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D I R E C T O R Y
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Chronicles of a Twin Earth, Sun, and Solar System Under Siege
Dedicated to Gabriel Tall Chief who first blew the horn and to M.G.Y. who couldn't hear it...
Vol. I, Fatal Convergence by Gabriel Tall Chief, Vol. II, Cloud and Avalanche by Gabriel Tall Chief, Vol. III, Battles of the DUBESOR (mostly on-line, with CHRONICLE FIFTY-NINE, "The Blind Man Who Could See," now available) by Gabriel Tall Chief, Vol. IV, Lost Chronicles, Mystery Chronicles, and Unchronicles by Horace Brave Scout, Vol. V, Beyond the Rapture by Horace Brave Scout, Vol. VI, Natal Convergence by Horace Brave Scout Vol. VII, Final Wars...Convergence at Orion by Horace Brave Scout
WELCOME TO THE TWIN EARTH(S)!
AND WELCOME TO FATAL CONVERGENCE!
Gabriel Tall Chief and Horace Brave Scout greet you as an honest friend and candidate for Retrostar challenger! This is a narrative by CP-challenged Gabriel and his cousin Horace that chronicles the struggles of humanity enlisted in a genius's computerized zero sum wargame against the global invasions of unknown superior entities. The Twin Earth chronicles record these battles with relentless waves of alien power which cause the reversal of technology and culture. Mankind sustains one attack only to be blasted by another. How many onslaughts will come? How will they appear? How long can people cope? Or can they? In today's society that has come to question the ability of world powers and leaders to solve catastrophic problems, the struggles of people on Earths I and II will speak to all those who are searching for a winning strategy in a seemingly no-win dilemma.
Our RetroStar Chroniclers:
Gabriel Tall Chief, a Lakota Indian prophet in Holland House, a private children's care center and hospice, Eden Prairie, Minnesota, in the 1990s. As his chronicles for Earth II show, years in advance of the developments he revealed that there would be a catastrophic tsunami, a world-wide network of terrorism and use of conventional explosives to disrupt government and society, the confrontation of the Arab bloc with the West involving the threat of chemical-biological WPM (Weapons of Pestilential Murder), a decline in NASA and the secret intelligence services, catastrophic weather changes, and the discovery of artifacts of Atlantis (much larger pyramids than Giza's have recently come to light in the former Yugoslavia); he also predicted a total collapse of computer-based Western society and the reversal of technology, not to mention, the reversal of cultural development, the rise and fall of a world government based on the European Union, and a Dutch takeover of America and the Caribbean as an Ice Age clamps down on most of the Northern Hemisphere.
Gabriel's disciple and dream-weaver and dream-rider, Horace Brave Scout, who gathered the "fragments" of the chronicles that remained after Gabriel died and made a great leap for mankind:
Back in the 1700s the Lakota got a little prophetic recording the tribe's events, foreseeing ANNO STELLAE 1912's Sinking of the Big Canoe:
Later, Horace Brave Scout journeyed back to the same event, and the others that followed it in quick succession:
The Kiowa, too, had their recorders:
The best cushy job in his life--working for Wolff and Harland in the Belfast shipyards--turned sour for Marty Yeager, so sour he drew a star that, one bitter-cold, black night, answered his call for bloody revenge from across the universe.
Did you get the impression from the calendars that Earth got into some kind of big trouble sometime around ANNO 1912? Your impression is absolutely true to the facts. But that was just the beginning--the first tiny baby step to what we now are facing. What is causing all this havoc and mayhem and unannounced terrorism in the Universe, the Solar System, and the Twin Earths that follows close on the sinking of the White Star Line's greatest ship? Nobody seems to know, and the right questions aren't even being asked--not for a long time anyway, thanks to the opposition of all-powerful vested interests, and by then it may be too late to save Earth(s) from the unknown Alien(s).
The Series of the Twin Earths is available on disk or can be electronically transmitted. The series consists of: RETRO STAR, Vol. 1, Fatal Convergence, Vol. 2, Cloud and Avalanche, Vol. 3. Battles of the DUBESOR, Vol. 4, Lost Chronicles; Part Two, Unchronicles, Vol. 5, Natal Convergence, Vol. 6, Beyond the Rapture, Vol. 7. Final Wars...Convergence at Orion
A "Letter to Agent, Outlines, and Overview and Marketing Strategy" of the Series":
Agent Letter, Outlines, Strategy
A Last Word Count in ANNO STELLAE 1997: 1,400,000
Outlines for VOLUME I, RETROSTAR:
CHRONICLES 1-24--WHAT'S IN THEM?
CHRONICLE ONE--WHAT'S IN IT?
CHRONICLES TWO TO SIX--WHAT'S IN THEM?
CHRONICLES SEVEN TO NINE--WHAT'S IN THEM?
CHRONICLES TEN TO TWELVE--WHAT'S IN THEM?
CHRONICLES EIGHTEEN TO NINETEEN--WHAT'S IN THEM?
CHRONICLES TWENTY TO TWENTY-THREE--WHAT'S IN THEM?
CHRONICLE TWENTY-FOUR--WHAT'S IN IT?
OUTLINES, CHRONICLES ONE TO FORTY-FIVE
OUTLINES, CHRONICLES FIFTY-EIGHT TO SIXTY TWO
Main Game Players (Earth II):
1. The Titans (Atlanteans) who lost Atlantis, on both Earths; then tried repeatedly to re-assert their rule over Earth II; they are a superhuman species that has turned vampire and lives almost indefinitely.
2. The Ten Stones of Fire (Starlike, Jeweline, Super-intelligent, Alien Entities), each performing as OP, or, Opposing Player, with the aim of conquering and destroying the Earths, I and II, and their respective universes.
3. Dr. Pikkard's Computer Wargame, represented by Wally, an electronically-created, free-roaming butterly who fights for humanity's survival against the Alien(s)
4. Human "Alphabetic" or A-Z Champions, also a subgroup called DUBESOR, or the Rosebud Champions
5. Yeshua, the A and Z, the Alpha and Omega, and the Aleph and Tau (also known as FC, the so-called "Forbidden Category")
EVEN BEFORE THE TITANIC'S SPECTACULAR MAIDEN VOYAGE DIVE TO HADES IN CHRONICLE ONE, SOME CLUES ARE GIVEN US. FOR INSTANCE: ON BOTH EARTH I AND EARTH II A CERTAIN CHOICE OF A YOUNG RUSSIAN ARISTOCRAT'S FIANCE (UPPER CLASS, KREMLIN-BORN AND BRED DAUGHTER OF A COURT PHYSICIAN, KNOWN LATER AS ONLY THE "OVERLY POSSESSIVE" WIFE OF THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNER COUNT LEO TOLSTOY) PREPARED THE WAY OF THE ALIEN ENTITY ON EARTH II AND THE DRAGON ON EARTH I: FOR THIS CHECK OUT SCENARIO I. THEN RETURN FOR SCENARIO II, WHICH REVEALS THE GREAT RECORDER HIMSELF, CHRONICLER GABRIEL TALL CHIEF. FINALLY, SCENARIO III, WHERE A KREMLIN STARETZ REVEALS YEARS BEFOREHAND WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE ILL-STARRED 20TH CENTURY OF BOTH EARTHS, WHEN SOMETHING WORSE THAN THE H5N 1 STRAIN OF THE BIRD FLU VIRUS IS INFECTING THE TWINS, SO THAT THEIR INTERTWINED FATES ARE ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO SEPARATE FROM EACH OTHER.
(Chronicles Completed unmarked; Chronicles Not Yet Available Marked IP, In Progress)
Volume I Fatal Convergence
Retrostar Contents
Scenario I: CHRONICLE OF SOFYA'S CHOICE
Scenario II: CHRONICLE OF THE MEDICINE SPEAR
Scenario III: CHRONICLE OF THE KREMLIN STARETZ--EARTH I
CHRONICLE ONE, A. S. (ANNO STELLAE, Year of the Star) 1912 1. The Belfast Colossus 2. Night of the Tornnarsuk
PART I, CHRONICLE ONE, VOL. I, RETROSTAR
3. "What, have we hit anything?"
