This book has been sitting in the ‘to-be-done’ tray, so this month it is going to get the second revision and release to beta readers.

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Home again, home again…

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After rescuing Tim and not fulfilling the mission, which might seem to become a running theme in the relationship between the grandmother and our boy, they arrive home, hitch a ride to New York in the corporate jet, and then dispatch it to Switzerland where Annie is booked into a clinic.

Good deed for the day done.

And in a last-minute move he didn’t see coming sister Darcy, best friends with everyone, has gone with Annie to be someone familiar.  Tim of course goes with her.  A ride to Europe in a private jet, and the prospect of a holiday was worth sacrificing being at the wedding.

Well, the first wedding.

But the bad news is, while our boy was away having fun in helicopters the grandmother’s condition deteriorated as anyone with stage four cancer knows.  One minute you’re reasonably OK the next, at death’s door.

Fresh off the plane, there’s just enough time to change and get to the ceremony.

There is no time to reflect on the merits of what is essentially a shotgun wedding, it’s done.

Of course, there’s a little sidebar in doing it, one that may play out in a sequel.

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This book has been sitting in the ‘to-be-done’ tray, so this month it is going to get the second revision and release to beta readers.

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The end or is it the beginning.

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It’s always fun to get to the end of the story.

This one, at times almost wrote itself because the elements were such a joy to write.

It started in a dance, two people who knew deep down they were in love with each other, they just either didn’t want to acknowledge it or didn’t think it was possible the other would ever see it.

How many of us sometimes look wistfully at the one we love and know it will never happen?

I’ve been there, and I know that feeling.

And then, when it is recognised, in a mad moment of realisation, you go from not having it to having it and not wanting to mess it up or wanting it to end.

Love is one of those emotions that is very hard to understand, control, or manage, and as it is often said, the heart does what it wants to do and you sometimes have to go along for the ride.

And sometimes put yourself out there and be damned to the consequences.

It’s going to hurt, one way or another, and we can only hope it’s a good hurt and not a bad one.

But will it help to go from relatively poor to very, very rich?

That of course is another story.

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This book has been sitting in the ‘to-be-done’ tray, so this month it is going to get the second revision and release to beta readers.

…

Home again, home again…

…

After rescuing Tim and not fulfilling the mission, which might seem to become a running theme in the relationship between the grandmother and our boy, they arrive home, hitch a ride to New York in the corporate jet, and then dispatch it to Switzerland where Annie is booked into a clinic.

Good deed for the day done.

And in a last-minute move he didn’t see coming sister Darcy, best friends with everyone, has gone with Annie to be someone familiar.  Tim of course goes with her.  A ride to Europe in a private jet, and the prospect of a holiday was worth sacrificing being at the wedding.

Well, the first wedding.

But the bad news is, while our boy was away having fun in helicopters the grandmother’s condition deteriorated as anyone with stage four cancer knows.  One minute you’re reasonably OK the next, at death’s door.

Fresh off the plane, there’s just enough time to change and get to the ceremony.

There is no time to reflect on the merits of what is essentially a shotgun wedding, it’s done.

Of course, there’s a little sidebar in doing it, one that may play out in a sequel.

…

This book has been sitting in the ‘to-be-done’ tray, so this month it is going to get the second revision and release to beta readers.

…

All’s well…

…

Maybe.

Shotguns are in abundance, Tim has one, and it’s a standoff until he sees Annie.

I guess when I was writing this it was a little moving, and not for the first time when writing something that is emotionally difficult, a tear or two happens.

It’s the same when I watch really emotional movies, though I never used to be like that.

To be honest, I don’t know what it would be like to be confronted with a very ill loved one.  I think there would be stunned silence, then the start of the realisation of what it means, followed by all sorts of thoughts.

Not what it would be like if there was nothing I could do.

It has happened to a lot of people around me.  My sister-in-law lost a daughter, taken by cancer.  They had been hoping she had beaten it, but it came back.

My wife’s best friend’s daughter has finally discovered why she was having stomach pains, yes, cancer again, stage 3 and there is hope.

But the emotional roller coaster is not one any of us want to get on.

At least in this story, I can give hope.

