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The Mine Author’s Note: Thanks to NV Cowboy for the use of his story “The Mime” which has been incorporated into this story. Chapter 1 Kenneth Heinz IV was a 4th generation scion of the Heinz family fortune, a distant cousin of Teresa Heinz, the Billionairess wife of Senator Kerry. ...

I'm finding the concept harder to deal with then I thought. I will be working on it and re-start it in the fall. In a few days, I will have another story up about science gone amok. But not in the way you would think. So, stay tune to this bat channel.;)

ACX, the company I use to produce audiobook versions of my novels has just done something new. They have sent me a set of free download codes for promotional use! You guys (and gals) have been great, so I am offering the lion's share of them to my TB2K friends. I have 15 codes, so if you want a...

ok guys, i'm looking for some help finding a story. actually it's a series of three stories. it starts out with a fellow somewhere down south as a contractor when an illness runs rampant throughout the world. he goes to find his family and winds up getting held up in a small town. in the end...

Some of you will remember part of this from fs. Maybe with you all poking at me I'll get it finished. My Beloved My Dearest Beloved, I write this not knowing when I will be able to mail it to you. No doubt mail there has stopped just as everything here has. I was at the jobsite when...

I've been turning this story over for years. I tend to overdo Exposition—But this story about a crazy mad scientist type who makes Small Worlds (State-Sized) to order seems to demand Beaucoup Exposition. But for the last few weeks I've been obsessed with writing, pruning, re—writind ad...

. - The Cargoman's Tale - A bee crawled in aimless circles around my window glass, deceived by the light it saw as freedom - the light that kept it trapped. I moved slowly, quietly, trying to get it cupped and out the door before my mother saw it. My hands hovered over it, the way I had...

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Friends, I can generally write 2000–3000 words in a good day's writing. About one day out of five, I end up deleting what I have written that day, at the end of the day and I don't get much access to the computer on Weekends. Thats 8000 to maybe 12 500 words a week. The top three or...

Friends, My sister just published her first book, "Musings of a Spinster" by Connie M Martin. Its Christian oriented editorials on her bout with cancer, growing old, growing understanding and faith in God. If that sounds interesting to anyone—or maybe your wife, mother, girlfriend or...

While I struggle thru the rest of chap. 4, I would like to share with you this never published, (not for lack of trying), classic from a writer called P. I. Volkens. If you took the Denver Post back in the late 70's and early 80's, you knew Phyllis I. Volkens. Her byline appeared in the paper...

I first encountered this clever story on a Newsletter at Purdue in 1976. Found it on an Archive from the old pre-internet "Bulletin Board" Days. Enjoy: :eleph: TWAS THE NOCTURNAL SEGMENT OF THE DIURNAL PERIOD Twas the nocturnal segment of the diurnal period preceding the annual

Of Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs. By Stephen Moore This is a work of fiction presented from a first person point of view for literary effect only and should not be construed to be an autobiographical story. The author simply wishes to present a story which will engage the reader in a way...

Amazing what comes to you in the form of dreams brought on from a bit of bad pork. This story will likely be shorter than most as it is moving quite fast. If you like it I'll finish it, if not ... well, my imaginings have to go someplace or they crowd up my head too much. LOL! FEL BY THE...

Hey all, I promised everyone that I would let them know when Surviving With Joe was published. It is, finally, and thanks in large part to my editor. (Yes, I broke down and hired an editor.) However. TODAY (10/28/2013), until midnight in Washington State (where A-zon is), Surviving With Joe is...

This is a short story that I wrote some time ago, with the thought of maybe picking it up again someday. Found to my surprise that I hadn't posted it everywhere... Vision Chapter One

Just feel the need to say a huge THANK YOU to all our authors! You are giving us many hours of entertainment, pleasure and valuable information. Its so much that I can't keep up with all the wonderful stories anymore, although I'm trying. ;) That is NOT a complaint! Keep them coming, but know...