PART II, CHRONICLE ONE, VOL. I, RETROSTAR
4. Pursuit 5. Mystery Stone
PART III, CHRONICLE ONE, VOL. I, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE TWO, A. S. 1918 Visions from Space
CHRONICLE TWO, VOL. I, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE THREE, A. S. 1924 1. The East Gate 2. Carter's Pill
PARTS 1-2, CHRONICLE THREE, VOL. I, RETROSTAR
3. Carter's Royal Sphinx Turkish Cigarettes 4. G-EAOU
PARTS 3-4, CHRONICLE THREE, VOL. I, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE FOUR, A. S. 1939 1. The Polar King 2. Convergence in Tinsel Town
CHRONICLES FOUR AND FIVE, VOL. I, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE FIVE, A. S. 1967 1. "Act of God" 2. Letter to ANNO 5931 3. The River of Time's End
CHRONICLE SIX, A. S. 1969 1. The Chevy Chase Inscription 2. A Different Drum 3. Signature of the Drum 4. Miracle at Project M
CHRONICLE SEVEN, A. S. 1985 1. "Switched off?" 2. Epitaph for a Lost Ship
CHRONICLE EIGHT, A. S. 1986 1. "Roll Program." (Challenger) 2. STS 51-L Sequence of Main Events 3. Dear Mr. President:
CHRONICLES SIX, SEVEN, AND EIGHT, VOL. I, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE NINE, A. S. 1987 1. Black Tuesday II 2. Spackle in the Sky with Diamonds 3. Tempest in a Teapot? 4. Mouse or Lion? 5. "Now you see it..." 6. Skylab II: the Year of Sol 7. Enigma of the Gleba 8. Catamaran and Mouse 9. Last of the Great American Icons
CHRONICLE NINE, VOL. I, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE TEN, A. S. 1994 1. "And so if he sign rosebud. It just a game." 2. "A lot of 'mind games,' yeah?" 3. Kamamoto's Mind Game 4. Butterfly's StartUp
CHRONICLE TEN, VOL. I, RETROSTAR
5. "It's All in the Frequency."
"It's All in the Frequency," CHRONICLE TEN, VOL. I, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE ELEVEN, A. S. 1996- 1. Flyby of the Blue Centaur 2. Hantsbo's Main Chance
CHRONICLE ELEVEN, VOL. I, RETROSTAR
3. The Thief in the Night (Earth I) THE THIEF IN THE NIGHT, VOL. I, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE TWELVE, A. S. 2024 1. A Question of Any 2. A Matter Under Advisement: The Triliths of Orion--Part I
CHRONICLE TWELVE, PART I, RETROSTAR
A Matter Under Advisement: The Triliths of Orion--Part II CHRONICLE TWELVE, PART II, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE THIRTEEN, A. S. 2113 1. A Childish Phase 2. Reformed 3. Q.U.I.P.
CHRONICLE THIRTEEN, VOL. I, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE FOURTEEN, A. S. 2145 1. Fresh Ice 2. The Ultimate Weapon 3. The Unstoppable Chill 4. Nils the Red
CHRONICLE FOURTEEN, VOL. I, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE FIFTEEN, A. S. 2146 1. Head #41 2. Plots and Counterplots
CHRONICLE FIFTEEN, VOL. I, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE SIXTEEN, A. S. 2155 1. "First Citizen" 2. Red Bladed II, Retrenchment, and the Mole
CHRONICLE SIXTEEN, VOL. I, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE SEVENTEEN, A. S. 2165 1. More Crowns for the Emperor 2. Convergence of Kings
CHRONICLE SEVENTEEN, VOL. I, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE EIGHTEEN, A. S. 2170 1. Convergence in Greece: Beyond the Roche Limit 2. Marching Trees 3. Workin' for the Man 4. First the Foie Gras, Then... 5. Old is In, New is Out! 6. Another Domecraft Scratched! 7. Homecoming to Chillingsworth-opolis! 8. A Mongolian Interruption 9. Bisbee on Alert! 10. Chillingsworth's Zombie
PART ONE, CHRONICLE EIGHTEEEN, VOL. I, RETROSTAR
11. Crisis Control at the Olde Guildhall 12. "Sorry, folks, no Tube today" 13. Visions and Portents 14. Last Breakfast at the Chillingsworthies 15. Fleeing Birds, Floundering Fishes 16. Chillingsworth's Contingency Plan 17. Chillingsworth's Personal Test 18. Black Death II 19. Our Lady of the Angels--Vacancy 20. Palms, More Palms, and Fire Jaguars
PART TWO, CHRONICLE EIGHTEEN, VOL. I, RETROSTAR
21. "What, has the plumbing been hit too?" 22. "Hull bloody world's fallin' apart!" 23. Final ESCape 24. 19.9999999999999...Chthonic Complications 25. The Arctic Fox 26. Seemingly Doomed 27. Death of the Rose? 28. Counterclockwise 29. Birdman of Our Lady's 30. Cause: Unknown
PART THREE, CHRONICLE EIGHTEEN, VOL. I, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE NINETEEN, A. S. 2171... 1. Hermon's Folly 2. Crazy John from Ivujivik
CHRONICLE NINETEEN, VOL. I, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE TWENTY, A. S. 2251 1. Ice and Fire 2. Singer of the Stone
CHRONICLE TWENTY, VOL. I, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE TWENTY-ONE, A. S. 2382 1. A Plain Dutch Boy 2. The Good Ship Argo 3. A Mill Worker! 4. Shafted CHRONICLE TWENTY-ONE, VOL. I, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE TWENTY-TWO, A. S. 2390-91 1. "Work, woman!" 2. Wooden Wings 3. The Big Little Apple
CHRONICLE TWENTY-TWO, VOL. I, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE TWENTY-THREE, A. S. 2392 1. Leamis's Good Turn 2. The Mountain Climbed! 3. The Contract 4. Dendrochronology--the Professor's Folly 5. Just What the Doctor Ordered 6. Decline in a Dutch Paradise? 7. Vent and Rip
PART 1, CHRONICLE TWENTY-THREE, RETROSTAR
8. The Perfect Getaway 9. "A River flowed out of Eden..." 10. "Discoverer of Lost Atlantis" 11. Cave of Cannibals 12. Visitors to Earth 13. The Mary Celeste Avenger 14. "We three kings of Orient are..."
PART 2, CHRONICLE TWENTY-THREE, RETROSTAR
15. The Paper Chase 16. Outings with Anne 17. The Kilpaison Female Temperament 18. King of Ellis 19. The Break 20. The Treasure Room 21. The Professor's Wargame
PART 3, CHRONICLE TWENTY-THREE, RETROSTAR
22. The Gray Fox Speaketh 23. "Was it in his contract?" 24. A Dream and a Face 25. Atlantis--will she ever come? 26. Four Cents Saved, Four Cents Earned 27. "Low bridge! Everybody down!" 28. Rebirth of the Atlantis
PART 4, CHRONICLE TWENTY-THREE, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE TWENTY-FOUR, A. S. 2393 1. Convergence in Wioteheka Wi 2. Fool's Day 3. A Good Deal 4. Losers, Weepers 5. Fritz the Farmer 6. Cloaks and Daggers 7. Escape of Department 13 8. No Ordinary Day 9. The Tramp CHRONICLE TWENTY-FOUR, PART I, VOL. I, RETROSTAR
10. Dr. Pikkard's Papers 11. Van Donkt to the Rescue 12. A Charmed Life? 13. Black Tuesday III 14. Fritz, Loti, the Domine, and Plenty of Nothin' 15. Choices 16. Dead Man's Cheque 17. Star of Jamaica 18. The Trouble with Wednesday II 19. Battle of the Atlantis PART TWO, CHRONICLE TWENTY-FOUR, VOL. I, RETRO STAR
20. "Ship up!" 21. Reunion Amidst the Stars 22. "Nach Palestine, Reno nicht!" 23. The Open Porthole 24. "Ship down!" 25. Ship Across! 26. Taken for a Ride 27. The Mystery Youth 28. Second Thoughts 29. Visitations in the Night 30. Angels! 31. A New Olson? 32. "Who will stop it?" 33. Hodgkins the Magnificent 34. "I've failed!" 35. The Plain People 36. Anna Invicta 37. Pieter and the Blue Centaur
PART THREE, CHRONICLE TWENTY-FOUR, VOL. I, RETROSTAR
(Chronicles completed: unmarked)
Volume II Cloud and Avalanche
Contents Book One
CHRONICLE TWENTY-FIVE, A. S. (ANNO STELLAE, Year of the Star) 2415 Breath of the Red Star
CHRONICLE TWENTY-SIX, A. S. 2433 Star Song
CHRONICLES TWENTY-FIVE AND TWENTY-SIX, VOL. II, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE TWENTY-SEVEN, A. S. 2444 1. Three "Pearls" 2. The Dragon and the Dragoman 3. Farewells 4. The Liverpool Express 5. The Sphinx and Lady Anne 6. Letter of Marque 7. The Enchanted Islands 8. The Compleat Angler 9. Anne's Discovery 10. Pluto's Ball 11. Deliverance 12. The Reverend's Journey 13. Nemesis III 14. The Devil Man's Medicine 15. La Calaca 16. The Mail Bag from La Boca 17. Change of Administration
CHRONICLE TWENTY-SEVEN, VOL. II, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE TWENTY-EIGHT, A. S. 2457 1. Diana's Expedition 2. Dr. Celman and the Papers 3. The New Atlantis 4. Artiste with a Gun 5. The Captain's Cross 6. Artiste at Work! 7. The Scarlet Woman 8. Madmen and Savages 9. Island of the Moon 10. Jaguars, and Glyphs
PART I, CHRONICLE TWENTY-EIGHT, VOL. II, RETROSTAR
11. Day One 12. Day Two 13. Day Three 14. Papadoc 15. Dzong kunu! 16. The Shrine in the Square 17. Celman's Escape 18. John Canoe's Discovery 19. The Fatal Asterisk 20. Convergence on the Lago Negro 21. Homecoming in 3C 295 PART II, CHRONICLE TWENTY-EIGHT, VOL. II, RETROSTAR
Book Two
CHRONICLE TWENTY-NINE, A. S. 2458 1. Much Ado About a Key 2. Much Ado About Moons
Chronicle Twenty-Nine included in link below
CHRONICLE THIRTY, A. S. 2460 Terra 2, Alpha Centauri
CHRONICLES TWENTY-NINE and THIRTY, VOL. II, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE THIRTY-ONE, A. S. 4130 The Blue Chair
CHRONICLE THIRTY-TWO, A. S. 4133 The Sixth Hour
CHRONICLE THIRTY-THREE, A. S. 4146 The Dreaded Day
CHRONICLES THIRTY-ONE, THIRTY-TWO, THIRTY-THREE, VOL. II, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE THIRTY-FOUR, A. S. 4148 1. "Have you ever heard such nonsense?" 2. The Power of Life and Death 3. Thirty Silver Pieces 4. A True Diplomat!
