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Aug
7

Voices From A Distant Star…Part Seven-The End

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Part Seven: Captain Keith, SSgt. McGowan, Cpl. Collins, Cpl. Stevens and Jones and the rest of Shadow Company just stood still. Some two to three hundred meters away, on a small ridgeline, stood their man in black, their alien friend. He was standing perfectly still and it was clear that he was surveying all that [...]

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Jul
15

Voices From A Distant Star…Part Six

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Part Six: In the logistics of war or battle, when many bullets, bombs, or missiles are fired simultaneously there is a reason, and it’s not for target practice or to waste munitions. Both Keith and McGowan knew this and while looking off in the distance Keith asked McGowan, “There was a purpose for all of [...]

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Jun
29

Voices From A Distant Star…Part Five

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Part Five: Since the team was so involved with the sight they beheld, they hadn’t noticed that the radio frequency channel that McGowan had last been on, had cleared and there was an unidentifiable sound coming from it. Cpl. Stevens heard it first and turned to the radio to get a better listen, and to [...]

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Jun
16

Voices From A Distant Star…Part Four

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Please note that changes were made in Part Three concerning the laser cannon which is actually called the ‘Dazzle Rifle.’ Since it is real Part Four will reflect that. It was my mistake for not completing the proper research. Part Four: It was decided that the rifle would be flown by helicopter down to Houston [...]

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Jun
13

Voices From A Distant Star…Part Three

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Station Chief Kevin Sacks knew as he sat at his desk with Pierceton and Alvarez on either side, that there were just so many variables they were facing. There is no training for an event like this. Oh sure, there’s talk and imaginations, there’s hypothesis and theory, and then there’s just the bull sessions that [...]

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Jun
8

Voices From A Distant Star…Part Two

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When Cap. Keith presented his report to his superior officer, Major Hendrick, it wasn’t quite what he expected. No big fan-fare, just a few innocuous questions and as a sidebar kind of joke asked what the Sgt. had been drinking. Actually the report had to wait…a new mission had come through the channels and the [...]

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May
19

Voices From A Distant Star

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A little while back Delyth, or Del, or WelshPixie had a post that was done in conjunction with someone else and both had entered their own versions of a short story, and I believe titled Voice, or Voices From A Distant Star. Well…I had been toying around for some time with a story of non-fiction [...]

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