by Connect | Jan 2, 2020 | Wish Me Luck
Wish Me Luck My red-headed blue-eyedWill's point of view. . . Bit of Luck “What changed your mind about Molly?” I asked Ramona as we worked together, stocking the cabinets of my little straw bale house with canned goods. She smiled as she carefully...
by Connect | Jan 2, 2020 | Wish Me Luck
Wish Me Luck Note From the Author All of the characters in this story are fictional, although there is a little bit of me in each one of them. Like Molly, I often find myself needing to “let go.” Like Will, I have to remind myself to live with love instead...
by Connect | Jan 2, 2020 | Wish Me Luck
Wish Me Luck About the GMO Issue I am not a geneticist, but I have been used as a lab rat from time to time. That is, until I realized what was going on. I escaped and now I'm spreading the news - you are being used as a lab rat too. The following research is...
by Connect | Jan 3, 2020 | Bell of the Ancients
The Bell of the Ancients Eden Lost My brother had been piloting combat aircraft remotely since he was barely old enough to read. When the recruiters showed up at our house to solicit him with a fast track to Captaincy, they couldn’t believe my twelve year old...
by Connect | Jan 3, 2020 | Bell of the Ancients
The Bell of the Ancients Portal to Another World Our ship had been damaged in the backdraft of Earth’s burn. The E-fleet Base had taken a direct hit from a ground-based Direct Energy Weapon before we reached it and there was nothing left but debris, some of which hit...
by Connect | Jan 3, 2020 | Bell of the Ancients
The Bell of the Ancients Leaving it All Behind We had two days left to get ready and one day to make the trip to the moon. Five fighter ships went to Mars and the three to Saturn. All of us had the same mission: to reach our destination, ascertain if that planet could...
by Connect | Jan 3, 2020 | Bell of the Ancients
The Bell of the Ancients A Terrifying Solution A quick orbit of the moon revealed nothing but dust, craters and abandoned ruins of space stations. It appeared as if the war had reached the moon and moved on many years ago. I brought up a scan of the portal map on my...
by Connect | Jan 3, 2020 | Bell of the Ancients
The Bell of the Ancients Gods of Nedan It was necessary for Leon and I to go to different quarters, but now that I was resigned to the fact we couldn’t leave immediately, my focus was on how best to survive our current circumstances. We needed to appear...
by Connect | Jan 3, 2020 | Bell of the Ancients
The Bell of the Ancients Fate of Rebels The room was beautiful in a bare-stone sort of way, but I hardly noticed it at first. My mind was racing over the possibilities and implications of Ryonel’s story. I didn’t want to stay cooped up while the guys were...
by Connect | Jan 3, 2020 | Bell of the Ancients
The Bell of the Ancients Marchempor of Alomine My situation had just become a lot more complicated. Not only did I have to cover for Leon and Ryonel, I also had to hide and care for two kids until we could make our getaway. And then where would we go? Hopefully Ryonel...
