JamesSavik

Sometimes advertisers get it right.

Don't join the Marines for the peregrination. They never go anywhere nice. ☠️

An angel, a werewolf, and a vampire go to a bar. They look up and see that a human has entered. The vampire sniffs waspishly, "They let lunch walk right in?" The angle and vampire make their excuses and leave. They'll let anyone in the joint.

In the Mafia, this term has special meaning. Consigliere is a highly placed and trusted associate of the Don. He knows where all the bodies are buried because his orders or the Don's put them there.

If stupid does indeed hurt, we must be surrounded by masochists.

Ahhh... the garage band. Where volume and enthusiasm make up for skill and polish.

The Second Coming William Butler Yeats Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

Dreams are messages from the deep BEAT.

Who needs a watchdog when you've got a forty pound Savannah cat?

Just don't catch him on a bad day.

The Unblinking Eye Once upon a time, the news of the world came to us at the sedate speed of the newspaper man's Linotype. The news of the world would arrive at your door every morning along with sports, comics, book reviews and obituaries. On its way, editors might decide that the typhoon in China or the earthquake in Persia wouldn’t be of interest to local subscribers. Sometimes the images of distant disasters and war took weeks or months to end up before the public. Given the advances in telecommunications like microwave relays and satellites, the news cycle, and vast amounts of information can reach us as it happens. Now we can see the great events in real time. Our generation has seen more, known more, been more connected than ever before. We have had a high definition box seat to every earthquake, every volcano, every hurricane, every typhoon, every forest fire, every terrorist bomb, every war, every plague, and every human misery across the globe. It’s only human for people to say- I just don’t remember this much chaos in the old days. That chaos has always been there. We just weren’t as connected. Now we have to consider exactly what we are shown and what gets left on the cutting room floor. In the eighties, we wouldn’t have seen that typhoon roll over Taiwan. In the nineties we wouldn’t have seen the glaciers calving in the Antarctic. There’s a reason why we are seeing this and not something else. There’s a reason why we see human interest stories and silly cat pictures instead of something else. I won’t suggest whose agenda is being served. I won’t suggest that it is all a huge political cat fight. No one is stupid. We know this. It’s just important as you sit in front of your digitally multiplexed information pipeline to your brain that the people turning the spigots have a purpose and an agenda. It’s up to you to think for yourself and decide whether that purpose and agenda is in your best interests, your country’s best interests or the world's best interests. These images are not flat. They are three-dimensional and interactive. We are not simply observers. We are also players in this huge game and must take responsibility for our tiny part of it. How that works is a personal choice, but the great game is in progress and will continue with or without your input.

I tend to write people I've known or composites of people I've known. If you're familiar with The Company or The Summer Job, I've known most of those characters and their backstory. I didn't do that to be creepy. A lot of those guys didn't survive the eighties/nineties. Much of The Company is the author's wish fulfillment, and in the story, they survive and thrive. In The Summer Job, the characters illustrated why they acted as they did, and how sometimes people can be perceived as villainous, but are redeemed when you get to know them better.

viva la guillotiné

I wait a year or so before I upgrade. Innovators can have the bleeding edge. I'm done with doing free beta testing for MicroShaft.

I bought a few copies to give to the nieces and nephews for Christmas. After they saw the movie, they were motivated to see what happens next. Use every bit of literary jujitsu to GET THEM READING and KEEP THEM READING.

Their Last Battlefield Uncharted space, Scutum-Centaurus Arm The bridge of the fleet carrier Intrepid was quiet. Captain Carter only had a minimal bridge watch on hand. The carrier and accompanying escort group were on station at the rendezvous point waiting for her brood of scout ships to return. She had been on deployment for six months while her attached scouts had scanned thousands of previously uncharted star systems. When the Rim War ended, the Alliance fou

Explorers surveying the galaxy find something humbling and frightening.

The little girl with the blond pigtails is carrying the whole piece!

Something that I've been doing with my stories here is to pick a consistent font and type size. The object of doing this is it makes the stories easier to read. This is the default font and type size. This is my preferred Tahoma size 20. I've noticed that it makes stories easier to read on both the PC and phones. The smaller font tends to be much closer together and in long paragraphs, it makes for more difficult reading. The larger size spreads it out the text and makes for easier reading. There is a lot you can do with the controls in the story vault, but I advise two things: Remember the KISS principle Stay consistent I just wanted to throw this out there as there are numerous stories that I enjoy, but some give me a headache the craft of their writing has nothing to do with.