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, […]

Large Screen Display RAT CRAP! It was shaping up to be just another Mark 1 Mod 0 standard Navy day in the intelligence biz — the system went Tango Uniform, again, so Marlow went off on a hunt for a two day old pastry and the latest rumors on this year’s Commanding Officer reorganization in […]

Perhaps more importantly, Lt Marlow’s career depended on it. His other analytical pieces had been in endless loops of internal editing. Mostly this consisted of quibbling as to who discovered what, when and so forth — credit for new ideas, no matter how inconsequential, had to be shared upward from the Suitland trenches with the […]

Author’s note: It’s Red October time on the Korean peninsula and the observable realities look bad. In reaction, the Irish optimist inside me decided to dwell inside a fantasy about the outcome. So, with a tip of the combo cover to Tom Clancy, the CIA, and Jack Ryan here is a short, serialized, not-ready-for-prime time […]

Dozens may die and hundreds may be injured today, but tomorrow we’ll be shopping online and eating dinner out. And a day or maybe a week later, we’ll be watching if not be consumed by yet another record breaking catastrophe. Thank heavens, yesterday’s, last week’s, last month’s and this past spring’s nightmares in Las Vegas, […]