Rini-chan looked at the tiny flash drive in her hand. Then she looked at the USB port someone had installed in the back of one of Ford’s computers. She read the instructions in her other hand, stuck the drive in the port and pushed the tiny jeweled button on the end that wasn’t connected. The entire thing lit up as it did whatever it was programmed to do. “Mom, if…
Time: Somewhere around 1985 and 2302. Place: England He remembered running. Something was behind him, chasing him. He remembered cussing mentally because somewhere in his headlong run, he’d lost his gun. Gun. Why would he carry a gun? Why would he be upset that he had lost one? He lay there in the crisp white room, between crisp white sheets and listened to the beep, beep, beep of the…
Ed reached into his stubborn adherence to who and what he was, fighting the insidious voice in his head. Yes, he would love to have a weapon to use against the aliens, something to chase them away and make them never come back again. But what he saw in this monster’s eyes, in Virginia’s; no. This was not the way, to become more of a monster than he already was….
WARNINGS: slight sexual innuendos, some violence 16:30 The drive to the docks took longer than expected. Traffic was heavy as they went through town to arrive at the correct area. The SHADO mobile unit was equipped to go overland and was slow by comparison on the road. Davidson, one of Ford’s people, greeted Straker as he joined the mobile crew. “We’re still not triangulated. Ferrales is working on it. Ford’s…
23:56 pm Ford poked his head into Straker’s office looking worried. Not all that unusual. “Yes?” Ed responded quickly. “Security, sir. Col. Freeman left the premises over an hour ago. His car’s in the lot still, along with his gun sitting on the bonnet.” Galvanized Ed was on the phone to security for a full report. Within minutes he was at the scene and was as baffled as his security…
For several days, Alec Freeman had felt eyes on him; someone watching him until he could have jumped out of his skin at being addressed by a friend. The feeling preyed on his usually steel nerves. Even his boss, Ed Straker, had noticed there was something amiss. “Alec, you’re jumpy.” Ed eyed him curiously. He let out a brief laugh, rubbing the back of his neck nervously. “Yeah. I’ve felt…
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“The lower pasture is flooded.” The voice was unfamiliar. Ed Straker looked up to see … he blinked. In an uncharacteristic gesture he rubbed his eyes and wondered when the last time he’d slept was. The … being … was still there, hovering about two inches off his desk top, surrounded by monumental, for it, gossamer wings. ‘I’ve finally cracked,’ he thought, nodding to the incensed small entity. She lowered…
By: dragon (author) “So help me, if she wants that retyped again, I’m going to quit. I don’t care if it’s one of the best paid secretarial jobs in town,” Megan Gill grumped as she headed to Miss Ealand’s office from her place in the typing pool. “Fourteen retypes of six pages because the actor doesn’t ‘feel’ the words as the author gave them to him. Idiot.” She quickly composed…