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Conspiracy Experience Stories Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Burning a Spy – Part 2

continued . . . Remember what I said about backstopping in part 1? That’s important now. When a clandestine agency physically terminates an asset it is “tied off.” Oh, there may be some local investigation, but it will end up as just another unsolved murder because the legend is solid.…

Roland HughesSeptember 6, 2017August 24, 2017

Experience Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Tell Your Broken English Telemarketers Not to Call on Labor Day

(510) 240-8667 Remember that phone number and add it to whatever call blocker you have. This telemarketing scam called me multiple times on Labor Day. The first time I was either busy or out of signal range because I had a missed call without a message. The final time was…

Roland HughesSeptember 5, 2017September 5, 2017

Fiction Flash Fiction Stories Surf

Tuesday’s Five Minute Flash Fiction #7: Prompt “Broken”

Broken The two young men stood on the bluff, the hoods of their thick sweatshirts pulled over their heads, their arms stiff, pressing both hands deep into the pockets of their faded jeans in an effort to ward off the chill of the morning breeze. The wind blew cold from…

Gregory LambSeptember 5, 2017August 2, 2017

Conspiracy Experience Stories Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Burning a Spy – Part 1

Many random firings of synapse lead to a post such as this one. Every writer must be keenly aware of that proverbial butterfly in the rain forest flapping its wings. It’s really stunning to see just how many writers get it so incredibly wrong and just how many hundreds of…

Roland HughesSeptember 4, 2017August 24, 2017

Experience Society

The More You Are Paid the Less You Are Worth

There was a time when getting paid like Bill Gates or Jamie Dimon was shopped around as a goal one should have, a true measure of self worth. It was fallout from the movie “Wall Street” which launch a shortened version of the quote into our cultural conscience Greed is…

Roland HughesSeptember 3, 2017August 15, 2017

Experience Stories

#19YearsLater – Choosing a Date

Many of you reading this blog are doing so because you fancy yourself a writer, if not yet an author. While it is difficult to impart hard earned wisdom and to siphon off the insanity which occupies brain then rushes out from fingers to keyboard to prose, there are some…

Roland HughesSeptember 2, 2017

Experience Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Sorry About Recent Barrage of Tweets and FaceBook Posts

Sorry about the recent flood, but the plug-in we were using to auto publish had an update come out and the installation procedure didn’t check for the “new” requirement of Php 5.4 or higher. Gummed things up since August 21.

Roland HughesAugust 31, 2017