CHRONICLE THIRTY-FOUR, VOL. II, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE THIRTY-FIVE, A. S. 4149 1. A Dish of Rue 2. "God go with you, dear Auntie!" 3. One Major Hindrance 4. Higher Ground 5. The Trial
CHRONICLE THIRTY-FIVE, VOL. II, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE THIRTY-SIX, A. S. 4150 1. Street Women 2. The Golden Bowl 3. The Miracle 4. Noahdiah's Daughter 5. The Widow's Mites 6. Convergence on the Viaduct 7. Tower Ghosts 8. The Lustration 9. Falling Towers 10. The Tablets of Destiny
CHRONICLE THIRTY-SEVEN, A. S. 5909 The Tower of Eder
CHRONICLE THIRTY-EIGHT, A. S. 5913 The Road to Enaim
CHRONICLES THIRTY-SEVEN and THIRTY-EIGHT, VOL. II, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE THIRTY-NINE, A. S. 5918 1. The Many-Colored Robe 2. The Pit of Dothan 3. Twenty Pieces of Silver 4. The Iron Collar 5. The Wilderness of Shur 6. Visions of the Night 7. The Beak of Nebel 8. City of the Moon 9. The Cobra's Den 10. Thief in the Night 11. A Fruitful Bough
CHRONICLE THIRTY-NINE, VOL. II, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE FORTY, A. S. 5920 Woes
CHRONICLE FORTY-ONE, A. S. 5923 Joseph the Steward!
CHRONICLES FORTY AND FORTY-ONE, VOL. II, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE FORTY-TWO, A. S. 5926 1. War! 2. The Gold Harp 3. Daughter of the Desert 4. The Voice of the Pomegranate 5. The Scorpion's Sting 6. Sleepless in Paradise 7. The Road to Babelen 8. The King and the Prophetess 9. Angel of Death 10. The Gray Dove 11. Horsemen in Pairs
CHRONICLE FORTY-TWO, VOL. II, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE FORTY-THREE, A. S. 5927 1. Rising Waters 2. The Death of Heaphes 3. More Falling Gods 4. Into the Pit 5. "Will you and your god slay him too?"
CHRONICLE FORTY-THREE, VOL. II, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE FORTY-FOUR, A. S. 5929 1. Signet, Cord, and Staff 2. Joseph's Prison 3. "Forbidden Vases"
PART I, CHRONICLE FORTY-FOUR, VOL. II, RETROSTAR
4. Judah's Return
PART II, CHRONICLE FORTY-FOUR, VOL. II, RETROSTAR
5. Two Prodigals 6. Zenobia's Return 7. A Ring of Red and Black 8. The Lowest Pit
PART III, CHRONICLE FORTY-FOUR, VOL. II, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE FORTY-FIVE, A. S. 5931 1. The Per-aa Dreamed 2. The Per-aa's Secret 3. The Ka of Narmer 4. Doors of Brass
PARTS 1-4, CHRONICLE 45, VOL. II, RETROSTAR
5. The White Lady PART 5, CHRONICLE FORTY-FIVE
6. Tamar's Children 7. Imhotep's Signet 8. The Sinking Ship 9. M.G.Y. Calling PARTS 6-9, CHRONICLE FORTY-FIVE, VOL. II, RETROSTAR
Book Three
CHRONICLE FORTY-SIX, A. S. 6098 1. A Second OP? 2. Pher's New Army 3. The Two Serpents, Part I
CHRONICLE FORTY-SIX, VOL. II, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE FORTY-SEVEN, A. S. 6286 1. Waters of Blessing 2. Mosheh's Fire-Chariots 3. The Rod of a Ready Deliverer 4. The Pen of a Ready Writer
CHRONICLE FORTY-SEVEN, VOL. II, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE FORTY-EIGHT, A. S. 6679 1. Lightning over Kedesh 2. Under the Tamar Tree 3. Tinker's Nail
CHRONICLE FORTY-EIGHT, VOL. II, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE FORTY-NINE, A. S. 6688 Greener Pastures
CHRONICLE FIFTY, A. S. 6699 The Gleaner CHRONICLES FORTY-NINE and FIFTY, VOL. II, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE FIFTY-ONE, A. S. 6700 Two Wives and an Attitude CHRONICLE FIFTY-ONE, VOL. II, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE FIFTY-TWO, A. S. 7074 1. The Dove 2. The Fish 3. The Ship 4. The Worm and the Vine
CHRONICLE FIFTY-THREE, A. S. 7504 The Topmost Twig CHRONICLES FIFTY-TWO and FIFTY-THREE, VOL. II, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE FIFTY-FOUR, A. S. 7506 1. The Lost Dream 2. The Colossus 3. The Fourth Man 4. "O God, how long?" CHRONICLE FIFTY-FOUR, VOl. II, RETROSTAR
(Chronicles Completed unmarked)
Volume III Battles of the DUBESOR
Book One
CHRONICLE FIFTY-FIVE, A. S. (ANNO STELLAE, Year of the Star) 7537 Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin CHRONICLE FIFTY-FIVE, VOL. III, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE FIFTY-SIX, A. S. 8033 Iskander's Secret CHRONICLE FIFTY-SIX, VOL. III, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE FIFTY-SEVEN, A. S. 8507
Notes on Algol, Gorgons, and Nergul
1. U the Dire Knight PART ONE, CHRONICLE FIFTY-SEVEN, VOL. III, RETROSTAR
2. Lords of Ahpikondia PART TWO, CHRONICLE FIFTY-SEVEN, VOL. III, RETROSTAR
3. Molu and the Gorgons PART THREE, CHRONICLE FIFTY-SEVEN, VOL. III, RETROSTAR
4. 02K05 00340 00000000000150000000001000000010 5. Peninah's Comeuppance PART FOUR, CHRONICLE FIFTY-SEVEN, VOL. III, RETROSTAR
6. Molu and the Gorgons, Part II 7. The East Gate Regained? PART FIVE, CHRONICLE FIFTY-SEVEN, VOL. III, RETROSTAR
Book Two
CHRONICLE FIFTY-EIGHT, A. S. 8732 1. Chiron's PQ Plan 2. Elektra's Comeuppance BOOK TWO, CHRONICLE FIFTY-EIGHT, VOL. III, RETROSTAR
3. Mink and the Flying Horse 4. Uwe's Last Farewell 5. The Wandering Paiute PART TWO, CHRONICLE FIFTY-EIGHT, VOL. III, RETROSTAR
6. Wally and the Nano-Queen 7. Michael's Last Trump PART THREE, CHRONICLE FIFTY-EIGHT, VOL. III, RETROSTAR
(Chronicles in Progress marked)
Book Three
THE LOST CHRONICLE, A. S. 9117 The Goatherd Who Turned King BOOK THREE, VOL. III, THE GOATHERD WHO TURNED KING, Retro Star
Book Four
CHRONICLE FIFTY-NINE, A. S. 10, 272 The Blind Man Who Could See BOOK FOUR, CHRONICLE FIFTY-NINE, VOL. III, RETROSTAR
BOOK FIVE WILL SOON BE ON-LINE, SO PLEASE RETURN
CHRONICLE SIXTY, A. S. 10,282 1. The Shadow Line 2. The Lacquered Wardrobe 3. A Pilgrim's Heart BOOK FIVE, PART ONE, CHRONICLE SIXTY, VOL. III, RETROSTAR
4. Talulah's Star IP 5. South by Southwest IP 6. The Gray Wolf IP 7. Lux ex Tenebris IP
CHRONICLE SIXTY-ONE, A. S. 10,995 1. Five Stars for the Long Road
CHRONICLE SIXTY-ONE, PART I, VOL. III, RETROSTAR
2. ARGO Unrequited 3. Pilgrim, Bluebird, Starboy CHRONICLE SIXTY-ONE, VOL. III, PART II-III, RETROSTAR
Part III, IP
CHRONICLE SIXTY-ONE, VOL. III, PART III CONTINUED, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE SIXTY-ONE, VOL. III, PART IV, AND CONCLUSION
4. Zu the Birdman IP 5. The Tiger of Hagi IP 6. The White Stone
Book Five
Just as a classical Greek epic does not begin at the beginning but in the middle, so the Retrostar chronicles of Gabriel Tall Chief and Horace Brave Scout do not end at the ending--no, they finish exactly here: This is the Last Piece of the Whole Puzzle, Ariadne's Thread for the Labyrinth, Alexander's Sword for the Gordian Knot, the Checkmate, the Royal Flush, the Golden Key in Quinn's search for the meaning locked into his father's sand painting game...all rolled into one grand finale, one classical drama's catharsis and denouement, and...you must join the ARGO and decide for yourself if you really want to find what all men want but are mostly seeking in the wrong places:
