Jack of Harts

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by on January 19, 2024 at 12:02 am
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We found hyperspace in 2105 and the Great Space Race began. Alliances, nations, corporations, and religions reached out for the stars and humanity spread beyond the Solar System. We learned the answer to one of the oldest questions of all time in 2205. Are we alone? They brought medicines with them that nearly wiped out diseases, and extended the human lifespan into the centuries. They helped us study advanced technologies, and we expanded our colonies hundreds of lightyears from Earth. It was a golden age that many thought would never end.

Jack grew up in a world at peace, his only interests, partying and girls. But then an alien sneak attack killed millions of Americans, and wiped out almost everything and everybody Jack knew. He volunteered to serve and kick the alien scum back to the other side of the galaxy. But the Marines wanted more than people looking for revenge, and cybernetic partners demanded a far higher commitment. If Jack wanted to earn his commission as a Marine Corps fighter pilot, he had to grow up. He had to let himself be forged into something stronger than he’d ever wanted to be. He had to live up to the name of his squadron.

The Republic of Texas Marine Corps Fighter Attack Squadron 112. The Cowboys.

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Fourth of July Terrorists

by on June 19, 2026 at 12:01 am
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You may have heard about the Fourth of July Terror attack, depending on which news services you pay attention to.

Trump scheduled a UFC fight on the White House grounds and Americans came from all over to enjoy a rough and tumble fight where big burly men beat on each other until one of them surrenders or is rendered unable to continue the fight. You might remember from history that Abraham Lincoln was a boxer long before boxing became the careful and gentle sport it is now. And he was by reports a bit of a monster at it. All of this was scheduled as part of the ongoing festivities celebrating the 250th birthday of the United States of America. We had Air Force flyovers, military bands playing patriotic tunes, and everything else you would expect of a celebration of our nation’s birthday.

We also had the expected Democrat protests against celebrating our nation’s birthday. The screaming and knashing of teeth over the idea that dumb UFC fighters and their dumber fans would be allowed to celebrate America on the hallowed White House grounds that should be reserved for the kind of topless dancers and public sexual orgies the Democrats like to show off on Easter Sunday, or on Transgender Visibility Day as they called it that year. And of course… you know… Trump. They had singing acts that reminded me of the worst singing episodes of Star Trek and Babylon Five and make me think fondly of all those world Soccer fans singing songs in football stadiums right now. I grew up in church and school and college choirs. I wrote music. You have to work really hard to sing so badly that I think fondly of fans singing in football stadiums.

Now around all of this, there was a planned terror attack on the White House grounds that day. And it was actually a very good one. They were going to use explosive drones flying near the White House to cause an evacuation designed to funnel people away from the White House into an area they had snipers set up in so they could shoot into the crowd and kill as many people as possible. And as we all know from a certain concert terror attack from a few years ago, a well-prepared sniper attack shooting into a crowd can be devastating. Based on what we know so far, it involved dozens of people who had the resources to actually make it happen. And we just found out that the ringleader of the attack is one of the illegal aliens Obama invited into the country. He obviously wanted to enrich our country with the kind of political violence that is more common where he comes from.

Now I do have to admit to some hesitation. It seems the FBI broke the case. And as we all know from the FBI Fednapping case in Michigan, the FBI can not be trusted to “find” a terror attack during an election season. If you remember, that time it was the FBI who recruited a bunch of gullible village idiots to kidnap governor Whitmer. The FBI found, recruited, funded, trained, and transported the village idiots to the place to be arrested in front of the cameras so the FBI could claim that evil Right Wing Nationalists were committing political violence in an election season. And the facts were so obvious that juries have refused to convict the village idiots when they were brought to trial over it.

Is it possible they did the same thing again? That this case will be the FBI Feddroning case in the future? That everyone will know in the future that the FBI found, recruited, funded, trained, and transported some villages idiots to be arrested in front of the cameras so the FBI could claim that evil Illegal Aliens were committing political violence in an election season? Absolutely. That would be a wild story, but based on observable, known, historical facts, I could see it.

But we should all keep our heads on a swivel over the next weeks. This is America’s 250th birthday. What story would be greater for a hater of America than a terror attack that kills hundreds of Americans on or about the Fourth of July Two Hundred and Fifty? And as we celebrate that same birthday, we have to watch for those who want to go do down in history as the Fourth of July Terrorists.