…

This book has been sitting in the ‘to-be-done’ tray, so this month it is going to get the second revision and release to beta readers.

…

Home again, home again…

…

After rescuing Tim and not fulfilling the mission, which might seem to become a running theme in the relationship between the grandmother and our boy, they arrive home, hitch a ride to New York in the corporate jet, and then dispatch it to Switzerland where Annie is booked into a clinic.

Good deed for the day done.

And in a last-minute move he didn’t see coming sister Darcy, best friends with everyone, has gone with Annie to be someone familiar.  Tim of course goes with her.  A ride to Europe in a private jet, and the prospect of a holiday was worth sacrificing being at the wedding.

Well, the first wedding.

But the bad news is, while our boy was away having fun in helicopters the grandmother’s condition deteriorated as anyone with stage four cancer knows.  One minute you’re reasonably OK the next, at death’s door.

Fresh off the plane, there’s just enough time to change and get to the ceremony.

There is no time to reflect on the merits of what is essentially a shotgun wedding, it’s done.

Of course, there’s a little sidebar in doing it, one that may play out in a sequel.

…

This book has been sitting in the ‘to-be-done’ tray, so this month it is going to get the second revision and release to beta readers.

…

Home again, home again…

…

After rescuing Tim and not fulfilling the mission, which might seem to become a running theme in the relationship between the grandmother and our boy, they arrive home, hitch a ride to New York in the corporate jet, and then dispatch it to Switzerland where Annie is booked into a clinic.

Good deed for the day done.

And in a last-minute move he didn’t see coming sister Darcy, best friends with everyone, has gone with Annie to be someone familiar.  Tim of course goes with her.  A ride to Europe in a private jet, and the prospect of a holiday was worth sacrificing being at the wedding.

Well, the first wedding.

But the bad news is, while our boy was away having fun in helicopters the grandmother’s condition deteriorated as anyone with stage four cancer knows.  One minute you’re reasonably OK the next, at death’s door.

Fresh off the plane, there’s just enough time to change and get to the ceremony.

There is no time to reflect on the merits of what is essentially a shotgun wedding, it’s done.

Of course, there’s a little sidebar in doing it, one that may play out in a sequel.

…

This book has been sitting in the ‘to-be-done’ tray, so this month it is going to get the second revision and release to beta readers.

…

All’s well…

…

Maybe.

Shotguns are in abundance, Tim has one, and it’s a standoff until he sees Annie.

I guess when I was writing this it was a little moving, and not for the first time when writing something that is emotionally difficult, a tear or two happens.

It’s the same when I watch really emotional movies, though I never used to be like that.

To be honest, I don’t know what it would be like to be confronted with a very ill loved one.  I think there would be stunned silence, then the start of the realisation of what it means, followed by all sorts of thoughts.

Not what it would be like if there was nothing I could do.

It has happened to a lot of people around me.  My sister-in-law lost a daughter, taken by cancer.  They had been hoping she had beaten it, but it came back.

My wife’s best friend’s daughter has finally discovered why she was having stomach pains, yes, cancer again, stage 3 and there is hope.

But the emotional roller coaster is not one any of us want to get on.

At least in this story, I can give hope.

…

This book has been sitting in the ‘to-be-done’ tray, so this month it is going to get the second revision and release to beta readers.

…

All’s well…

…

Maybe.

Shotguns are in abundance, Tim has one, and it’s a standoff until he sees Annie.

I guess when I was writing this it was a little moving, and not for the first time when writing something that is emotionally difficult, a tear or two happens.

It’s the same when I watch really emotional movies, though I never used to be like that.

To be honest, I don’t know what it would be like to be confronted with a very ill loved one.  I think there would be stunned silence, then the start of the realisation of what it means, followed by all sorts of thoughts.

Not what it would be like if there was nothing I could do.

It has happened to a lot of people around me.  My sister-in-law lost a daughter, taken by cancer.  They had been hoping she had beaten it, but it came back.

My wife’s best friend’s daughter has finally discovered why she was having stomach pains, yes, cancer again, stage 3 and there is hope.

But the emotional roller coaster is not one any of us want to get on.

At least in this story, I can give hope.

…

Behind the Green Door

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I was going to give the story the tag line, ‘a game show with a difference’.

