How a single event can change the course of one's life. This is the unusual story of how I got my second chance at love in my life and the women who helped me to get there.
A Time Scope Story (3) Jeb Connors and his ladies are now in the middle of an intergalactic drama. The Altairian spacecraft's Captain invoked Directive 1495. Now Jeb and his ladies, four everyday citizens of the US, have been declared the Altairian's Facilitators. They must chair a meeting to negotiate an agreement between Earth's governments and the Empire, which the Altairians represent. Without an agreement, Earth's people will be bombarded back to their caveman days.
Everyone who has been bullied dreams that, when they leave high school, everything will change. Everyone lives in hope and has likes feel good stories where the nerd gets the girl in the end. As we say at Victims Anonymous, "My name's Sam, and here's my story"
Violent storms are common in the Midwest. The one described here actually happened outside a little town I was staying in almost 20 years ago. It sounded like a train, the tornado axiom, if you will, but the straight-line winds cleared a windrow to stumps and killed several cattle (and I'm sure a lot of other critters). Friday I was in the shower, during a storm, when my muse spoke to me, and yes, when I looked out back, she was sitting on our boat.