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June 28, 2017
The Proprietors
“It wasn’t enough for you to just visit Jackson Hole like all the other tourists, you had to listen to that vagrant and take us down some little back road and we end up here.” “You’ve got to admit Sheila, this is pretty unusual.” “I want to go back to town, Frank. This place is […]
June 26, 2017
The Sons of Mutineers
Daniel McCoy stood on the rocks and cast his line again into the Pacific. No matter how chaotic other parts of his life became, fishing was his refuge of peace. He knew they would be waiting for him when he got back home. He would go peacefully. After all, he deserved this. But he needed […]
June 25, 2017
The River Between Heaven and Hell (Part One)
The Seventeenth Story in the Adventures of the Ambrosial Dragon: A Children’s Fantasy Series “My name is Yao Jin and I need to speak to your grandson. It is an urgent manner.” The Chinese woman at the door spoke English formally, like someone who had learned it from a textbook, but her tone, facial expression, […]
Uninvited
“Do you see, Sky? I wasn’t kidding. They’re really there.” It had taken nine-year-old Gray almost half an hour to convince his twelve-year-old sister to follow him into the woods behind their campground. He knew she wouldn’t believe him unless she saw them for herself. Mom and Dad were busy setting up for the concert […]
June 24, 2017
What If Jesus Christ Became King of the World Two-Thousand Years Ago?
I’m having some frustrating connection problems today. I can get to Google sporadically, but I can’t open search results, nor can I get to Amazon. I’ve tried a Windows and Mac computer and multiple web browsers but it doesn’t make a lot of difference. I’ve rebooted my modem a few times and it seems to […]
June 23, 2017
Crossover: The Expanded Version
“The next leg of our vacation takes us on the ferry from Port Angeles to Victoria where we leave the U.S. for Canada.” “Honey,” Glenn’s wife complained. “You sound just like a tour bus driver.” In the backseat, eight-year-old Brittany groaned while her six-year-old brother Jackson rolled his eyes. They had been on the road […]
June 21, 2017
The Crossover
“The next leg of our vacation takes us on the ferry from Port Angeles to Victoria.” “Honey,” Glenn’s wife complained. “You sound like a tour bus driver.” Their two kids in the backseat groaned. “Just trying to brighten the mood while we wait to get onto the ferry.” Then the parents in the front realized […]
June 20, 2017
The Last Concert of the Kings of Long Beach
The Kings of Long Beach were back in their hometown playing where they’d first met twelve years ago, in the courtyard at the Hathaway Apartments. They started out as five high school students with a dream, but unlike most of their peers, they’d actually made it. The parking lot was packed as was the street […]
June 19, 2017
The Treasure of Forrest Fenn
Forrest Fenn died without anyone finding his treasure, or at least that’s what most everyone believes. I won’t tell you how I did it. I won’t tell you the secret of the poem he wrote which gave me the clues I needed to find millions in gold and jewels. The old son of a bitch […]
A Woman’s Wings
Only 3,062 more kilometers until she beat her own personal best and was once again mentioned in the record books. Amelia Earhart tried it on Earth in 1937, and her flight’s disappearance remains one of the great mysteries in aviation history. It was Jerrie Mock who succeeded in becoming the first woman to circumnavigate the […]
