For those of you who know me, I tend to overthink things. (For those of you who don’t know me- trust me on this, I overthink things.) The only reason “A Year Among Stars” saw the light of day was because it had been several years since I’d challenged myself to write a story in […]
Read More An adventure in accidental publishingWow. This year has really vanished . Things have been interesting lately. I’ve been working on multiple projects – First, there was the Christmas Anthology that was– then there was the Anthology that wasn’t. Communications kinda fell apart and I was writing and working but I got forgotten. Yeah- that happens. So, I ended up […]
Read More A Year Among The Stars – UpdateFebruary 9th, 2552 Trio of Terrors Shuttle pilot/Lab Rat/mechanic in training – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting You’d think with how busy we are and how much work we have to do in order to survive long enough to do our mission— people would be focused on that. Well, most reasonable, well-balanced people were focused on […]
Read More 40-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsYet A(nother) Year In Seattle Sunday, July 4, 2066 – Playing for Pyros. They say you should leave the fireworks to the trained professionals. Unfortunately somewhere along the lines, the professionals forgot to respect their pyrotechnics. You work with anything long enough you forget things, like the fact that fireworks are controlled explosives, keyword here […]
Read More Yet A(nother) Year in Seattle – Week 28 – Normal is Highly OverratedYet A(nother) Year In Seattle Sunday June 27, 2066 – Not a good idea Whenever a law enforcement officer discharges his weapon in some place other than the range, he has to file a use of force report. Whenever a mage or shaman summons spirits in an offensive manner, and it is publicly observed and […]
Read More Yet A(nother) Year in Seattle – Week 27 – Use of ForceSunday June 13, 2066 – Strength in numbers Most of yesterday was spent tracking down members of our extended family. Turns out that not only did our apartment serve as temporary housing for medics and members of law enforcement, so did the condo, the Ork Underground, Citywide’s main office as well as the majority of […]
Read More Yet A(nother) Year in Seattle – Week 25 – A Strong RecoveryYet A(nother) Year In Seattle Sunday, June 6, 2066 – Filters Day three of Martial Law and the Martial may be becoming part of the problem. I’ve had seven complaints from motor medics of being stopped en-route and detained for questioning because everyone knows only gang members ride motorcycles. This seems to be especially true […]
Read More Yet A(nother) Year in Seattle – Week 24 – Rule of Law, or Arms, or NumbersYet A(nother) Year In Seattle Sunday, May 30, 2066 – The story of my life – without subtitles Sometimes it feels like my life is like a foreign movie where I don’t speak the language. Things just feel surreal and I’m constantly trying to make sense out of what’s going on. Other times it makes […]
Read More Yet A(nother) Year in Seattle – Week 23 – Playing the PercentagesYet A(nother) Year In Seattle Sunday, May 23, 2066 – Council Island Stand-off We had an interesting guest for dinner today. It seems that Nathan made an… interesting… impression on Lone Star’s Magical Forensics team, or more to the point one Tabitha McAndles. Now, the interesting thing is Tabitha is almost as magical as I […]
Read More Yet A(nother) Year in Seattle – Week 22 – Getting to know the playersYet A(nother) Year In Seattle Sunday, April 11, 2066 – Observation for Easter Have you ever looked at something and you knew it was out of kilter but you couldn’t put your finger on it. And every time you looked at it, you were struck by how wrong it was but your brain just couldn’t […]
Read More Yet A(nother) Year in Seattle – Week 16 – Detour