RWMoranUSMCRet: Blog

This penname is actually me, but I have 17 other pennames on this site with over 1600 stories to date. Some of my pennames are well received by readers and some are not for various reasons. Calendar year 2020 was spent updating almost 300 of those stories that had been neglected due to a death in the family and illness of long duration. My original Harry Lime account which I had limited to 500 stories now has no yellow stripes to indicate an abandoned story. I still have about 70 of the 500 stories marked as incomplete and my next stage with this account is to conclude all seventy of those stories by the end of calendar year 2021. My other popular penname of Tony Sorrentino is in similar shape and I have recently added some new stories to that account. This account has one story that is yellow striped and I should explain the reason for that. I wrote this story with a Prologue in the early Fall of 2016 prior the the election that was all but certain to bring in the first female president to office. I had 8 chapters finished that I never published because the election went the opposite way and a non-political person was elected instead. That made my story moot because it was slanted with a military coup against the female president. My early comments were somewhat negative accusing me of being anti-feminist and anti-government. Strangely, some of what I had been predicting for the female president in 2019-2020 has come true for the actual elected president and the new president will come into office in two days with over 25,000 armed troops in Washington DC somewhat similar to my original story which was never published. I have decided to change my story to make it more red state vs blue state instead of the military against the liberal government. I will keep the characters in the prologue and change the scenario to match the actual events. I wish to express I am not anti-female nor am I anti-government having worked for government my entire adult life. Another new story that I have added to this account is called "Tomorrow, the World" which is a time travel story about a boy going back into time to a World War 2 Nazi Concentration Camp as a female detainee. My inital reaction from readers was to consider me as an anti-Semite which couldn't be further from the truth. I had to prohibit voting due to a clique of readers that slapped a rating of "1" on my story because of this perceived anti-Semitism. I have visited a number of former concentration camps in Germany and Poland and never ceased to be awed by the sanctity of the locations. I don't plan to go further than 12 chapters with this story but might add to it if the interest becomes more substantial.

Tales of the Old West. received dozens of messages about this new story. Apparently repeated several times in posting. I replaced the story with a new entry. My reading of the story did not disclose the repetition the comments mentioned. Hope it clears it up. Apologies for the loop that repeated the story. I will check it to make certain it is corrected. Thank you to all readers.

First I Must apologize for not updating one story that I am having some trouble in sorting out in my mind. I started to submit an update but then changed my mind because I was not happy with the direction. Anyway, this added story is in the Western genre with Much sex. It will be a series of short western stories about the "Old West". My sister and I would buy a pulp fiction western for about 15 cents and tear it in half in the middle because it was printed on a binder that had both stories starting at each end and meet in the middle. That way we could both read the book at the same time and then trade as we were both hungry readers and could not wait until the other was finished. She is 83 now and has 23 grandchildren.

Added chapter 12. I am resuming this story to completion in the next 30 days. I will then turn attention to the remainder of unfinished stories under this pen name. Thank you.

Finally finished Book 3 of the "Don't Sleep on the Subway" Trilogy. Now I am cleaning up the unfinished stories on this account starting with "Swimming in the Jury Pool". Just submitted chapter 9 and have outlined the remaining 9 chapters for a total of 18 chapters to this story. It is a story about a Criminal Trial and the hero is one of the Jurors. Always love these stories on TV or the movies and the story almost writes itself with the typical treatment of a modern courtroom confrontations.