Conversation

1st February 2012

Conversation: The back-and-forth play of the blades in a fencing match, composed of phrases punctuated by gaps of no blade action. This is an experiment in sub-text and much is going to happen in it. But I think these two will meet again. Fairly soon. By Lightcudder ©June 2011 The private jet. The private terminal. The trappings of success. Those inconsequential and outward symbols that are so important to the…

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Shades (Circles – Part 1.5)

1st February 2012

TAGS: slash, gay romance, erotica WARNINGS: contains explicit homoerotic sex scenes   Freeman thumbed through the report without any real interest. Routine stuff. Just another fuelling schedule and maintenance survey. Boring but necessary for the day to day running of SHADO though they were, Freeman had too much on his mind to give them any more than a cursory examination. They were usually Straker’s job. His analytical mind soaked up…

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Furlough

1st February 2012

Dear Dr Jackson. I am not sure how to how to say this, but I think that our esteemed leader is showing signs of stress. Perhaps it is time that he was sent on an enforced vacation. And then the rest of us can apply for leave and get it? (And maybe some of us could come back from exile? It’s cold here in McMurdo.) Yours Alec A concerned staff…

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The Virginia Monologues

1st February 2012

Once Every Four Years (Historian’s Note: In the British Isles it is a tradition in some places that a woman may propose to a man on Feb 29th)   Her: It only happens once every four years. Tomorrow is my chance. Leap Year, and of course I am English through and through. We have our traditions, our heritage, our customs. I have been planning it for weeks now. What I…

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Ed Straker Reads Your Stars

1st February 2012

Following the slight confusion over the Star Signs for December I have asked one of our most reliable and long-standing operatives to write for the month of February. Lt Keith Ford is well known to all as our senior Communications Officer and as such I am sure that he will be able to provide excellent advice to all you keen astrologers out there! This is a Maximum Astrology Alert. I…

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