A(nother) Year In Seattle Sunday – February 22, 2060 – Ghost Games and the haunted It started out innocently enough. The trainees were to participate in a war-games exercise in the woods. Using what they’d learned. I helped them gather their stuff– taught them a few of the survival medic tricks I knew– and they […]
Read More A(nother) Year in Seattle – Week 35 – Full CircleA(nother) Year In Seattle Sunday – February 15, 2060 – Crossings The train kept grinding through the night with the rhythmic clatter of the wheels on the tracks. I wonder how many countless millions of people that sound has lulled to sleep… sometimes I wonder if I’ll ever sleep again. I pushed so hard to […]
Read More A(nother) Year in Seattle – Week 34 – The Long RoadA(nother) Year In Seattle Sunday – February 8, 2060 – Below the surface And once again things go back to resembling normal… we go to church– we socialize afterwards, we pretend that things are fine and that it’s just another day when in reality a battle is simmering just beneath the streets. Sometimes I want […]
Read More A(nother) Year in Seattle – Week 33 – One Step Ahead and Two BehindA(nother) Year In Seattle Sunday – February 1, 2060 – Field Trip After church Case took Bri to the Aquarium– it’s still a little too crowded and enclosed for me to deal with… so of course… I did the sensible thing and came here. Here being the underground– sometimes I worry about me. It’s just…I […]
Read More A(nother) Year in Seattle – Week 32 – Maintaining an Even StrainA(nother) Year In Seattle Sunday – January 25, 2060 – Rebirth of hope. I had a hard time sleeping last night. I was haunted by the… lack of life in the people’s eyes– or the anger. I don’t know which is harder to deal with– but I know they’re both the faces of survival… You […]
Read More A(nother) Year in Seattle – Week 31 – The Return Home Part IIA(nother) Year In Seattle Sunday – January 18, 2060 – Dwelling on the past A collection was taken up at church today. The money collected is to go to aid those victims of the shutdown– People who are now homeless, the survivors and the dispossessed. I know that people are doing what they can– and […]
Read More A(nother) Year in Seattle – Week 30 – The Return HomeA(nother) Year In Seattle Sunday – January 11, 2060 – Prayers and offerings I wasn’t really in the mood for dealing with outsiders– and leaving the island was one of the hardest things I’ve had to do– but I have to take my life back and this is the first step. Step? More like a […]
Read More A(nother) Year in Seattle – Week 29 – Working things outA(nother) Year In Seattle Sunday – January 4, 2060 – Give me just a little time Case took me down to the chapel today. I think he’s going to help me through this whether I want to or not. Lord knows, I didn’t want to go to mass. I didn’t want to be anywhere near […]
Read More A(nother) Year in Seattle – Week 28 – A new pathA(nother) Year In Seattle Sunday – December 28, 2059 – Too many Questions They want head counts, and specs and schematics… What part of “I was hiding in the walls” don’t they understand? They still won’t tell me what’s happening… they’re still just… I am not the enemy! Monday – December 29, 2059 – No […]
Read More A(nother) Year in Seattle – Week 27 – RecoveryThe situation being what it was, the entries for Jess were … terse (handwritten with translations). Another reason for the story to be told in the third person. Sunday – December 21, 2059 – Winter Solstice They almost found me…I don’t know what to think… what to do. I can’t stay long but.. people need […]
Read More A(nother) Year in Seattle – Week 26 – Shut in