The pride I felt when I got the call: “San Orestes has surfaced at Foxglove.” Well…well I still don’t have the words. But my next thought, my next thought I remember quite well, it was, “Oh holy shit. I am the dog that caught the car!” My decades of...
There was little I could’ve done differently. The legal issues involved required things happen in a certain way that guaranteed the location of the recovery site become known. That being said…those bastards showed up awfully fast. The Memoirs of "Gentleman" Jack...
“I have often said that, if I am to die, it should be at the con of this mighty weapon of war, in service to my people. Yet as this armada charges into battle - what I am told will be the largest spaceborne battle in human history - I am deeply troubled. The...
Those were some of the hardest months of my life. The waiting. There’s a reason we don’t jump out into the deep dark - the same reason we balked at sailing far from shore. Oh, the doubt! All I had was a pile of math and a shadow against the...
Oh what tangled skeins we weave. I can’t figure out if the whole mess was the most insane coincidence in history or the most diabolical set-up imaginable. The Memoirs of "Gentleman" Jack Cartwright 23-24 June, WY602 - Demeter, Whistler Tomoe’s revelation...
Tomoe- Dinner got weird before dinner got weird. While Basil was in the middle of reciting his thesis on the societal impact of your debut album, Becca Sanders put her hand on your knee. She was holding her slate and the proximity transferred something to...
I’d like to say I didn’t hire them for this sort of thing. But at least two of them did this for a living for more than a third of their lives. The Memoirs of "Gentleman" Jack Cartwright 23 June, WY602 - Demeter, Whistler The crew listens to the call. Florence’s...
Rage is a funny thing. It can change a person. Maybe just for a moment. Or an hour. Maybe forever. I’ve done things in a rage. Sometimes good. Sometimes bad. But I eventually learned that righteousness doesn’t really...
All I gotta say is that it’s a good thing my friends weren’t armed. The Memoirs of "Gentleman" Jack Cartwright 23 June, WY602 - Demeter, Whistler Benny wakes Din as well and then escorts Din and Angelica down the stairwell to the ground floor where they see the body...