CHRONICLE SIXTY-TWO, A. S. 10,999 IP Voyage of the ARGO V: Quest of the Cybernauts PARTS I & II, CHRONICLE SIXTY-TWO, VOL. III, RETROSTAR
EPILOGUE I EPILOGUE I, "LAST TO LEAVE...," EPILOGUE FOR VOLUMES I-III, VOL. III, RETROSTAR
(Chronicles Completed unmarked, Chronicles In Progress marked)
Volume IV Lost Chronicles, Secret Chronicles, Mystery Chronicles, Unchronicles, Twin Chronicles with Appendix by Horace Brave Scout
Book One CHRONICLE OF THE INUNDATION, A. A. S. "Year of the Metamorph" How a small, big-winged, thirsty creature with only a sip of water on its tiny mind set in motion events that created the lake-like Mediterranean Sea--the vital body of water around which most of the earliest and greatest civilizations of mankind were birthed.
CHRONICLE OF THE INUNDATION, VOL. IV, RETRO STAR
SECRET CHRONICLE A. A. S. (Ante Anno Stellae, Before Year of the Star) 100,000 The Flamesteeds of Ara How the cherubic magistrate and Mercy-seat guardian, Uran, joined forces with Michael against the take-over of Universe I by the rebel archangel. How the other two cherubs fought to quarantine the equal threat to Universe II that was posed by the corrupted star-stones.
SECRET CHRONICLE, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE CRYSTAL BRIDGE A. A. S. 9, 500, Battle For the Bridge How Lucifer, the fallen archangel, fails to seize the vital Gate of Ara, which controls access to the twin Universes; how he makes up part of this loss with vindictive destruction, and goes on to attack the new species the Enemy has planted on what he sees as his exclusive domain, a planet in his allotted sector, Universe I. How going up against Michael a third time, for the control of the interplanetary bridge connecting Earth I and II, he is worsted by the loyalist forces commanded by Michael. It is a terribly humiliating and painful setback (almost as bad as being thrown out of heaven by the triumphant Michael and his armies!). Yet human beings, taken in by Lucifer getting them to rebel against the Enemy, remain his to control and manipulate any way he chooses. He has succeeded in stamping out all fearers of God, except for one man named Noah. That one man should be no problem, Lucifer reasoned. What could one man do against him? He, Lord Lucifer, had won the battle for Earth I--or so it seemed to him.
CHRONICLE OF THE CRYSTAL BRIDGE, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE STAR ORACLES (EARTH I) A. A. S. "The Day of Enoch" The Man Who Was Taken Up How Enoch, son of Lamech, cultivated a relationship with the Most High God when most men of his generation worshipped many gods and lived immorally and violently. How the Most High God was so pleased with Enoch that He reached down one day and took Enoch bodily into heaven, but before that day Enoch was given divine signs that signified the meanings God had put in the stars to guide all men back to the truth and to warn them of the coming of His Son, the Dragon-Destroyer.
CHRONICLE OF THE STAR ORACLES, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE HARVEST TIME, Part I A. A. S. 3,301, Year of the Sky Reaper, Harvest Time How no serpent can change its stripes and how a simple shepherd-farmer is confronted with an Atlantean plasma-harvesting expedition. How Lime Flower, Yew Tree's wife, and family coped with being dragged off from their village to slavery in Crooked Tree Village far down from the mountains and on the river plain, and how they were rescued by a God who was unlike all other gods of woods and trees and stones and brooks they had known and worshipped. VOL. IV, CHRONICLE OF THE SKY REAPER, PART I, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE A. A. S. 1200, Voyage of the Argonauts How the vampire race of the Atlanteans, working behind the petty geopolitics of humanity, sought to stop Jason of Iolkos from gaining the Golden Fleece and returning a hero to Greece. All it needed was such a man of this caliber to unify the whole country of Achaea (at present a hodge-podge of rival city-states and kingdoms ruled by lesser men), which would then be a major setback to the expansion of Ilios and its snake goddess, the major player the Atlanteans had chosen to promote in their grand strategy to regain an Earth II recontructed to their liking.
PART I, CHRONICLE OF THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
PART II, CHRONICLE OF THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
PART III, CHRONICLE OF THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
PART IV, CHRONICLE OF THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
PART V, CHRONICLE OF THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
PART VI, CHRONICLE OF THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE TWO SERPENTS, PART II A. A. S. 1230, The Horse of Tenedos How two serpents were released to cause havoc in the Upper World. How two ways of life, two sets of gods, two worlds collided at Ludim's chief city, Ilios, later called Troy (Troas) by the Romans. How the poets, chiefly Homer, celebrated the conflict in terms that glorified the heroes on both sides and capitalized on the abduction of a beautiful queen that supposedly sparked the conflict. How Atlanteans paid a prior visit with a burning "stone" that could have, if finished in construction and put to great effect in the war, have finished the Achaeans in their bid for mastery of the ancient world centered on the Aegean. How, then, the Two Serpent-Armed Goddess was deposed in the bud by the "Horse of Tenedos" and a new world was free to take shape. How these vital affairs played out in the coming of Yeshua, and the Good News of that coming was able to be spread universally by the Greek language (not the mother-goddess's language of the Ludim, which would always be spoken locally, not universally like Greek).
CHRONICLE OF THE TWO SERPENTS, PART II, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF HORSES OF ISRAEL, A. A. S. 984, The Budding Sopetet How a prophet of Israel, destined to be one of her greatest, was born in Tishbe of Gilead, a village so small it was a flyspeck on the map, and how he suffered early hardship and rough training in Life's School of Hard Knocks, and how he came to confront the king of Israel, Ahab, because he took a foreign, idol-worshipping wife from the wicked heathen city of Sidon.
CHRONICLE OF THE HORSES OF ISRAEL, PART II, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF LION-KING, A. A. S. 686, The Wounded Lion, How the king of Assyria, though he was styled "King of the Universe," was badly mauled in a campaign against a tiny kingdom called Judah, and how he returned home without his army (which had mysteriously perished in camp in a single night) only to find his country stirring with rebellion against his tyrannical and disastrous rule.
