JamesSavik

That Boy with the Far Away Eyes I was drivin’ home late Saturday night Through Pearl, Mississippi Listening to bluegrass music on the redneck radio station, And the cowboy said: “You know you should always have your .45 by your side” And I was so pleased to be informed of this That I shot twenty stop signs in his honour, Thank you Joe-Bob, thank you lord I had an arrangement to met a boy, and I was kind of late And I thought by the time I got there he’d be off, He’d be off with the nearest truck driver he could find Much to my surprise there he was sittin’ in a corner Little bleary, worse for wear and tear Eyes bloodshot and stoned stupid Was the boy with far away eyes Well I tell you So if you’re down on you’re luck, and you can’t lobotomize Find a boy with far away eyes And if you’re downright disgusted And life ain’t worth a dime Get a boy with far away eyes Well Well the cowboy kept right on saying That all I had to do was send ten dollars To the church of the sacred bleeding heart the NRA, Located somewhere in Baton Rouge, Louisiana And next week they’d have a word with Charlton Heston And all my dreams would come true So I did, and next week I got my boy Well you know what kind of eyes he's got, Well I tell you So if you’re down on you’re luck, I know you all accessorize Find a boy with far away eyes And if you’re downright disgusted And life ain’t worth a dime Get a boy with far away eyes So if you’re down on you’re luck, I know you all antagonize Get a boy with far away eyes

Case: Black is an experiment for me based on two theories of horror and suspense. 1. Adults won't believe in monsters unless they are plausible. That doesn't mean they don't believe in monsters. We've all met them. They are the predators and the pervs, the confidence men and criminals: the every day monsters that populate the world. In Case: Black I've tried to create as believable a "zombie" as possible. The bio-agent that creates them, the constraints on the "zombies" and the progression of the disease are all very, very plausible. Viruses don't work as fast or as completely as they do in 28 Days Later. (If they did, we would all be extinct.) They do work the way that they do in Case:Black and that is by design. What I'm shooting for is a story that you can "buy" without suspending a ton of disbelief. 2. Build scenes that are fast, short and directly contribute to the plot, builds suspense and raise the stakes as it moves. That's self evident. I don't spend a lot of time with exposition and characterization. I do most characterization through action. What I'm trying to achieve is an adrenalin rush, not enlightenment. Buckle your seat-belt, you are in for a wild ride. I'm not trying to do fan fiction or "me too" zombie story. I am trying to start from scratch and create something new that makes something with many tiny cold feet run across your spine. A horror story that doesn't go away when you eject the DVD.

Case: Black is an experiment for me based on two theories of horror and suspense. 1. Adults won't believe in monsters unless they are plausible. That doesn't mean they don't believe in monsters. We've all met them. They are the predators and the pervs, the confidence men and criminals: the every day monsters that populate the world. In Case: Black I've tried to create as believable a "zombie" as possible. The agent that creates them, the constraints on the "zombies" and the progression of the disease are all very, very plausible. Viruses don't work as fast or as completely as they do in 28 Days Later. If they did, we would all be extinct. They do work the way that they do in Case:Black and that is by design. What I'm shooting for is a story that you can "buy" without a ton of suspension of disbelief. 2. Build scenes that are fast, short and directly contribute to the plot and builds suspense and raises the stakes as it moves. I'm not trying to do fan fiction or "me too" zombie story. I am trying to start from scratch and create something new that makes something with many tiny cold feet run across your spine. A horror story that doesn't go away when you eject the DVD.

Flathead Lake, Montana July 16, 2016 0815MDT Scott McGrath was fly fishing when his cell phone rang. He looked at the DC area code on his phone and considered tossing it in the river. Instead he answered it. “McGrath.” “Please hold for the Secretary of Homeland Security.” He sighed and brought in his line and waded out of the stream while he waited for the call to come through. “Agent McGrath, this is Director Foley.” “There must be some mistake sir. I’ve been retired sinc

Camp Shelby Hattiesburg, MS July 16, 2016 0905CST Taylor's men were on the last leg of their run when his cell phone message alert went off. He pulled it out of his holster and looked: All Commands: begin Case Black protocol immediately He was so stunned that he almost took a spill on a tree root. He instantly dialed the base duty officer. It rang twice and a recording took over: "This is Shelby Command. The NCA has declared Case Black. All leaves are canceled. All Guard units are ca

Goodness knows- with all of those super bowl rings, they need to hit the sauce.

Is your kitty a Sith Lord?

This afternoon I spent some time with a friend that had 4 puppies. They were cute and wiggly and were lots of fun to pet and play with. When I got home, my cat sniffed me, hissed and bit the stew out of me.

Unless you're an old hippie or druggie you probably don't remember Lou Reed. He was a rock and roll bad ass before it was cool. He wrote songs about dope and cross dressers back when Jimmy Morrison was banned from doing concerts because they thought he shook his Johnson at them. I'm limited by the number of videos I can post but there's a couple more you can look up: Sweet Jane, Pale Blue Eyes and Heroin all by the Velvet Underground.

Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center FEMA/Homeland Security Operations Center Bluemount, VA July 16, 2016 10:00EST/9:00CST Director of Homeland Security Francis Kirkwood glared at the technicians as they hastily arranged the teleconference. Half of the Federal bureaucracy was connected now in addition to an alphabet soup of military and law enforcement brass. On the hour he began the conference. If anyone was late they could read the brief. "I am Frances Kirkwood, Direct

Washington, DC White House July 16, 2016 0832EST, 0732CST Secret Service Director Donald Moss had been in his office when he heard the SAM(Surface to Air Missiles) missiles fire off. He was out of his desk and in the Situation Room in a matter of seconds. "Where is POTUS?" The Duty Officer answered, "His detail put him on Marine One as soon as we got the alert and he's en route to Camp David. The first family is at their residence in Denver. The Vice President has been dive

Memphis, TN July 16, 2016 0730 The morning traffic was rising to its peak as Officers Carson and Ogletree pulled their cruiser out on the big loop around town comprised of I-240 on the South, I-40 on the North and I-69 around the West. Morning traffic watch was a big headache and both of them were relieved that they would soon be rotating shifts. It never failed that someone would screw up and tie up traffic for miles. Sure enough, the first call of the day took them to the Lama

Camp Shelby Hattiesburg, MS July 16, 2016 0530CST Sergeant Rob Taylor watched his kids doing morning P.T. After five weeks in the Mississippi heat, they were shaping up nicely. They weren't bad for weekend warriors. They were all too damn young and greener than grass. All of them had missed out on the big sand. Afghanistan. Iraq. That had all wound down and most of the vets of those hell-holes didn't want anything more to do with the Army. It was a shame really. Taylor had spent

Comicfan- As I have time, and inspiration, I like to give the prompts a go. Just wanted you to know that in my latest (attempted?) thriller Case: Black, you'll see a number of scenes that were originally prompt responses. I planned it that way for a long time. It took a while for it to come to critical mass. Have a look: http://www.gayauthors.org/story/jamessavik/caseblack James

Homeland Security Command Post Carlsbad, NM August 30, 2005 It had been a hard week for McGrath. He had seen some of his worst nightmares about Pandora come true. He had painfully reconstructed the last few weeks around the White Sands Lab but no one was exactly sure what had gone wrong. Jerry Fowler from the New Mexico National Guard entered the Command Post and said, “Do we have anything new?” McGrath shook his head and said, “Things went to hell so fast there is just no wa

Las Cruces, NM August 25, 2005 "Oh my god, I think that I killed him!", the young woman shouted holding a shovel. Officer Ron Ward of the Las Cruces Police Department answered, "I'll check. Where is he?" She said, "In the back yard. He surprised me on the patio. He tried to grab me but I smacked him." Her hands were shaking as she held the shovel at port-arms. Ward pulled his Beretta and mag-lite. He keyed his radio and said, "This is one-L-19 responding to complaint of a

Alamogordo, NM August 20, 2005 "Look, I know you weren't really ready to talk to me, but I have to tell you what has been going on. Just listen to me ..." the voice on the phone said. Sal Rossa sighed at his cell phone. The clock by his bed read two oh-three am and he had a crazy woman on the phone. "Jessie. How nice to hear from you. What gave you the idea that I didn't want to talk to you. Not taking your calls, ducking your voice mails or actually hiding from you?" Now it wa

White Sands Missile Range Homeland Security BL-5 Lab March 22, 2004 After clearing security and going down two different elevators, McGrath guessed that he was at least 500 meters underground. The corridor had heavy steel blast doors with key card locks and biohazard signs every 50 meters. The deeper into the facility that he went, the higher the biohazard protection level of the labs that lined the corridors. He asked the guard what the USAMARID needed from the Dept. of Homela

CIA Headquarters Feb. 1. 1993 Senior Agent Scott McGrath sat in the auditorium as the new Director droned on about his new agenda. There was a brand new President in the White House with a brand new agenda. The buzz word on the Hill was “Peace Dividend” and no one wanted to hear about left over Cold War nightmares. The United States had been very helpful to the Russians spending billions of dollars to mothball old reactors, destroy chemical and biological weapons and decommission

SHAFE: Supreme Headquarters Allied Forces Europe Secret Arms Reduction Talks June 10, 1990 Andrew North waited for his Russian counterpart in a lush conference room. Things were going exceptionally well between NATO and the new Commonwealth of Independent States. In fact the United States and the new Commonwealth were cooperating very closely. It had come as a rude surprise to discover the true size and scope of the former Soviet Union’s chemical and biological weapons programs. Over the

Kuibyshev, Russia (Renamed Samara in 1990) Dec. 22, 1989 19:20 hours Anatoliy Yolkin, his wife and two daughters waited nervously in their old family dacha the Volga River. Russia was not a country known for peaceful transfers of power. In everyone there was a great fear that there would be purges like those of the October Revolution in 1917. Yet all was quiet and Yolkin’s General had approved his leave and said, “Perhaps when you get back, sanity will have returned.”

GRU Headquarters Moscow, USSR Dec. 20, 1989 At 2am the phone on GRU Colonel Bonderenko’s desk rang. Bonderenko glared at it. Only a third of the bottle of vodka on his desk was left. For days it had been happening and now there was no turning back. The Soviet Union was going to fall. What would become of his beloved Rodina(motherland)? He answered the phone with a terse, “Daa?” “Misha. They’re going to do it. They are really going to do it.” His oldest friend

Some of the most horrifying things on earth come from the minds of men. Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis before it became the Pandora virus. It's never going to be all right again.

Vozrozhdeniya Island (a.k.a the Island of Death) Aral Sea Soviet Biological Warfare Testing Facility Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic July 20, 1984 "Come on Vanya, unless you want to be another test subject!" Vanya Akulov quickly tested the restraining strap and checked the instruments monitoring the test subject’s vital signs on the last chimpanzee and left the large vapor chamber. The beast gave him a murderous glare but was completely restrained and tranquilized. There were t

A Cold War nightmare returns with a roar in a devastating bio-terrorist attack on the United States.