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The first object to enter the solar system did so without drama. No blazing trail. No ominous signal. It was simply there one morning in the data streams—an anomaly beyond Neptune, drifting inward on a slow, indifferent arc. The astronomers at Mauna Kea assumed it …

Year 2480, Wolf 359 Galaxy The object didn’t show up on any telescope first. It appeared in the traffic models. Commander Elias Rourke stood in the dim operations bay aboard the patrol cruiser Resolute, watching a web of projected vectors shimmer in the air. Trade …

Every few months, the astronomers at the Mauna Kea Observatories would lose the view of the sky. It began as a nuisance—an irregular dimming that swept across deep-field exposures, smearing out the view of stars and galaxies. At first, they blamed software, then dust, and …

Laura was led blindfolded down innumerable stairs deep into the earth. Two men stood at either side of her, gripping her arms to ensure she didn’t stumble. She had no idea how many other people were with her; the pattering of sandals on the stairs …

Michael and Cynthia Atkinson are successful attorneys who have worked at the law firm Maxwell and Peet in Boston, MA, for over twenty years. Michael is a corporate attorney specializing in contracts and torts, while Cynthia is a tax attorney. They met at an office …

The year was 1951, and the land of morning calm was anything but calm. Korea was bleeding. From the icy ridges of the Yalu River to the southern ports of Busan, the war carved through cities, mountains, villages, and fields. Soldiers fought and died, civilians …

ECHOES OF THE HEART Part 1 Chapter 1 –  Evie’s Return In May1919, six months after the end of the “Great War,” a horrific war that left over 20 million dead and 40 million casualties, Evie was finally returning to her home, Kingsley Manor, in …

Most of us have heard about Dante’s nine levels of Hell, but I have just found an even more perfidious tenth level, supermarket grocery shopping. Come on, grocery shopping? What is wrong with that? Most women probably do it almost every week, and they usually …

The topic for my writing group today was “What is the meaning of Life.” And although this topic is obviously important to most people, it is one I personally have never pondered, and that has not seemed important to me. Maybe that is why my …

The topic we were asked to write on today was cars, and for me, that is highly appropriate as I am a car guy. In the sixty-seven years I have been driving, I have owned thirty-one cars and trucks. So it wouldn’t surprise me a …