CHRONICLE OF THE LION-KING, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE VISIONS OF DIVINE MEMORY A. A. S. 537 How the prophet of Israel, grown old, took ship from Joppa to the Iktis, the port city of the Isles of Tin in the Extremity of the West, taking not only his loyal servant Uthai but the Good News of the holy name and saving goodness and almighty power of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to idol-worshipping tribes who burnt people as sacrifices in tree-high haystacks. How the prophet shared with them his divine visions of things and worlds to come.
CHRONICLE OF THE VISIONS OF DIVINE MEMORY, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF LIMERICK II A. A. S. 270 A Cruise on Joseph's Canal How two Irish Celts from the Gaelic Kingdom of Limerick serving as mercenary soldiers in Ptolemy II's army encountered a late and fading memory of a Great Deliverer who kept the land of Kem, Mizraim, the Land of Red and Black, from starving to death in the "Years of the Fat Hyena" when all crops failed for seven years in a row and the hyenas and other scavangers grew fat on the multitude of dead and dying animals and even the bodies of people left unburied in abandoned villages.
CHRONICLE OF LIMERICK II, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF CLEOPATRA A. A. S. 31, The Horse of Antirrhodus and the Burning Eye How the last ruler of the royal Macedonian line of Ptolemy in the Land of the Red and Black sought to stop Caius Julius Caesar Octavianus, the grand-nephew of the late Julius Casesar of Roma, from seizing her kingdom so that she could reign as Empress over East and West, with herself deified as the Goddess Isis's incarnation, thus heading the world's state religion. How she retrieved from the world-famed Museum of Alexandria's archives certain old books that contained plans for a super-weapon invented by a race of "Orthrysians"--reputed to be demi-gods from the distant past who had paid her predecessor, the Macedonian pharaoh Ptolemaeus II Philadelphus a state visit with this all-powerful weapon as a "gift" in exchange for certain concessions.
CHRONICLE OF CLEOPATRA, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE STAR OF THE ROSE A. S. 4 -, Wan Li and the Star-Men of the Zoziash How Wan Li, a wealthy merchant of the kingdom of Kuo in the lands of the East, met a prince of stargazers, and together in a caravan they followed the star of the coming King of the Jews--which first appeared in the Sign of the Fish set in the heavens by the Creator of heaven, the earth, and all things and creatures int them; how they met the wicked king in the West, and yet found the young Child born King of kings and Lord of lords, Whose star led them to his house in the little town of Bethlehem of Ephratah-Judaea; how Wan Li and the Star-men worshipped the divine Child, and gave Him royal gifts, then returned secretely without telling the wicked king the whereabouts of the precious Child, and how all their lives were changed forever by the mere sight and Presence of the holy Child.
CHRONICLE OF THE NATAL STAR A. S. 1-30, The Naked Brave How the Light-Bringer, Lucifer the Covering Cherub who hovered above the Throne of God and kept the Stones of Fire, lost his place in heaven after seeking to be Supreme Deity and was cast out by Michael the archangel and his loyalist forces. How the Messiah, only Son of the Great Father Spirit, leaving the Great Council Fire to live and fight for his Father on Earth (lost to Lucifer and his allies), stripped off his skin and scalp, leaving them shining in his Father's sky-lodge, and how like a star they went seeking for him on Earth.
Reunion
How the Messiah, the Bright Morning Star, was rejoined by His stellar glory after his great Victory, and how one of the thieves crucified beside him on a cross shared in the Yeshuas' incomparable splendor.
CHRONICLE OF THE RIBBON-BEARER A. S. 30, Part I, Tsedahh's Quest How heaven's most insignificant angel was given the task of finding the Universe's most significant tree.
CHRONICLE OF THE RIBBON-BEARER, PART I, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
2. Secret Sharers How two secret disciples of Yeshua, the condemned and executed Messiah-claimant, were unwitting participants in the greatest drama of the ages, and how one, Joseph of Arimathea, took the news of that Event to the Earth's far corner, the coasts and isles of Britain, and how he gave a lasting apostolic blessing to safeguard the land against heathen barbarians after his departure.
3. A New Name How Tsedahh the Ribbon-Bearer retrieved the ribbon and after loosing it above Jerusalem was appointed Keeper of the Tree of Life for eternity, and how he received a new name and a glorious, bright make-over.
CHRONICLE OF THE RIBBON-BEARER, PART III, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE SUFFERING SERVANT A. S. 33, The Forsaken Stream How Yeshua took a towel and wash basin of the lowest household slave and taught his disciples what the Messiahship truly meant on the eve of his trials before the Jewish Council, Pilatus Pontius, and Tetrarch King Herod. CHRONICLE OF THE SUFFERING SERVANT, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF SAUL IN SELA A. S. 35, The Eighth Pillar of Wisdom How the budding apostle (who would change his name to Paulus) received a revelation about God's grace directly from the Source, and how it changed his entire perspective on life and the course of his life, not to mention the direction and whole ethos and spirituality of Western Civilization and even the world at large.
CHRONICLE OF SAUL IN SELA, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE THIRD HEAVEN A. S. 49 How two apostles, Paul and Barnabus, reached Lystra in Asia Minor with the Good News of Yeshua, but were hideously stoned when the people, incited by anti-missionaries, turned against them after first proclaiming them gods, Zeus and Mercury (Barnabus called Zeus because of his substantial size and Paulus, being small, called Mercury). How in death (for Paulus was killed) Paulus was taken to view heaven, but was restored to life and sent back to finish his mission on Earth by Yeshua Himself.
CHRONICLE OF THE THIRD HEAVEN, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE HORSE OF TROAS A. S. 50, Philippi Calling How Paulus and two companions, Silas and Lucanus, all believers in Yeshua the Messiah, paused at Troas Alexandria on the coast of Asia Minor (Ionia) to rest and pray. How this epic site where two world-views and their respective gods and goddesses had fought for supremacy 1,180 years before became an even more epic launching point for Paulus's Gospel, for from this jumping-off point to all of Europe a new world was launched at the same time that would overturn the seemingly all-powerful, pagan Roman Empire itself.
CHRONICLE OF THE HORSE OF TROAS
CHRONICLE OF PAULUS AND SILAS IN PRISON A. S. 50, Birth of a Church and a New World How Paulus received a vision in the port of Alexandria Troas (a city near ancient Troy on the NW coast of Asia Minor) of a man of Macedonia urgently calling him to cross over with the Gospel, and how he and Silas were treated in Phillipi of Macedonia and how the city's jailor and his whole family were converted, which was the start of not only a new church but a new world.
CHRONICLE OF PAUL AND SILAS IN PRISON, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
UNCHRONICLE OF THE CHAINED APOSTLE, A. S. 63, Paulus in Britain How Paulus and Silas journeyed to the Estremeity of the West, also known as the Isles of Tin, to bring the good news of Christus to the pagan (and sometimes Jewish) inhabitants. CHRONICLE OF THE WEARY ANGEL A. S. 65 "Welcome, O Sweet Angel of Death" How Paulus, summoned back to court in Rome by the magistrate (a cynical man and Roman pragmatician) handling his case, found the innocent man somehow deserving of death, and how the condemned apostle greeted death by beheading in such a way that the unjust judge could hardly believe his ears when he questioned his aide about Paulus's last words.
UNCHRONICLE OF THE CHAINED APOSTLE and CHRONICLE OF THE WEARY ANGEL
CHRONICLE OF THE FOUR CROSSES A. S. 289, 1. The Theban Insurrection, 2. The Tenth Man How a chief killed his best warriors out of pride, but in doing so made them even greater warriors in the country of sky lodges, where they held the river ford against the raiding Red Dog Star while he suffered everlasting shame for his deed.
CHRONICLE OF THE FOUR CROSSES, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE M-Q WILD GOOSE A. S. 349, Wan Hoo the Kaikonaut and the Rocket Chair How a son honored his ailing, aged mother and went to find the potent herb on the moon to cure her and make her live forever, thereby becoming the first man to attempt to fly there on a "wild goose" (the rocket-propelled chair he invented).
CHRONICLE OF THE M-Q WILD GOOSE, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF EIRE'S MESSIAH A. S. 362, The Slave's Gift How Magonus Sucutus Patricius, a young, licentious, shallowly-believing Christian Briton of the noble Roman curiale class, was kidnapped and enslaved by Irish raiders, then later escaped from slavery in Ireland and returned home, only to be accosted in a dream by an Irishman begging the noble youth to return and bring the light and deliverance to the lost and despairing people of the Emerald Island.
