JamesSavik

According to Marine legend, a platoon assaulting Tarawa in 1943 created a tontine with a kitty of over two thousand dollars. That was cold comfort for the four survivors from the first wave to hit the pier. Of that group, they were awarded a Navy Cross, three Silver Stars, and four Purple Hearts.

All this can be found at any Walmart. You'll need: 2 X boxes of Uncle Ben's Original Wild Rice 1 pound of small peeled shrimp 1 onion diced 1 bell pepper diced 1 clove of garlic diced 1 cup cheese - your choice but I like medium cheddar Steps 1 Make the wild rice according to directions. 2 Dice the onion, bell pepper and garlic 3 Combine vegetables, wild rice and shrimp in a mixing bowl and stir evenly 4 Place shrimp and rice mixture in a 9 X 13 casserole pan 5 Cover the top with cheese 6 Cover the casserole pan with foil 7 cook at 350 degrees for 20 minutes 8 remove foil, cook an addition 5 minutes 9 Let stand for 20 minutes before you serve ______________________________________________________________ This is a recipe lost to our family years ago when the aunt who always made it passed away. I've been valiantly trying to reconstruct the recipe, and I think this iteration is probably as close as I will get. This is a good recipe to make a day or two before Thanksgiving or Christmas and throw it in the oven before the feast.

I glower at the gas pump. It does what it does to me and won't even buy me dinner.

“For the love of God, Montresor!” From Poe's The Cask of Amontillado

Didn't Velma say that when they pulled the mask off the villain, and it turned out to be REDACTED-BY-MANAGEMENT

Too many of today's movies are just plain awful. Many of the authors on this site can and have written much better than the absolute offal Hollyweird is excreting.

Sorry. I'm in a monogamous relationship with Stellaris. I think their next game pack will be toxic sewer-dwelling zombies who slay with their stench. The Stellaris AI doesn't like it when I play anything else.

Well, of course I'm a Lonely Mountain. People become such unreasonable haters after a few explosive eruptions.

That depends on the cat.

In the martial arts, a tyro can expect bruises and lessons that will last a lifetime.

Geno Smith was a journeyman backup QB until this year, when he won the starting job in Seattle. Drafted by the New York Perpetual Dumpster Fire, err I mean the Jets, in the 2nd round of the 2013 draft, he was labeled a draft bust and left the Jets 3 seasons later after a knee injury. He spent time with the Giants, Chargers and finally Seattle as a backup. As a backup quarterback, he was able to gain experience and, more importantly, not rack up the sorts of injuries starters get. When he got the opportunity to start for Seattle this year, he is playing like a top-tier starter. The Seattle Seahawks are one of the biggest surprises in the league this season, leading the highly competitive NFC West division with a six and three record.

Let’s say that you have a side character who’s a total hot head. He can’t help it, he’s just cursed with an extremely short fuse and a very low tolerance for bullshit of any kind. I like him already. Kindred spirits we must be.

When I saw these two, I instantly thought of the tabby kitten and his golden retriever partner in crime, Junior and Smiley, from the Company.

I like a good disaster movie, but skipped this one. When I was a kid, we had a pair of them that came out and set the standard for disaster movies: The Towering Inferno (1974) and Earthquake (1974). What made them both scary to me as a kid, they were plausible. A fire in a skyscraper or a big, nasty earthquake in Southern California are completely believable. What's NOT believable was the moon falling. That's just not going to happen. It may eventually fly out of earth orbit and leave us, but the law of conservation of momentum will not be repealed. Now, write a script for what would happen if we lost the moon, and that might be interesting. 2012 is another one where the "science" was so butchered, it ruined the movie (for me). If you remember the plot, the earth was going geologically rabid because neutrinos were heating the earth's core. Neutrinos just do not work that way. They are exceptionally difficult to detect because they are just so... neutral. Authors: it's one thing to take creative liberties. It's quite another to be so completely ignorant of the science in your sci-fi to actually be embarrassing.

Not really current, but Jim Morrison is always fun to look at. I was told I used to look like him.

Who might we find exculpated if cops ran the FBI and not political bag men? It would probably piss you off.

I had just turned thirteen the previous July, passed the NRA Hunter Safety Course, and was excited to join the hunt finally. Dad drove his truck, and Josiah Jamison and his sons followed in theirs. We left on a Friday night so that we could hunt on a cold Saturday morning in November. I knew Beau Porter would be there, and I didn’t want to see him. Jake Henderson and Dylan Johnson, two cousins my age, would be there. If I stayed close to my cousins, nothing terrible would happen.

Ghouls have different characteristics depending on who you read. One described them as a more intelligent and quicker form of the ubiquitous zombie.

Here's something fun for today...

In Order of Appearance Chapter 1 Name Age Birthday Tim Shepherd 24 (Narrator) July 26 Frank Beauregard 20 July 23 Chris Ashley 19 Aug 2 Tony Ramano 18 Nov 25 Chapter 2 Name Age Birthday Toby Rankin 13 July 25 Brandon Rankin 14

Coming soon I will be adding a Listing of character names ages as they appear in the story. If it’s hard to keep track of for the reader, it’s worse for the writer.

Thanks! As one chapter is practically a novella, they aren't the easiest thing to get out.

i. Our excursion to Arrowhead was exhausting. I was down and out so early; I may have worried a few people. I forgot about our little tradition of having big and little brothers spend the night together. The idea was to let them get close to each other. With this pound full of horn dogs, sex was inevitable. No one complained, and the practice had led to some close friendships. If it works, don’t fix it. I woke up early to a crowded bed between David and Todd. On the other side of