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A 71-year-old man is living out the tag end of a rotten life in poverty. Glarney Fered is a systems analyst and a black belt in the self defense art of Loro. He's a very good systems analyst and can defeat men half his age in hand combat. However neither skill is of much use to a 71-year-old man. However,...

The three finally reach the western junction of three canyons. This is the dangerous part of the mission. Each man has to work down a canyon far enough to attract the Priests who will be out on patrol, because they will have noticed the landing. The Priests are masters of combat and, once each man...

The Admiral says, “As you know, the Grand Alliance is currently involved in a war with the Favellian Empire. The war isn't going well for the Grand Alliance and our resources are severely limited, at this time.” The admiral then leans forward and speaks in a low voice, “A patrol ship of the...

Bad Jim drives the big car down yet one more hot, dusty, Mexican road. Once again he had been followed, by people that he had hired. However, the hired people have done the job they were paid for and they're now on their way back to the US border. However, they have left behind them several hidden...

You wonder why your expensive educational system isn’t working? Is that what you were wondering, Bunky? Your minions hired the best in educational talent plus consultants and such. The experts that were hired had PhDs from prestigious schools and/or other impressive credentials. They also had a...

Lucifer drives the car that he has stolen as close as he can get to the school. Once he encounters the police barricades, he abandons the car and just walks away from it. Then he moves in, on foot, until the police would have stopped him. However, Lucifer simply moves back a bit, ducks behind a truck...

Justin prepares for an arbitration hearing to decide if he’ll die as a result of being a Kivosh. He begins to discover the power of the alien language he’s learning. Justin is then subjected to PCP charges of being a Kivosh and is able to convince the Arbitrator that the charges are based upon...

The next step in my operation requires a bit of explanation. If you want to attract moths, you need a bright light. If you want to attract hot rodders, you need something like my truck. My truck may look like junk to you, but it has a turbo 454 rat motor and a full race car suspension. It's a very...

Jim Holt was working as a programmer in San Diego. He was attacked by his supervisor and defended himself. As a result, almost no one in San Diego would hire him.He then lucked into a database programmer job with a company that turned out to be in the going out of business business. He made a lot...

As I progressed through my first year of Third School, I had little contact with the little girls and boys, who were my classmates. I did have to eat the charity lunch, to get enough nutrition to really work the Loro class. One day, I was ambushed by several of the little educational girls, They wanted...

“Admiral, I have a Mr. Jym Dyll to see you. He's a computer programmer, assigned to Command And Control. He claims it's a matter of some urgency. He says that he wants just five minutes of your time.” Admiral Dugan considers the matter for a moment. “Send him in. It had damn well better be a...

I ask the alien, “You then want me to travel to the planet in question, travel back in time and prevent the savage tribesmen from killing the king, of whom you speak.”The alien says, “Obviously.”I ask the alien, “How many tribesmen were in the group that killed the king?”The alien is obviously...

Glarney Fered has managed to assume a new identity as Jahn Loght. He has, under contract to the Primitive Culture Police, killed a dangerous criminal alien. The PCP wants to execute Jahn, because they know that he's a Kivosh and will try to acquire life force. Jahn escapes the PCP on a motorcycle...

Late on Wednesday nights/Thursday mornings, Rapid Romeo has been visiting a married lady whose husband is always gone Wednesday night. Rapid Romeo parks his car in the deep shadow under a tree on a side street, apparently to avoid advertising that his lady friend has a visitor. The deep shadow will...