Nomad (2023)
Nomad * * * Prologue: May 2022. Droning alone through the inky night flew "Coneflower", an immaculate Super Constellation. Its polished silver skin glistened like a mirror in the pale blue light of the moon. The curvaceous old...
Northbound (2017)
Northbound The air was uncomfortably sticky, dense with humidity. The muggy wind that rustled through the palm fronts took on an ominous feel as the sky slowly turned gray, the first hints of arrival of Hurricane Irma. There was a sense...
Dottie (2022)
Dottie Saturday morning was calm and sunny, a picture perfect sunrise over the sleepy town of Heath. The early morning air was still cool, and the sky took on a periwinkle color, with not a cloud in sight. Dew glistened in the lush green...
Analog Pt. I
Analog I The first teaser of light turned the eastern sky a very deep blue, just a few shades above black. Stars silently twinkled in the clear calm skies. All around, the landscape was white from recent snows, which faintly reflected the...
Hard Luck Woman
Hard Luck Woman October 2022. Cyrus marveled at his handiwork. Another lawn was neatly mowed, with a perfect diamond pattern of crisscrossed cut lines through it, and bushes trimmed up. The fall air was mild, and a cool...
Joey & The Flying Machine Pt. I (2015)
Joey & The Flying Machine * * * Prologue: Beads of rain streaked against the multi-pane canopy of the old Lockheed on short final to Newark-Heath. Coming in with her usual nose down droop, "Starship Connie", the venerable sixty-six year old...
Soar (2019)
Soar The Mosquito's Plexiglas nose distorted the view to the outside world. Lying prone, stuffed into the stubby nose was fifteen year old Alvin Paulo. The young Doberman admired the scenery from his perch, watching southern Canada...
Recollections (2021 Christmas Special)
Recollections Shady Acres was the name for the retirement community Nancy Barion lived in. Nestled amongst the snow was a small community of condominiums, all stone faced with brown roofs, neatly landscaped with crisscrossing roads....
Mav (Mavology I)
Mav Streetlights glowed orange in the dim light of dawn. In the quiet Krebs Edition of Newark, the snow that...
Highball (2021)
Highball High noon, high above the sun baked landscape of the southwest, lumbered an old DC-6, westbound, alone in the empty, cyan sky. Four radial engines burbled, driving the gleaming propellers that clawed the thinning air at ten...
When All Is Said And Done (Mavology III)
When All Is Said And Done Coshocton's sunrise, over the hills from the east, cast long shadows at Lake Park. The morning fog rose off the chilly ponds at the...
Mixed-Field (Mavology V)
Mixed-Field "WHELP, TIME TO UNFUCK THIS!" At five o'clock in the morning, in the midst of a rainstorm, Maverick...