Author: Vic Socotra

Weather Report: Lots of Numbers

So, the crowd was pleased with this week’s Weather Report, a snippet compilation of some of the stuff going on around the world in which we are going to have to live. Live together, if that is possible. The Chairman is adamant that we should not sink into a partisan account of the extraordinary events. […]

What Are We Talking About?

Rocket had a docket, ready to roll this morning. It was a family thing- an image of his father, slim and tall, in front of something he had desgined and was attempting to sell to America on behalf of a hard working and visionary company run by a guy of the same stripe. It was […]

The Penumbra of Tuesday

DeMille cancelled the production meeting this morning. It is normally a simple process that follows a certain biologic imperative. Eyes open. Latrine visited after industrial-grade percolator is started in the Bunk House kitchenette. If devices had been suitable charged in the hours of darkness- a process reliant on local access to the regional power grid- […]

Arrias: Jaw to Jaw

A Federation starship is sneaking around the Romulan Neutral Zone, playing cat and mouse with a Romulan ship. The Federation captain is very aggressive and there is nearly an incident, but he reports that he got away without being detected. Several weeks later, in a bar in a neutral space port on a rock circling […]

Pee Tea Ess Dee

(The interior of the al Firdos District Command and Control (C3) Bunker in Baghdad on the second anniversary of the strike. The big hole in the roof was opened up by one of the two Guided Bomb Units (GBU-27 PAVEWAY III laser-guided munitions) on Feb 13, 1991. The impeccably executed strike we learned the next […]

The Merry Month of May

DeMille had to add a meeting to the weekend schedule. Sundays are important, since the regular routine is at odds with a day our Western civilization has traditionally devoted to devotional stuff. You know, the whole getting cleaned up, properly dressed, and traveling to gatherings in which the topic of eternity and the role of […]

FREQUENT WIND

The Chairman was up on the back deck of the Big House. He claims to have a touch of the Arthur-itis, and won’t be talking to Arthur for a variety of perfectly understandable issues. He wanted to make some things clear, and launched into an impassioned string of remarks about the current situation. We were […]

Big Sister

(Nina Jankowicz, noted information theoretician who identified the Steele Dossier as “true” and the Hunter Laptop “false.” She is in the news this morning.) There was a moment of chaos at Refuge Farm yesterday. That was the product of several streams of activity. At the personal level, the Writer’s Section scrambled to find sweaters and […]

Cocktails with the Times-Exponent:

Culpeper author pens book about espionage in America, “Cocktails with the Admiral” Editor’s Note: The following article appeared in the local paper- the one we call the “Clarion-Bugle” in jest- regarding the recent publication of “Cocktails With the Admiral.” Author Allison Brophy Champion has the same approach to the book that we did at Socotra […]