Ding dong the screen went and up popped the senior experts from the Navy’s Technical Intelligence Center of Excellence. “Oh crap” Marlow muttered. Actually only one expert, who was known as The Iceberg. Marlow felt like the Titanic. “I’m afraid I don’t understand why operational intelligence authored this piece. This falls within our bailiwick,” she […]

Marlow headed off to face “Cluster Twin” Aenid. Of course, no one in Naval Intelligence ever called her that to her face. No one dared. Still, the name fit, and no one ever thought of her as anything else. Marlow had run afoul of Aenid before as an Ensign watch stander in Hawaii over the […]

Author’s note: With the ever spiraling out of control war of words between the Americans and the NORKs and the upoming NORK commie party founding day and America’s discovery celebration of Columbus Day this week, I plodded a few more steps down the dark rabbit hole. The jokers graffiti doing their Dr Strangelove thing With […]

With my attention consumed by the aftermath of the events in Las Vegas, I came to understand slowly how close our beautiful Victorian era neighborhood in the Coastal Empire is to chaos only in dribs and drabs. It was like retrospectively watching water dripping upwards up from the sink back into the faucet this week. […]

Marlow was arc’ing and sparking in front of his large screen composing himself and his outline when his boss stuck his head in. “Listen, if you want, you can put together a one-liner on the ‘Red Death’ business. We’ll forward it up the chain by the end of the day.” Without waiting for an answer, […]