Ronny, with her eyes wide..her mouth a round "O" shape..broke into a laugh at her own surprise. "What was that..?", she asked, clasping her hands over her mouth and giggling like she had just heard whispered gossip about someone she hated. I stared at her, amazed at her excitement in the face...

I got the bullets, you grab the beans (or Its the big one Lena!) From the journal of Mr. Jack Dalton, and transcripts of the trial of Mrs. Lena Dalton, FEMA District Court 2, Western Enclave Journal Entry 1 Day 1 I awoke to the sound of the EMS radio going off, jolting me from my sleep. I...

Would anyone who read and enjoyed "Parallel" please go to Amazon/Kindle. Go to Science-Fiction/Adventure...Enter "Parallel"—there are two, mine is the one by Robert V Martin... And please give me a good review? Thanks. .....RVM45 :cool::sht::cool:

I get up at five a.m. it is o' dark thirty. Get my act together, lunch packed. Work bag full and in the rig. Head up the mountain to go to work. Sun is peeking over the mountains and I notice.....

We do not knowingly buy food items from NON-English speaking countries. We buy from English speaking countries or western Europe or Japan. Due to food safety laws and cultural understanding of hygiene. In 1991 I visited Hong Kong on business and learned how shrimp paste was made. One...

I wanted to try a different style of writing. The story still has a few bits of survival information tucked in it. Just call me “Louis La Bear”. As he picked up his meager belongings off the table and signed for them, Johnny felt none of the emotions he had expected, as he had waited for...

Dude Damn politicians anyway! When you are immortal, or nearly so in human terms, you have to find something worth living for. If you don’t then life soon becomes demonic and oppressive and claustrophobic.

A tiny sample of one of several stories that I'm juggling... Owl Chapter One

I know, I have a couple or three other irons in the fire. I haven't deserted them, but neither am I particularly feeling them at the moment. This introduces a Country built in a Mountainous Wilderness... Part what the Cherokee and Scots-Irish might have made out of Southern Appalachia...

This is a repost of an idea which grew in responding to one of the stories and I think it may be a worthy effort. One of our regular posters on the Main has made the comment when one of our members passes that a Library has closed. That really brought home a realization of the value that each...

I'm trying to write something "Serious"... That means: "Something that might have a chance of breaking into Print and making me some Cutter..." Yes, bother a bunch of Vanity and "E" Book Publishers. Fine for some...

Beneath a line of mercury lights, a black sedan crawled along with the rest of the turnpike traffic, its polished surface reflecting the wet asphalt like some moving urban mirage. Rain dotted and streaked its darkened windows, hiding all but the faintest silhouette of the middle-aged man behind the...

I have been working on writing this new story. Should I continue or is it really to dull, what do you think should happen?

I found this recently and thought others might like it. It's a short story written and posted by HalfFast (author of Lights Out) in 2005. It's about a hasty bugout by a suburban family and the challenges they faced trying to get to family at a rural farm. The complete short story is...

CIRCUS MEMORIES-not the normal go see the elephants I got an email from a friend who told some tales of their life with the cIrcus leading me on a trip down Memory Lane. When I was very young, I had a special love for the circus - that was in the day of the Big Top. One of my mother's high...

Authors Note- I began this story awhile ago and have over 80 chapters which i will post here over the next few weeks. alangator At The Podium Joe Quick Part1

this is something I started the other night. It will be a short story more then likely. However I thought you might like it. The Burning Days: This story is copyrighted and owned solely by the me. I may post it to websites so people can offer feedback but I hold all rights. Seth walked...

Here are a couple of eductional funnies given to me by my master teacher when I was earning my teaching credential. I thought some here would like a bit of old school humor. Golden Grammar Tips 1) Remember to never split an infinitive. 2) A preposition is something to never end a sentence...

I was really getting into it and lost it. Does anyone remember the story of the truck driver who stopped at a Walmart on the way home to pick up a few things. He had stopped in Hampton GA. Anybody? Thanks!

Does anybody know of some good PAW or Prepping stories I can pass on to my Grand kids, Kmtngoat