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Rescue Poem Now that I'm home, bathed, settled and fed, All nicely tucked in my warm new bed. I'd like to open my baggage ´fore I forget, There is so much to carry - So much to regret. Hmm . . . Yes there it is, right on the top Let's unpack Loneliness, Heartache and Loss,

,,,,Shadows of the Wind,,,, ,,, Upon the plains they roll,,, ,,,,, while curiosity overtakes my mind,,,, ,,,,,, and and the Creator leads me to my soul.

Not what it seems Life starts out a dream No work of your own Is this a hint of things to come Is this a lesson I kneed to know That time comes u learn all the rules U see it's a game and what can be had

EDEN LOST OUT OF THE GARDEN TO US EDEN IS LOST

2 new chapters posted for TEOTWAWKI II - Please read and reply! Fleataxi

So far so good. I wish that I had a hig school buddy with a Hobbit hole like Daniel Cox has. Perhaps I'll win the lottery and build one of my own. (Now to go learn all about machining tools...)

Dust: A Novel by Charles R. Pellegrino Mass Market Paperback: 450 pages Publisher: Avon; (March 1999) ISBN: 0380787423 Summary: An living nightmare is unleashed upon the Earth as the entire ecology is caught up in a chain-reaction catastrophe. Earth's best scientists desperately try to...

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Chapter 3 When things had settled down, Mike showed Dan an ingenious controller he had designed for the generator. It would start up the generator under 2 conditions: 1) If there was a load greater than 20 amps on the system, and the battery bank’s state of charge was below 70% or 2) if the...

Chapter 2 Mike was at the bank at 0745 the next morning. Sam was out front waiting for the armored car. When it arrived, Sam handed the driver a receipt for the gold and sliver, as well as a copy of the wire transfer statement. He asked the drivers to load the metal into Mike’s truck. They...

A dear friend of mine has a blog with tons of quite funny short stories if you're interested the link is here: ktraveldan

I am Grandpa for the second time. My eldest gave birth to a baby girl this morning at 10:34 EST. Brieanna Christine Metzger, weighing in at 6lb. 14oz. :D

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The young soldier received a direct command on what to do to the prisoner, yet he hesitated. There was something about the broken tortured man that made him feel that to inflict more pain just wasn’t right. He silently lamented that he had been deployed to the Middle East and that he had...

Feel free to describe your best ever orgasm here... The First Orgasm Deep in the lonely primordial oceans, around one and a half billion years BC, two of the first single-celled blobs known as eukaryotes obeyed the exhortations of nature and came together for a little intimacy, producing a...

I'm a peep. A yellow peep. You think I'm just a peep, but I'm not. I'm a magical, beautiful peep, so goegeous that I look ugly. I have brown eyes, I'm made out of fake marshmallows (people think it's real marshmallows). I'm really yellow, I'm small, cute, all of my friends have gotten eaten,...

I got my wife to buy the same colour car as mine so I would only need to buy 1 can of touch up paint.......:D

The Girl and the Ninja Ellen looked out of the kitchen window of her parent's house and stared into the drizzling Oregon rain. "At 23 I ought to be on my own, or even married," she thought with some despair. She sometimes wondered why she was "different.” The other young girls never seemed to...

Written before Y2-K did not happen, this short story was supposed to make people think about how easy it might be for some people to cross the "line" under stress, and how unprepared others might be for this. Birth of a Raider Three men, their faces showing several days growth of beard sat...

The Winds of Winter Life did not end in the urban areas after the collapse. Even with the mass exodus, urban dwellers still out numbered the rural folks. Some animals have sharp fangs, others large claws, still others the gift of flight, or great speed in running or swimming. Man has...

Will we ever find out what happens in South FL? Or at the ais station? Or to the old farts drafted into the spec ops team? Inquiring minds want to know. Those were some good stories gents. it would be a shame for them to fade away unfinished. Can you hook a brother up? On man, I'm jonseing bad....

another from huntersdada's dada........... The heat here in my present world is puzzling. I have become stagnant like the dark air around me. My parts are starting to emit a mix of strong odors. My fresh red seems sharp and pungent. This scent is mildly irritating, but in a pleasing...

I had contemplated on posting my novel here (as I compleye chapters). How ever, the finish (intended work) will be book-lenth. So it would be too long for the stated desired lenths. Oh well, there are other sites (I think) that will allow book-lenth stories - (GRIN) it ought to be an...

With apologies to the late,great,Johnny Cash. Probably an easy man to know. Hum this to anything that may fit. Not "I Walk the Line". I tried it and it dont fit. When Did I Become A 10 Foot Truck? Well I bought me a truck just the other day, Wasnt bran' new,but hey what...

Yeah, he's an LOTR fan, but his favorite poetry is Kipling - go figure. I love the 'strong women' theme. Granted - the other 3 members of his project group were young ladies - lol. I don't like this style - too ponderous for my liking but the assignment was to stay as close to the conventions of...

Harold's Winning Pitch (a child's story about the continued adventures of Harold and Martha, an elderly couple) By Maiden "Let's go, Harold," said Martha. "The big sale is beginning at the shopping mall. I want to get there early before everything is picked over." "Just like a woman," Harold...

I wrote most of this in a PM to a dear friend and member here and I felt it would make a good story. So, here it is ... Oh, she is/was a tiny flying squirrel ... It worked for a while. She was still in her nest box sleeping and would come out at night to eat and play. It stopped working a few...

"The most brilliant novel of our era" - Norman Mailer "I demand the movie rights!" - George Lucas "The best animated film work from an amazing novel we have ever done. " - Steve Jobs, CEO Pixar "Truely, a story for the ages" - Tom Clancy "A masterpiece!" - The New York Review

I'd like to know who all might be interested in your writing being published in a compilation of "Doomer Fiction". Thx

I'm posting my reviews of "The Rift" and "The New Madrid Run" as a single thread because they're kinda sorta related, and also because you might try to decide between the two of them as they both *look* like they're about similar things. They aren't, but that's not obvious until you read the books....

Stereochemistry: An Heuristically Systematized Polysyllabic Excursion Illustrating The Influence Of Greek And Latin On The Sciences by SmartAZ December, 1997 Louie Pasteur discovered something, studying grains of crystal. He saw left and right enantiomorphs, and Louie said "Now this'll

I was sitting on the bank fishing one cool morning. When I saw a tug on my line. I jumped to my feet, and grabbed my pole. My heart was pounding, and I stared at the line in the water. Looking at the end of the pole I saw no movement. The fish was gone, so I sat back down and waited. After a few...

Permission is granted to quote all or part yada yada ... Vegas by SmartAZ The year was 1989. I had a van, lots of money, and lots of time, so I was driving around the country doing things I had always wanted to try. One of those things was playing poker in Vegas. Mind you, I had not...

Permission is granted to reproduce this story in any form, in whole or in part, with or without the autho'r's name, which you don't know anyway ;=D You can send me some money if you think you should, but I won't be holding my breath. MOOSE TURD PIE by SmartAZ At one time, someone had to...

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Anybody still reading the chronciles of Tom... I may need to take part of tomorrow off. I woke up with the 'headache from hell' & it just won't quit. Feels like a serious "Been reading too much TB war related stuff" stress headache & I've been fighting the urge to heave all day. Sorry about...

I had walked my freind home. Watched as she slogged through the mud going up her driveway to her lighted and warm house. I made my way back to head to where I had parked my Jeep. The clouds hung low and ominous making it seem three hours later in the day than it was. Everything was wet but...