Dr Jackson has been unavailable for consultation this month. He was due to go on holiday, and was about to arrange a replacement ‘Consultant’ for this very popular ‘Problem Page’ but he has been transferred at short notice to the McMurdo Sound base to help with the research into lice infestations in bumble bees. Commander Straker simply grunted when the Herald editors requested further details. However, Colonel Freeman did give…
His Last Desire
Dr. Jackson’s gaze rested on her calm face. He studied each detail of her flawless beauty, the long purple lashes over her now shut eyes, the rolling line of her tiny nose and the peach-like skin which complemented with perfection her rose-coloured lips. Divine. He reached out to gently stroke over her folded hands. “My love. Everything’s going to be alright,” he murmured, letting her hands go and turned to…
Triumph: Time Paradox 2
The room was quiet. Ed Straker lay on the bed stretched and relaxed, then opened his eyes and froze. This was not his room. Yet there was the touch of familiarity to the place. Touches of memory flashed through his mind too fast to really comprehend. He got up, let his body go through the familiar motions of arising and got a shock as he looked in the mirror. He…
A Conversation Piece II – dragon
dragon “The problem with meeting at Maxim’s in Paris is that I have no idea what Maxim’s looks like and it gets very turn of the century when I try to imagine it.” (sigh) “Don’t snort. It’s … “ Straker “Unladylike?” dragon (snort) “Very.” (giggle) Straker “Hmm. That probably explains a lt.” (looking around at the chandeliers, white table clothes and attentive, well dressed waiters) “The period suits you.” dragon…
dragon’s challenge – herself
WARNING: major character death! MIT Jack Harkness lounged at the back of the lecture room while the man he observed tried not to tear out his silken pale hair. Lt. Ed Straker scowled at the blackboard, which was actually a deep green, and erased about a page of arcane mathematical hieroglyphs to start his calculations over again from the point where they kept going wrong, as far as he could…
Visitation Rights
She looked up when a shadow moved through her peripheral vision. No business being there, the sightdogs all accounted for, no one else in the house. No one. Figment of her imagination that was. With a sigh she bent to her task again. It was hot, and humid, one of those summer days she did not much like. “What do you listen to there?” She was startled and her mood…
Novices
The letter waiting on her bed looked crumpled and grubby, yellowed with age. She switched on the bedside lamp, shrugged out of the heavy habit and hung it in the wardrobe. Clad only in her shift, she sat down with a sigh of relief, ruffled her short hair, then picked up the envelope and held it under the meagre light. Not a handwriting she was familiar with. Scrawled, immature letters…
Moonlight (Breathless I)
Prologue November 2010 Moonlight in Moscow. So typical. The band, slightly out of tune, more than slightly drunk, and not caring in the slightest one way or another, thrashed out the ubiquitous melody, more for the sake of attracting any stray foreign tourist than any real love of the melody. The hotel he was staying in was too busy, too prominent for a meeting such as this. Any suspicious activity,…
Abandoned
The book was dog-eared and somewhat tatty round the edges, its fine leather cover battered and creased from having been stuffed into small cases. The dark material gave no clues to the secrets that might be contained within its pages. Unlined sheets of creamy paper, the odd one turned over at the corner. Just a book; unremarkable, unexceptional. And unnoticed. Until now. In silence the pages were turned. In silence…
Ed Straker Reads Your Stars
Oh sod it. Make your own star signs this month. I am taking a well-earned break. You require a 6 sided die. Take one section at a time, roll the die to create your own astrological chart for September. A1. 1. Mercury has moved into ascension with Venus in retrograde thus ensuring ……… 2. Venus is moving into conjunction with Mars resulting in ……. 3. Jupiter’s influence on the tidal…