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Sergeant Zella Greenlee of the Texas Rangers had placed a certain contemptible toady in prison around the time when the Aztec-Maoists were shattered. As an assistant to larger snakes, Sugarstar Hamilton had been part of maintaining and supplying safe houses. Today, in return for a short sentence...

The crew of the less-ambitious Indian space station had been briefed by their government's intelligence community that the Islamist forces in and around Uganda-- generally the crowd who had confronted Brendan Hyland and Josiah Redfern-- were at an impasse concerning the next move. Some wanted to...

AUTHOR'S NOTE: The spiritual experiences described in the previous post are not made up from nothing. Your author, Joseph Richard Ravitts of Colorado, alias "Copperfox," has been bereaved many times, and has experienced Heavenly consolation in ways very similar to what Summer and Alipang have...

CHAPTER ____ 149: ____ Not Only Memories "Alipang, I've come on behalf of all your Native friends. Along with them, Rangers of both types are picking up trails. It's nearly airtight certain that they won't be able to find air transport for a getaway. We will trace where the coyotes have gone...

Since I wrote Post #501, _despite_ a change of laptop, I _still_ can't make the traitor copy links >or< paragraphs. Therefore, I resort once again to identification. I urge T.D.L. members to check out a YouTube channel called Exits Examined. A video of theirs, titled "The Brutal History of...

"This reminds me of The Hiding Place," whispered Grace Rand; she knew the life story of Corrie ten-Boom. Michael, Anne-Marie, Grace and Grant, with little Peggy Havens, were huddling in a camouflaged cellar. Though Michael was eldest of the five, he still had not gotten past the intentional...

"Stan, long time no see! Did your engagement work out?" "No, Hester decided it just wasn't working, too few goals in common. Better to tell me early than to break off after we sent out invitations. The split was amicable, and fellow Rangers who betted the wedding wouldn't happen are collecting...

CHAPTER ___ 148: ___ To Everything A Season "Summer, Evan, Wilson, Esperanza, Brendan, Peggy, everybody, listen up! I've just completed writing a set of parody lyrics! It only occurred to me to try this after we revisited where Smoky Lake used to be." The feminist singer Tori Amos, whom...

Brendan Hyland already knew that Blake Matthews, the SEALS veteran who had saved Alipang and Kimberly from assassins, had been settled in Eldoret, Kenya, with much of his extended family, plus ex-hoodlum Larry Mannering also with relatives; but a surprise awaited. "I know that you'll remember...

C H A P T E R ____ 1 4 7 : ____ The Only Certainty Is Uncertainty Matti Siermaala's wife Zamoria had successfully given birth to their daughter Rauha. Their friends Josiah and Melody Redfern were delighted by the news, and remotely introduced their own whole family to Rauha at the first...

"There was one time, while making my rounds, that I arrived at one clinic where they had virtually NO dental- care supplies. But the folks there were superb do-what-you-can artists. They were using salt water as dental rinse, and lengths of fishing line as floss. I praised them to the skies...

Nora, Terrance and Harmony kept Summer company there on the Gaia's Gizzard property, while Evan convoyed his children to a town in South Dakota: a town east of where Bert Randall had first met Ma'at, Montu and Meretseger. A care-worn but still beautiful blonde woman met them at the...

"It's okay, Michael, they won't bite or kick," said Evan. "If they come up to you, they just want to smell you. They're not afraid of people, or angry at people. When they get their wool sheared off each spring, it's at a time when they're glad to get rid of their winter coats and feel the...

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = I just realized that I _haven't_ recently posted the sort of review I furnished at intervals while I was writing "First Love" years ago. Here, accordingly, I _shall_ provide some reminders...

"There is a very old saying about rules and systems," Evan told his hearers. "Funny thing about the situation in that saying: some who say it, like the thought, while others hate it. The saying is 'Whatever is not absolutely required, is absolutely forbidden.' All of you have lived under that...

"How is the air-cushion skirt holding up?" Prentice Kerang, Bert Randall's Native Australian friend, asked Captain Truman Farmer. Truman, commanding a brand-new ocean-capable hovercraft homeported in Seattle, didn't use a tribal name, but was verifiably descended from chiefs of the seafaring...

"Uncle Alipang told us you'd be able to estimate where his house used to be, by sighting on that point in the hills." Ransom Kramer, son of the gallant SEALS veteran who had been like an uncle to the children of Eric and Cecilia, had long regarded Alipang as having inherited Wilson's role as an...

Consider this post to be still within the major section "UPON THE NARROW PACIFIC," but here starting Chapter 145: PIRATES, JUST NOT OF THE CARIBBEAN. Assume that enough time elapses for Alipang to obtain transportation and rejoin Dominykas Bagdon on board the "Scavenger Queen." Manuel the...

Back in the western United States (and this reinstated country-name was gradually pushing "Diversity States" out of usage and memory), recycling worker Juanita Altamonte got together with Harmony Havens in the dayshift dormitory of "Gaia's Gizzard." The two friends having adequate privacy to...

"Did you ever hear of old-time routing books for ships?" "Hmmm, I think they're mentioned in James Clavell's historical fiction," Alipang replied. He and George Preston were standing night watch, as the ship cruised on a course to the north-by-northwest. (YES, I KNOW THERE'S A CLASSIC ALFRED...