by Chuck Mathias Vibrant reds and golds splash across the sky. Your paintbrush searches out the space between the billowing clouds to...

by Randi MacWilliams The young woman had dozed off once or twice before, on the transit ride home from the airport to her Westside...

by Jim DiMarco Wednesday, December 7, 1983. 74th Warhead Detachment, Schwabstädl Kaser “Item three. There will be a bus trip to Paris, ....

Friday, September 30, 1983. 74th Warhead Detachment, Schwabstädl Kaserne, Lechfeld Air Base, Bavaria, West Germany. I was eating lunch in...

Chapter 20 The effects of the near miss on Earth were relatively small, since most of the destruction happened over water. There were...

Thursday afternoon, July 7, 1983 Schwabstadl Kaserne, Lechfeld Air Base, Bavaria, West Germany The four of us were in our room, packing...

Father Benjamin Murphy latched his office door and shuffled over to his awaiting chair. Its soft, worn, leather seat invited his weary...

The house loomed through the cold March drizzle like a haunting pink confection with resplendent scrolls of butter cream frosting on the...

Chapter 14 Martin Scofield had been very busy the last few days, getting Ares base up and running again. The three evacuation vessels,...

Hell is a harsh word to use in reference to a child, but no other word fit. All the other kids in the many foster homes he spent time in...

Tuesday, May 24, 1983 Schwabstadl Kaserne, Lechfeld Airbase, Bavaria, West Germany I stretched out my right leg under the desk. My knee...

“Where are my poinsettias ?” Claire asked anxiously as she hurried through the lobby of her place. “They were supposed to be delivered...

From a story told to R.C. Green by Madge Carter Green Christmas Eve 1934 arrived at the Carter farm bright, clear, and cold. Seven year...

Chapter 12 Hiroko knew her plan had failed, hopefully she will get some credit for a near miss. She slowed the ship and began an approach...

Jan stopped her car in front of the school. Cathy, waiting alone, got in beside her mother. "Where's Cheryl?" Cathy asked. Jan pointed to...

It was not an easy move or one she had anticipated, instead, it had been a necessary disruption to her life; one that she never saw...

74th Warhead Detachment, Schwabstädl Kaserne, Lechfeld Air Base, Bavaria, West Germany. May, 1983. It was midnight, and I had just gotten...

Chapter 9 The next day the wait was over and they had arrived on station to find the scans were accurate, there was roughly egg shaped...

From my very first week on the job, the fourth day, while working on Mr. Lantini’s Pizza Palace deposit and the bank president walked by,...

Chapter 6 Everyone on the Juarez settled into the travel routine, of impromptu games, sports, contests, and bets. Travel time was the...