CHRONICLE OF EIRE's MESSIAH, VOL. IV, RETRO STAR
CHRONICLE OF THE PAY-BACK A.S. 410, The Fall of Roma, A.S. 1453 - Lamentations with Sacqueboutes How the Burgundians reaped what they sowed; how when barbarians they first shared in the destruction and sack of Western Roma, then benefited by the very civilization they helped destroy, becoming rich and powerful and even Christian in the formerly Roman territory they seized; how the East Roma emperor came to them seeking help against the Moslem Turks attacking his capital city, all that was left of his empire; how he went back to Constantinople without the Burgundian's aid, and how later the Burgundians lost not only their once glorious realm (full of music and feasting and courtly manners) and shining destiny but were reduced to Dijon, a brand of mustard.
CHRONICLE OF THE PAY-BACK, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE BLACK-ROBE A. S. 735, Herald of the Parousia: Bede of Wearmouth-Jarrow How a young brave of the Anglo-Saxons found refuge in a great stone tipi filled with holy men, and how he became a recorder of great things, and how he saw even greater things at the end of his life, which when written his frightened scribe thrust secretly, he thought, into the fire, only it refused to burn--things such as a future world ruler with his throne in London, a royal family renamed Windsor, and even a "people's princess, the glossy Cow Bird beauty called Diana.
CHRONICLE OF THE BLACK-ROBE, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE BROKEN EAGLE FEATHER A. S. 878, A Refuge from the Storm How a mighty chief of a tribe fought tribes that came from the east stealing his people's horses and burning their tipis, and how, led by the wisdom of an old woman on the Isle of Athelney, he found a way to save his country, Wessex, which grew and became the mighty nation called England--a nation which came to possess power to obtain a vast realm and change the world. CHRONICLE OF THE BROKEN EAGLE FEATHER, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE WASICHU'S COMING IP A. S. 1620, The Mayflower How pale-skinned, strange newcomers who sailed a great canoe named for a flower and who wore many thicknesses of buckskins settled in a place with bad spirits but learned from us the Vanished People how to plant and produce plenty to eat.
CHRONICLE OF THE BLACK PRIMSTAV A. S. 1707, Chronicler of the Messiah How a rather ordinary Norwegian dairyman, Dreng Bjornsson, began a new Norwegian calendar stick, carving it to replace the old one that had been handed down to him. How the calendar stick became the opportunity for the enlargement of Dreng Bjornsson's vision of the world and the future as well, in the most unexpected way.
CHRONICLE OF THE BLACK PRIMSTAV
CHRONICLE OF THE WASICHU GHOST DANCER A. S. 1755, Bullets That Turned to Raindrops How a young chief trained his spirit with such wisdom and prudence that even bullets could not touch him (and later he would lead the new nation that formed after he achieved victory with arms over the superior forces of the British).
CHRONICLE OF THE WASICHU GHOST DANCER, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE DIVER'S CASQUE A. S. 1768, Angel of the Lake How Gouveneur Morris, a great leader of the Wasichu who helped write the Great Covenant of his people, when a young man was rescued from drowning in a sporting dive in a lake located on the Morrises' Manhattan island estate.
CHRONICLE OF THE DIVERS' CASQUE, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE ASSASSIN A. S. 1775, The Lieutenant's Aim How a British sharpshooter had the commanding general of the break-away American colonies's arm dead in his sights, but, despite all his training and the 1,000 pounds paid him, could not bring himself to pull the trigger on what he saw to be a true king and a man of noble soul.
CHRONICLE OF THE ASSASSIN, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE GREAT WHITE FATHER'S PASSING A. S. 1799 How George Washington, who could have ruled the brand-new United States of America as a king but declined a third term and everything else smacking of kingship, spent his last day of life busily inspecting his estate and the well-being of its servants and workers; how he fell ill from a chill caught from five hours exposure to the raw weather, and how the unscientific medicine of the day not only failed to help but hastened him to his death; nhow the Dream he had dreamed was reviewed by an aged black woman of devout faith, and how the Dream fared along with the great one who dreamed it.
CHRONICLE OF THE GREAT WHITE FATHER'S PASSING, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE GARDENE OF DESTINYE A. S. 1850, Holiday at Castle Edzell How an eight year old girl from Abbotsbury solves the castle's greatest mind-game, a puzzle left over from the Age of Titans and later amended by Joseph of Arimathea and the 17th Century Tradescant brothers that was reputed to hold a key to the future well-being, even the preservation, of the British Isles.
CHRONICLE OF THE GARDENE OF DESTINYE, VOL. IV, RETRO STAR
CHRONICLE OF THE WASICHU BROTHERS' WAR A. S. 1863, Christmas at Andersonville How the white brothers of the North and South fought, and how the brother of the North, after terrible setbacks administered by the South's genius in war-craft and chieftainship, finally prevails--but in a Christmas play in a prison camp, not on the battlefield.
CHRONICLE OF THE WASICHU BROTHERS' WAR, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE BELZONI EXHIBIT A. S. 1865, Part I, The Colossus of Thebes, Part II, Twenty Minutes After Ten, Part III, "Where are you taking the Colossus, my good fellow?" How the reputed Colossus of Thebes representing the Pharaoh of the Hebrew Captivity came to Washington and was given a Presidential visit, and how the dying President, a Colossus to come, came to view the end in turn of the future Washington City. CHRONICLE OF THE BELZONI EXHIBIT, VOL. IV, RETRO STAR
CHRONICLE OF TWO BROTHERS A. S. 1865-, Giant Footprints How the Wasichu flooded the land of the Lakota, and how a young pioneer Wasichu "sodbuster" on a Dakota Territory homestead saved the life of a Rosebud Lakota chief who was Gabriel Tall Chief's great-grandfather.
CHRONICLE OF THE TWO BROTHERS, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE BLACK SHIP'S CREW A. S. 1877, Escape from Wolverton How two delinquent boys escaped from a rural Californian reform school and were enlisted in a computerized wargame far in the future after one of them killed the other. CHRONICLE OF THE BLACK SHIP'S CREW, VOL. IV, RETRO STAR
CHRONICLE OF THE GREY DOVE A. S. 1878, Wings over Te Aute How Te Hapuku and Karaitiana, two of the greatest warriors and chiefs of the Island of the Long Cloud, who had fought a bloody war over selling land to the white Europeans and opposed each other as bitter enemies for twenty five long years, were finally brought together by a compassionate intermediary, Sir George Grey, Premier of New Zealand, as Chief Te Hapuku lay dying in his lodge; how the wonders of the far future were unveiled before the amazed premier as he was given the secret meanings of the wonderfully intricate wood carvings of the Maori people--carvings that, to the Maori, contained not just the future but the power, the mana, of the world.
CHRONICLE OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY BRIDGE A. S. 1889, Norton's Grand Vision How a self-crowned "Emperor of the Americas and Protector of Mexico" in San Francisco envisoned a great bridge spanning the Bay, that not only would carry the commerce of men but their hearts' forgiveness and reconciliation. CHRONICLE OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY BRIDGE, VOL. IV, RETRO STAR
CHRONICLE OF THE LISTENING HEARTS A. S. 1912, 1. Wrestlers at the Brook How a Welsh miner left his home and job and followed a divine call to Swansea to establish a training camp for prayer warriors.
CHRONICLE OF THE LISTENING HEART, PART I, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
2. The Premonition How a mother in Second Class aboard a luxury liner on its maiden voyage in the North Atlantic could not sleep because the ship had been called "unsinkable," and spent most of three days voyage sitting up and praying.
CHRONICLE OF THE LISTENING HEART, PART II, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
3. "Sweet dreams, Mademoiselle!" How a rich, little girl in First Class aboard the doomed ship dreamed what was going to happen, and how her French governess calmed the girl and wished her sweet dreams only a few minutes before the vessel was fatally struck and sent to the bottom of the sea.