But…

Then I remembered “The Running Man”, Arnold Swartzenegger running to save his life.  Not like that at all.

Yet…

I have been watching a number of TV shows of late that have a number of particularly interesting elements.

Silo – these people are living in an underground bunker, while the earth outside is unliveable.  Not sure why, but it doesn’t look good.

Fallout – same deal, underground bunkers are the in thing, but outside is recovering from a nuclear war, and lots of strange people.

Logan’s Run – this has the notion you can only live till 35.  I thought that was a little restrictive and made it 65

Oops…

Sorry, Soylent Green, it’s about the same age, or perhaps later but voluntary … but no, I’m not turning them into food.

I Robot – I liked the idea of a self-aware robot, but I decided to make it more life like than real life.  In other words, unless you knew it was a robot, you wouldn’t know

So…

Yes, I’m using the underground city trope but in my case it’s built inside a mountain and is only fifteen levels deep.

Outside, well, they had time to build underground city’s before all the volcanoes blew up, spewed ash and sulphur fumes, and a lot more, turning the earth into ice and an unbreathable and scorched barren environment that nearly killed everyone who couldn’t get to their bunkers.

Almost 200 years later, outside is almost liveable, but no one knows except those who run the cities, and after all this time, the original owner who saved a select population to repopulate the earth had morphed into the dictator, his power over everything in what might be called his kingdom, and causing growing discontent and the creation of a ‘resistance’ called the Brainstrust.

Now, that’s a lot of threads to tie together into a cohesive story.

So…

The protagonist is Michael.  He is an investigator, one of several.  Crime is minimal, but it occurs in his city of 25,000 people.

He is 65, and it’s time to retire.  He knows he gets a week with a guidance councellor to wrap up his life, leave a legacy, and go to the adjudication ceremony which will, after a jury determines what his outcome will be, hence the green door, the best possible.

What’s behind that door no one knows because no one comes back.

However, over the course of the week, a number of his old cases are reviewed, and with them, it is revealed that he knows far more about the city, its leaders, what is outside…

And a lot, lot more…

Behind the Green Door

  .

I was going to give the story the tag line, ‘a game show with a difference’.

But…

Then I remembered “The Running Man”, Arnold Swartzenegger running to save his life.  Not like that at all.

Yet…

I have been watching a number of TV shows of late that have a number of particularly interesting elements.

Silo – these people are living in an underground bunker, while the earth outside is unliveable.  Not sure why, but it doesn’t look good.

Fallout – same deal, underground bunkers are the in thing, but outside is recovering from a nuclear war, and lots of strange people.

Logan’s Run – this has the notion you can only live till 35.  I thought that was a little restrictive and made it 65

Oops…

Sorry, Soylent Green, it’s about the same age, or perhaps later but voluntary … but no, I’m not turning them into food.

I Robot – I liked the idea of a self-aware robot, but I decided to make it more life like than real life.  In other words, unless you knew it was a robot, you wouldn’t know

So…

Yes, I’m using the underground city trope but in my case it’s built inside a mountain and is only fifteen levels deep.

Outside, well, they had time to build underground city’s before all the volcanoes blew up, spewed ash and sulphur fumes, and a lot more, turning the earth into ice and an unbreathable and scorched barren environment that nearly killed everyone who couldn’t get to their bunkers.

Almost 200 years later, outside is almost liveable, but no one knows except those who run the cities, and after all this time, the original owner who saved a select population to repopulate the earth had morphed into the dictator, his power over everything in what might be called his kingdom, and causing growing discontent and the creation of a ‘resistance’ called the Brainstrust.

Now, that’s a lot of threads to tie together into a cohesive story.

So…

The protagonist is Michael.  He is an investigator, one of several.  Crime is minimal, but it occurs in his city of 25,000 people.

He is 65, and it’s time to retire.  He knows he gets a week with a guidance councellor to wrap up his life, leave a legacy, and go to the adjudication ceremony which will, after a jury determines what his outcome will be, hence the green door, the best possible.

What’s behind that door no one knows because no one comes back.

However, over the course of the week, a number of his old cases are reviewed, and with them, it is revealed that he knows far more about the city, its leaders, what is outside…

And a lot, lot more…