Hello, my friends! Chapter 49's teaser is here! :-) Unfortunately, I had an elderly relative suffer a bad fall, go into hospice, and then pass soon after this month, so my normal timeline is a bit askew given everything that suddenly needed to happen, including days off work, relatives traveling from out of town to attend the funeral, letting people stay at my house, etc. I'm working on the fin...
2024-04-03 02:24:03 +0000 UTC View Post
“200 yards out, to the right of that corporate art in the square,” I directed her quietly. “The walkers who look like they were part of a Village People cover band or something. I really wonder what their story was right before they died. It’s probably really interesting.”
“I-I can’t see them; it’s too far,” Lori said.
“Use the binoculars in my duffel bag if you ...
2024-03-25 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Of course, I've heard the songs my whole life, but have you ever seen the music videos for these popular songs? I know I haven't. Enjoy!
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I continued to take out the rest of the Village People, though the black motorcycle cop was curiously missing. Wonder where he had wandered off to. It made me happy to think that he had survived all this shit and was even now ente...
2024-03-25 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
They really leaned into the beefcake imagery.
2024-03-25 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAt this point in the timeline the Atlanta metropolitan area alone had a 2010 population of approximately 5.26 million. The population of Earth was around 7 billion. Without my ship’s sensors to scan the surface, I had no idea of the exact number of walkers now roaming the Earth endlessly, hunting the living. Assuming at least 99% of the old human population were now walkers, which was optimis...
2024-03-20 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThere was something simple and beautiful about all this. A man and his rifle. Sure, I was using a scope, an advanced optic system by most measures, but this wasn’t Star Trek level technology. I wasn’t transporting a bullet through space time to reach my target. This was truly skill based. Sending a bullet from point A to target B took skill. You needed to take so many factors into considera...
2024-03-20 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostDuring the writing process, I confirmed the CDC really does have a lot of dangerous biological samples on hand, but if containment failed would they really blow the place up?
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Was there anything left in the man’s soul worth saving? Or was he a hollowed-out husk waiting to die when the large, bright red numbers on the wall finally counted down to zero and this place went up i...
2024-03-18 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostPatreon refused to go to the link I consulted; it's below:
https://www.nrafamily.org/content/basics-of-shooting-breath-control/
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She took another shot and this time it was closer, maybe a few feet off target.
“Breathing while firing the shot hurts your ...
2024-03-18 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Opinions may vary widely on this one. For the purposes of my story, especially with longer-range shooting where Gothic is going for head shots versus torso shots, it's definitely worth it.
2024-03-13 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostLike anything else, you get what you pay for.
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As the clouds in the night sky slowly moved to allow the moon to bathe the dark area in soft moonlight, I squeezed the trigger. A loud clap was the only sound to be heard as the suppressed 5.56-millimeter match grade ammunition was sent out the barrel of my rifle, crossing nearly 300 yards to reach my target. In this instance, th...
2024-03-13 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostI consulted a lot of shooting manuals during the writing of this scene, but I also wanted to link to an article that would be easy to follow when I realized that many of my readers might be from countries with far stricter gun laws than in the US.
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“Can you help me?” Lori asked, trying to figure out how to properly hold the rifle.
I carefully guided her hands to the ...
2024-03-11 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI actually made a brief mention of anaphasic energy another time in this fic.
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“I have been here for quite some time, B’Elanna,” T’Maz unrepentantly replied, showing no empathy for her pain. “The captain has made it clear that Q is preventing transport to the surface. It is almost certainly the case that his power is preventing transport, rather than a failure in the ...
2024-03-11 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 48 is here my friends! :-) Our time in the Walking Dead universe is rapidly coming to a close. We have a couple things to finish but then we're moving on. Enjoy the chapter! And as always, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for your support. Without it, this story would not be where it is today.
2024-03-04 03:34:03 +0000 UTC View PostI still have several scenes left to write and no clue where to reasonably cut the chapter off yet, so chapter 48 will probably drop Sunday or Monday night. In the meantime, enjoy this little glimpse of the chapter. Feel free to speculate on where things are going :-)
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“I love you. There’s nobody here.”
“Please! No!”
Ok, it was beyond time ...
2024-03-03 03:56:34 +0000 UTC View Post
The only thing I cared about was that all of his equipment looked in good condition and he had stuff I wanted, including something that I had hardly expected to find, a Surefire suppressor that I’d only seen Special Operations Command (SOCOM) operatives use.
Thankfully, this suppressor---never a silencer, since that was just ridiculous---should fit my AR-15, as it had what look...
2024-02-21 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I watched a few videos to get a sense for what this thing could offer.
2024-02-21 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
With little care for the corpse of this man, I quickly stripped him out of his tactical vest, the standard IOTV, and from the weight of it I could tell that the vest had the ceramic ballistic plate inserts inside, providing protection against projectile penetration. The attached holders for spare magazines, both rifle and pistol, were probably even more valuable to me and could be attached to t...
2024-02-21 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
As we walked around this horror show, not only was I looking for threats, but I was also looking for useful supplies and I hit the jack pot at a .50 caliber machine gun emplacement. Thankfully, the soldiers here were carrying the standard issue M4 carbine which used 5.56mm NATO cartridges, which was exactly what my AR used. My more mercenary side was tempted to take all of the M4s, but I hardly...
2024-02-19 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
