Clueless - Prolog
“Oh no, Jack! We’re out of salad dressings! And Susan and Ken, and Doris and Davey will be here soon!”
“Better check the grill propane tank, too, I guess,” Jack replied to his wife, Alicia. “I haven’t filled it since the last party we had.”
“That would be so embarrassing...
Let Bygones Be Bygones
William Robert Bowman looked at the check in his hand. “Well, nuts!” he said softly. Despite it being double his normal monthly check, he wasn’t pleased. Why? Because it was his last check. At least from this company. He’d worked for them for fifteen years. Took a...
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Pole Shift - Chapter 1
“Hi Woodie,” called Denton as he entered the café section of the large service station, convenience store and café business owned and operated by his friend.
“I got the message that you wanted to see me when I came down from the mine. What can I do for you?”...
Indecision
“I don’t know, Kell.” Ritchie Stang said. “I know things are getting kind of… I don’t know… interesting…”
“Interesting?” asked Kell Reed, Ritchie’s best friend when they went to the same middle school and junior high school. Kell’s family had moved during their Freshman year and...
EOC – A Vignette - Prolog
Bruce Klepper sighed and hung up the white hard hat on the coat rack beside the door. It was going to be a long day. But a good one. Bruce flipped the light switch in the darkness of the windowless room. The LED lighting fixtures didn’t quite turn night into day, but...
Rainbow Currency Rebellion
Tristian Cathay wasn’t overwhelmingly rich. But he was very well off. And he intended to continue to be so, despite what might come. He’d scrimped and saved, done without, and suffered more than a few hardships to get where he was.
He was careful to keep his assets...
When The Sun Shines Bright - Prolog
“Grandma, when will Mommy and Daddy be home? I miss them so much.”
“Oh, Sweetheart! Soon. Very soon, I’m sure.” Maralin Scopes hoped she wasn’t lying to her only granddaughter. She was having the same feelings. Maralin was trying to hide them from Marla...
True Terror - Chapter 1
Watson Drake’s eyes were closed tightly as he tried to control the pain invading his body. The man that had tried to slit Watson’s throat was standing there, talking to another of the hijackers. It was obvious that they thought Watson was dead. They would not be...
Cosmic Buckshot - Chapter 1
Don Hastings started the big bike and grinned when it rumbled into life. Unlike most, the powerful engine sported a pair of super quiet mufflers that did nothing to degrade performance of the engine, but kept it almost as quiet as your normal car.
Working through...
Helen’s Place – A Vignette
Wendy literally jumped up and down and clapped her hands. The news was terrific. BP had capped the well and shut off the flow of oil in the Gulf of Mexico. She turned to her best friend in the entire world, Helen Kingston and said, “See! I told you they would do it...
Rolly - Chapter 1
Rolly Jomes hated flying. Couldn’t take hardly anything that would be useful in an emergency. Like the plane going down. Or for use when he got where he was going, temporarily. Never know when something might happen, that was for sure. Just watch the news. There were enough...
Syndemic Pandemic - Chapter 1
Ron Jackson slipped the three plastic tubes of silver coins into his pocket. The coin shop clerk had an uninterested look on his face. This was the fifth time in as many months that Ron had been in the shop to buy pre-1965 US silver dimes, quarters, and halves...
What If? - Chapter 1
Bethany waited anxiously at the GMC dealership. Her new vehicle was scheduled to be delivered any minute. It was one of the last ones off the assembly line, before production was ended. It had taken three months of searching to find it, and she had almost given up hope...
Triple A-7 – A Vignette - Prolog
Albright Artemis Abernathy the Seventh. That’s right Triple A-7. Probably heard the name before. Family is famous. Originally for their wealth. More recently for the loss of that wealth. This Albright, the Seventh, was born into the lap of luxury. But that lap...
Family Emergency Excursion
Andy Buchannan loved his blades. He had a multitude of them. And he knew how to use them. In fact, he trained others how to use them. Not your normal fencing, though there was a touch of that in the instruction. Actually, he had developed his own techniques...
Operation Blue Dragon - Prolog
David Birney hefted the two heavy cans of ammunition, lifting them carefully from the back of the GMC Sonoma High Rider pickup truck. He didn’t want to throw his back out, so he was careful to shift his feet rather than turn at the waist to move the cans over the...
Only Fourteen
Joshua Livingsdale was only fourteen. He was tired of hearing it. Things would be so much better when he turned fifteen. And eventually eighteen. That’s when he would join one of the military services. Probably the Army. US Army Combat Engineers, to be precise. His grandfather...
Gettin’ Hot
Larry wiped his forehead with a bandanna and then retied it around his neck. “Gettin’ hot,” he said, rather needlessly.
The three men working with him didn’t say anything. They just grunted in response and guided the heavy electrical transformer into position on the threaded...
Rufus - Super Suburban PAWV - Chapter 1
“Let’s see. How to explain this? Just come right out and say it, I guess. I’m a vehicle, you see. A special kind of vehicle. A PAWV. That’s Post Apocalyptic World Vehicle. There is a little bit of BOV in me. That’s Bug Out Vehicle for those that don’t...