CE Savage: Blog

I hope you enjoy this chapter. Much of the lore surrounding the bow is true. this type of bow is still shot in traditional competition in the Corn Shoots held during Cherokee celebrations. I've made a couple myself using black locust as I don't have easy access to Osage Orange (Bois D'arc). They are truly efficient weapons not too dissimilar to English longbow and shoot to within a few feet a second of the fastest of modern recurve bows. Compound bows shoot much, much faster, but that's cheating :-) My brother knaps the arrow heads for me out of Rainbow Butte Obsidian. And I have several made out of the rainbow sheen subtype that comes only from that area (as far as I know).

Ferg is a great character as well and based on a conglomerate of Vietnam vets that I know, including an Uncle who used a Thompson as a LRRP.

Hope you are all enjoying the story!
Chapter 31

I just posted a revised chapter of Nexus Foundation as a military fiction short story. I've added some illustrations and made a few changes. I'm hoping to get a feel for whether military fiction is a viable option for me from a wider audience. Response here has been overwhelmingly positive. I have 3 chapters written in the next Nexus Book and I may do a military fiction spin off :-)
Angels Onboard

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

Ben has a very good morning! Maria and Lizzy get in on the fun for the first time!
Chapter 30

Well I didn't actually get stuck in tree, I got high centered across a tree that was downed across a snow Forest Service road.

I had gotten notice that in the last windstorm 6 of our tress had fallen across the community road that branches off from the main forest service road. This has been a real bad year for windstorms here in the PNW and particularly bad on the Olympic Peninsula where I have a little off grid cabin.

Anyhow my old 4wd crapped out last year so I was using my 4wd Ford Escape which actually performed pretty well in the foot deep snow until trying to cross over a small tree trunk across the road. I could see where several other vehicles had gone across it but forgot to consider that my neighbors vehicles are all 4wd trucks with much more clearance!

Anyhow 3 hours later I had managed to cut the tree away with a small handsaw (my chainsaws were in the cabin I was trying to get to!) and jack the vehicle up enough to clear. No damage except a little to the mud guard. Whew! Next time, I'm going to just stay at home and write!

The girls and Ben have an interesting planning session as they figure out what to do about the Chinese problem.

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