CHRONICLE OF THE LISTENING HEART, PART III, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE TIGERS' FEAST A. S. 1919, The Mirrors of Versailles How a peace conference of the victorious Allies brokered a treaty at Versailles that produced the Second World War, and how the mirrors reflected a far different scene than Clemenceau, Wilson, and Lloyd George wished to portray to the anxious, watching world
CHRONICLE OF THE TIGERS' FEAST, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE RAT STAR AND THE EXODUSTER A. S. 1919, Convergence in Kansas How a young black Kansas farm girl, Pearl Shoey, painted barn rats red to get rid of them, and saw then a red-glowing star that afterwards she thought must of changed her beloved Pa, because he seemed never the same after the red star touched him with its light. CHRONICLE OF THE RAT STAR AND THE EXODUSTER, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE ICE BIRD--PART I A.S. 1922, Shackleton's Third Expedition Continued How Sir Ernest Shackleton, famed polar explorer, on a solo day trip doing reconaissance for his third expedition south to the Pole by way of McMurdo's Dry Valleys--a 1,500 square mile tract of ice-free terrain--finds a strange, mastless ship, which he enters just as a polar cyclonic storm strikes, rndering the area uninhabitable. Christening it ENDURANCE II, after his last ship, the three-masted barkentine ENDURANCE that was crushed in the ice of the Weddell Basin, he sails on a pre-determined curse to the stars in the north, the Constellation of Orion, with a mission he does nt know until he reaches his destination.
CHRONICLE OF THE ICE BIRD, PART I, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE TRAVOIS A. S. 1919-1939, The War Between Wars How the First Horse, Ian "Breaks Eggs, " learned many things from Second Horse, until both could pull the travois together to the place chosen for the Great Council Fire of the End-Time.
CHRONICLE OF THE TRAVOIS, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF YELLOWSTONE DAYS A. S. 1928, Song of the Golden West How the rollicking, high-spirited, hard-working girls and boys serving the crowds at Yellowstone, easily the premier national park of America, enjoyed a moment of innocence and beauty rare in the world, not realizing it was all over for them and their generation in but a few months, with the Wall Street stock market melt-down of '29 just one incident in the long road backwards.
CHRONICLE OF THE TIME ROCKET, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF RAGNAROK
A. S. 1937, Singer of the Ancient Seer
How a bard left the Emerald Island to look at old vellum books
and paintings preserved by the Benedictines in a monastery in Padua, Italia, and how they warned him about a second great world conflict of the Wasichu nations, which would usher in the new world order and the rise of a lion-bodied, man-headed Beast, the False Messiah, who would seize world power and crush out all the light of liberty and decency in Civilisation.
CHRONICLE OF RAGNAROK, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE MOUNTAIN TOMB
A. S. 1938, Eugenio's Secret
How a Basque fighting with the Loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War found ancient scrolls and artifacts in a tomb that were older
than even Eskual Herria, the Basque homeland that predated every
other nation and nationality in Europe.
CHRONICLE OF THE MOUNTAIN TOMB, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE OSLO TAPESTRY
A. S. 1938, Katrine's Secret
How a Norwegian woman, living alone, grew so desperate about her dry spiritual condition that she would do anything, even take pictures of leaves and shadows in her garden, if it would help restore her faith--pictures forming a tapestry portraying events to come that would have astounded the world if all of them had been made public.
CHRONICLE OF THE OSLO TAPESTRY, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE RUINED CATHEDRAL
A. S. 1940, Winter of the Soul How Coventry was sacrificed, along with its ancient cathedral and much of its population, by a decision of Churchill who aimed to let the bombers through without any warning to Coventry in order to make the Nazis believe their secret code had not been cracked by Britain's code breakers at Bletchley House. How a half-literate scrubwoman in the smoking ruins of the Cathedral found the means to confront the unspeakable tragedy of losing practically everything in the bombing and firestorm that destroyed Coventry; that is, her husband, children, neighbors, city, cathedral, even her house and job.
CHRONICLE OF THE RUINED CATHEDRAL, VOL. IV. RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE SEA LION
A. S. 1940, 1. Convergence at Abbotsbury
How a pious, elder daughter caring for an aged, ailing mother,
prayed the right prayer, effectively throwing a switch to a
most powerful blessing 1,900 years old.
CHRONICLE OF THE SEA LION, PART I, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
2. Winter's Grace
How a Welsh "College of Intercessionary Prayer-warcraft and Fasting," founded by a former coal miner, succeeded in turning the major events of World War II, starting with the Battle of Britain.
CHRONICLE OF THE SEA LION, PART II, RETROSTAR
3. No Wings But a Prayer
How Sir Francis Cecil, hereditary Lord St. Aubyn of the Mount of St. Michael, Cornwall, while squadron commander of Spitfires in the Battle of Britain, was struck wingless by enemy fire but continued flying, and
how he was taken out over the coast where he witnessed an even greater event taking place off the notoriously stormgirt Chesil Banks.
CHRONICLE OF THE SEA LION, PART III, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
4. Ivy's Grand Slam
How a little English girl in Portsmouth changed her bedtime prayer and turned back an incoming V-2, setting it on a trajectory that almost took Shickelgruber out of the war.
CHRONICLE OF THE SEA LION, PART IV, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE PILLAR OF LIGHT, A. S. 1940- , How on Earth I Elijah, a Romanian boy growing up in a brutal Communist-ruled country, found a miracle-producing faith to stand up against
the impossible odds of confronting a militaristic, atheist dictatorship destroying his beloved homeland, and how he made a new life for himself, succeeding after tens of thousands before him had been slain in the attempt.
CHAPTER 1, CHRONICLE OF THE PILLAR OF LIGHT
CHAPTER 2, CHRONICLE OF THE PILLAR OF LIGHT
CHAPTER 3, CHRONICLE OF THE PILLAR OF LIGHT
CHAPTER 4, CHRONICLE OF THE PILLAR OF LIGHT
CHAPTER 5, CHRONICLE OF THE PILLAR OF LIGHT
CHAPTER 6, CHRONICLE OF THE PILLAR OF LIGHT
CHAPTER 7, CHRONICLE OF THE PILLAR OF LIGHT
CHAPTER 8, CHRONICLE OF THE PILLAR OF LIGHT
CHAPTER 9, CHRONICLE OF THE PILLAR OF LIGHT
CHAPTER 10, CHRONICLE OF THE PILLAR OF LIGHT
CHAPTER 11, CHR0NICLE OF THE PILLAR OF LIGHT
CHAPTER 12, CHRONICLE OF THE PILLAR OF LIGHT
CHAPTER 13, CHRONICLE OF THE PILLAR OF LIGHT
CHAPTER 14, CHRONICLE OF THE PILLAR OF LIGHT
CHAPTER 15, CHRONICLE OF THE PILLAR OF LIGHT
CHAPTER 16, CHRONICLE OF THE PILLAR OF LIGHT
CHAPTER 17, CHRONICLE OF THE PILLAR OF LIGHT
CHAPTER 18, CHRONICLE OF THE PILLAR OF LIGHT
CHRONICLE OF THE ORACLE OF MENO
A. S. 1938-1941, St. Roderick's Secret
How a Basque patriot, deserting the Loyalist army in the Spanish
Civil War, became a free lance secret agent for the British side against the Nazis, luring Shickelgruber into the race for a Super-Bomb
while withholding vital information that would have made the Nazi
project a success.
CHRONICLE OF THE ORACLES OF MENO, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE RAG DOLL
A. S. 1943, Christmas at Auschwitz
How a young, brilliant, blind chemist, soon to perish in a gas chamber, afraid it was all for nothing, was given unmistakable proof her life was divinely touched.
CHRONICLE OF THE RAG DOLL
CHRONICLE OF THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY'S SECRET PANELS
A. S. 1944, Questioning the Sphinx
How nuns guarded what came to be known as the world's most famous tapestry, the one detailing the Norman invasion of England in 1066, and how an American nun, an expert in tapetries, discovered additional panels that had not been sewn onto the masterpiece--panels that had been kept secret for the obvious reason they were found so disturbing because they were so prophetic about the world to come.
CHRONICLE OF THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY'S SECRET PANELS, Vol. IV, Retro Star
CHRONICLE OF THE BROKEN GLASS
A. S. 1945,
1. Legacy
How the victorious chieftains at the Potsdam council meeting from Britain, the U.S., and the Soviet Union, in the name of peace started the "War of Ice," and how Britain's "Tube Alloys" nuclear project came to nothing with suppression and disappearance of vital M-2 intelligence, and President Truman's ace in the hole, the Manhattan Project's Super-Bomb, fizzled at Alamagordo--apparently forcing America to join forces with Britain and Stalin's Russia to fight on to the finish with conventional forces against Premier Hideki Tojo's best troops and, unknown as yet to the Allies and their war planners, a whole nation swept by Kamikaze, the "Divine Wind".