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A Quarter Million

by on June 18, 2026 at 12:01 am
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For those who haven’t been paying attention to Britain, a report just came out detailing what happened to a quarter million pre-teen English girls over the last decades. A quarter million young girls in a population of 70 million. Groomed by older men allowed to pick the girls up from primary school by the authorities. Allowed to take them home and rape them. Allowed to bring them to all their friends all over the country to rape them. This would go on for years, from as early as younger than 10 on up to whenever the rape gangs no longer had use for them. When the girls escaped, the authorities pressured them not to report it. Sometimes the authorities took the girls back to the rapists and told the rapists to have a good time.

From other testimonies I’ve watched, at least one father detailed how he was arrested for trying to break his daughter out of a rape gang and the police left her there to keep getting raped. I don’t know if that is in the report or not, but the report is making the waves right now.

The government, both country and local level, allowed this to go on for decades according to the report. The girls were largely lower-class girls that nobody cared about. And the government didn’t want to be thought of racist for targeting the rape gangs who were largely from one set of countries and one religion. It seems the government considered the systematic rape and torture of a quarter million pre-teen girls to be a small price to pay to not be considered racist.

This is why the people of Great Britain are pissed off. I don’t know what they are going to do. I don’t know what they CAN do. I only say this. I wish them luck. And I wish justice on those who victimized them.

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Final Edits

by on June 17, 2026 at 12:01 am
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I just received a final look at Sand and Storm before it goes out for publication. Found three small tweaks that I hope will make it into the final publication. Holdovers of removing one entire character from the story to make it tighter. Proof that you can only really show off so many characters in a short story before they start to hamper the short story. Every word must be tight and used, and anything that detracts must go, no matter how much you love it. The story is the thing.

What all this means is that Sand and Storm is one step closer to getting into your hands. And then House of Sand will be in the wild. I love watching a new baby story go out like that.

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Victory

by on June 16, 2026 at 12:01 am
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America was a small power with regional goals in 1812. We wanted to live. Britain wanted to smack us back and tell us what to do. Maybe return us the fold. We fought back. They smashed us flat. Burned our capital to the ground. We managed a victory at the Battle of New Orleans, and ran with that for centuries. It was the bright spot of the War of 1812. The point where we stuck it to the man and survived. And that was victory for us. Survival. For the British, they had much larger concerns than us. The Russians. The French. The Spanish. The Ottomans. The Austro-Hungarians. There were great empires on the rise and on the fall, and the British wanted to bring their regiments home to deal with Napoleon.

American is a great power with global goals in 2026. We want to keep peace and Western Civilization alive. Iran wants to stuff it to the man. They want to stick it to both the Great Satan and the Little Satan, and they want to drive out everybody who does not believe as they do with a wave of terrorism that has already killed tens of thousands of people. But America has concerns. The Russians. The Chinese. They could kill millions if not held at arm’s length. We can’t afford to keep our fleets centered on a regional power that can’t reach us right now when enemies that can are trying to hurt us. So victory for us is getting back home with a still functional global economy. And victory for the religious zealots who conquered Iran is survival.

Victory comes in many forms. And there can be more than one victor in war. And more than one loser as well. And history likes to repeat itself.

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Future Stories

by on June 15, 2026 at 12:01 am
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I’ve got two more parts of The Rebirth written. That Transformers fan fiction has already been published through the Teletran fan magazine, and I intend to publish the various parts on my substack. A total of 8 stories have accepted for publication so far this year, and 4 have already been published.

Beyond that, I have 11 more anthologies I plan to submit to throughout the year. That means I need to write and polish for submission two stories a month for the rest of the year if I want to hit that goal. Some will probably slip by, but my goal is 26 submissions this year. I had 29 submissions last year, so this is down from last year’s output. But I do have a new job, so I’m willing to go with that. It just means I have to be more careful about what I choose to write. Though that is still up from 13 and 2 from the years before. And of course I only had four stories accepted last year, and I’m already at 8 this year, so quantity is not always best. That said, multiple acceptance letters THIS year from stories I wrote for anthologies LAST year, so sometimes quantity IS best. 😉

Right now I have a plan for a giant kaiju story, a unicorn story, another set of Transformers stories, a duel of honor set in New Japan, looking for inspiration for a mystical cold war story, a couple other deep ocean stories that have me interested in ways I didn’t expect, a story about fantastical sports (I’m going back and forth between science fiction and mystical for that one) and a story about dragons. Also considering sci-fi for that one.

I have many ideas in the pan, but right now I need to hit the Transformers, Unicorn, and Mystical Cold War stories first. Get them out of the way one at a time and punch them out. I’ve got plans. Now I just have to put them to paper. Well… electrons at least.

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