he didn’t rejoice in death. He was a good example to follow in that.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on February 27, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Many AIs that came out of the networks in the 2050s never fought. For every government or college student there was a corporation that made one to represent them in the digital age. Microsoft’s Cortana, Blizzard’s Nova, Disney’s Snow White, and Dreamworks’ Fiona are several examples of such personas. These corporate AIs rarely engaged in hostilities, though there are the rumors of corporate espionage and of course the various digital shenanigans they aimed at each other. They truly enjoyed embarrassing the competition…

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on February 26, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Veterans who came home from Vietnam had many problems. Anti-war activists assaulted them upon their return while others merely ignored them. Even those who supported them rarely understood what they’d gone through. Chemical weapons and combat trauma left their marks on the veterans and many of them couldn’t return to the life they’d had before. They couldn’t keep jobs, houses, or even families. For many their lives fell apart.

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