CHRONICLE OF THE BROKEN GLASS, PART I, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
2. The Pack Rat
How a peddler of information, selling whatever he dug up to the highest bidder, happened on a deadly superweapon--one of three that Senhor Averinata had offered the British--that later would be used to help tip the scales against America in favor of the United Nations and a world government. To the Jews the crushing of the wine glass in a Jewish wedding recalled the destruction of the Temple by the Romans in ANNO 70, but to the Basques, it meant the whole universe was shattered--never ever to be put back together as it had been. (How could he barter and trade the destinies of whole nations as if they were trinkets and trifles? Peddlers, like foraging rats, consider only the present moment, and the penny or two gained or lost--never the long haul, which is, for a peddler, far to frightening to even consider in a rodent-type mind. Without the ship, the rat would drown in the open sea. Yet it infests the ship, spreads its diseases with its own dirt, and gives the crew a deadly plague, and the ship, without anyone to guide it to safety, strikes a rock and sinks, drowning the rats who caused the disaster. This has happened countless times. Their own nature, thus, gnaws off the rope that holds them above the pit. Pity the civilization where such men, such vermin, proliferate and gain high office! And you can always tell the end is near when such are numerous and run free, from deck to deck!).
CHRONICLE OF THE BROKEN GLASS, PART II, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
3. The Angels of USS Indianapolis IP
How on July 29, following the successful test of a new death ray in the first week of July, that dissolved atomic structures and could fuse human flesh to metal, a battleship was loaded with the deadly "gadget" and sailed for Tinian, an island in the Marianas Chain. Locked in a steel box bolted to the deck of the captain's cabin, the weapon that would knock the Japanese on the home islands to their knees would be assembled in the secret facility at North Field on Tinian, then deployed by aircraft over the first test cities of Tokyo and Kyoto, the two most revered cities in Japan and the centers of Japanese cultural life. How the best laid plan of the war came to naught, with details of immense tragedy and even angelic intervention that were so explosive in nature they could never be revealed to the American public.
CHRONICLE OF THE BROKEN GLASS, PART 3, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
4. The Divine Wind
How Operation Downfall, the invasion of the Japanese home islands,
ultimately succeeded but without superweapons proved so costly to America and Russia that they had cause to recall King Pyrrhus of the Greek kingdom of Epirus, who conquered Roman armies on their home turf but sustained such heavy losses he complained in his famous statement known for its unforgettable pathos, "Another such victory and I am ruined!"
CHRONICLE OF THE BROKEN GLASS, PART 4, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE WINTER SACRIFICE
A. S. 1947, 1. Winter's Child
How deeply the alien star's rays penetrated postwar America, and how an old farmer's beloved son was killed in the Wioteheka hi, Month of Terrible Moons.
2. Plain View Farm
How two deaths in a fiery plane crash were needed to thaw the frozen hearts of two other men.
CHRONICLE OF THE KILLER BEAR'S DESCENT
A. S. 1951, The Bear and the Lamb How Djugashvilli fared, while on the operating table in the Kremlin, as a small army of surgeons desperately tried to preserve his life after a massive sroke; how they failed and Djugashvilli, an atheist, found himself still alive, imprisoned in an Afterlife cell which could only be described as hellish. How things got progressively worse for him, as he encountered a strange Jew wearing a prayer shawl and next faced a Judge sitting on a throne so immense it couldn't be anyone less than God sitting upon it, and how he was judged by the testimonies of thirty or so millions he had had tortured and slain, and how after that he found himself shunted into a burning lake of blast furnance intensity, and how he, like all the others in it, were forgotten.
CHRONICLE OF THE KILLER BEAR'S DESCENT, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE MAN LIKE A BRIDGE A.S. 1956, The Search How a young woman of the First World discovered the way back to her lost childhood faith, a faith that carried her all the way to Third World Cameroon wilderness in West Africa where it finally set its roots deep and briefly bloomed.
CHRONICLE OF THE MAN LIKE A BRIDGE
MYSTERY CHRONICLE OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY A. S. 1962
The Phantom Ship How Lt. Greg Culpepper's life and career took a radical turn and plunge to the bottom of society after a storm at sea and his sighting of the R.M.S. TITANIC going down as he was inspecting the lighthouse facilities at Cape Disappointment and North Head on the mouth of the Columbia River, Washington State.
MYSTERY CHRONICLE OF THE 50th ANNIVERSARY, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF EDYTH'S GOLDEN CROSS
A. S. 1963, A Truth Not Told How Miss Edyth Hamilton, humanist, classicist, and world-renowned authority on Greek and Norse mythology, was strangely confronted on her deathbed with certain false premises that undergird her whole life-work.
CHRONICLE OF EDYTH'S GOLDEN CROSS, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE LADY OF THE SPARROWS, A Tale of Old New York and Central Park
A.S. 1964, Lucky's Big Strike How Lucretiza Tisdale, a spinster
lady in her nineties,
fed
the sparrows of Central Park faithfully every day and how her death under the wheels of a beer truck brought
changes,
through the very sparrows she had given soda crackers, that she could not otherwise have achieved at her age and
with
her
insignificant, sparrowlike strength.
CHRONICLE OF THE LADY OF THE SPARROWS, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE FIGHTING ANGEL, PARTS I AND II
A. S. 1963
How the Swensons, a young American newlywed couple, in training for the mission field, took a break from language school in Paris, and came to a crisis of their relationship and a man's faith in God on and beneath the Mount of St. Miguel, the Fighting Angel.
CHRONICLE OF THE FIGHTING ANGEL, VOL. IV, RETRO STAR
PART II: How the Swensons came to share their Christmas with the Fulani Tribe in Cameroon, West Africa, and how their cheer spread from there as far as the stars to a lost tribe of the Alpha Centaurii.
CHRONICLE OF THE REVIVAL OF HAGIA SOPHIA
A.S. 1968 How Lidia, a Greek Orthodox nun, ventured from her safe refuge in a convent in Athens, to return by tourist boat to her lost homeland in the Turkish nation that had forced her family to flee for their lives in the savage. almost genocidal war that broke out between the Greeks and Turks after World War I. How she learned things she did not expect from her day trip and contact with the enemy occupying her people's chief city and seat of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople and East Rome. How she received a gift she would always treasure--and ceased feeling herself robbed by the Turks though they had taken her Greek homeland as their own and pushed out virtually all her fellow Greeks.
CHRONICLE OF THE REVIVAL OF HAGIA SOPHIA, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE SHOW ME STATE'S PROPHET (EARTH I)
A. S. 1966, Elijah's Mantle How young and aspiring Brad Bright Jr. dreamed of becoming a prophet to "Holy Spirit-led, on-fire" Pentecostal churches in Missouri, his home state. How his promising life was cut short by a fatal collision with a tree when he was driving his truck home from a church youth meeting, and how his dream of ministry was defeated only temporarily, as a bit later he was brought back to serve with Elijah's mantle in the war against the AntiChrist Beast and his prophet during the post-Rapture Tribulation Period.
CHRONICLE OF THE SHOW ME STATE PROPHET, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE GIANT CHIEFS
A. S. 1972, Two Sayings of Uwe Hantsbo Regarding the Atlanteans:
Elektra's Sad Fate, and Atlantis on the rocks, anyone?
How the Earth's tribe of original giants that stood like the tallest trees on Earth lived in a vast land that sank beneath the Eastern Sea.
CHRONICLE OF THE BLUE BRIDGE SALIENT A. S. 1973-1978 Even while the armies of France, Britain, and America struggled unsuccessfully in southern Asia to push back the communist forces from the north, a greater battle was being fought among the stars. How Atlantean star fleets combined with the red star and other star-stones to force an entry into the Great Nebula in order to destroy the protective forces centered at the Blue Brige. How, nearly successful, they were rebuffed, forcing an Atlantean subcommander to retreat to Earth.
CHRONICLE OF THE BLUE BRIDGE SALIENT, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF HANTSBO'S NOTES
A.S. 199?, On the Bipedal Workforce of 1994tk66--A Flying Texas
How Uwe Hantsbo discovered on a planetoid a most interesting cache of mutants, freeze-dried specimens of the very kinds that had been proposed by a Washington geographical society in its magazine to be authentic human prototypes proven by science and archeology. The only problem, as Hantsbo points out, is that they were found all mixed together, obvious contemporaries, not separated by millions of years or mere hundreds of thousands as was said to be the case by the East Coast Brahmin evolutionists entrenched in the powerful, elitist geographical society.
CHRONICLE OF HANTSBO'S NOTES, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE ICE BIRD, PART II A. S. 1973, Voyage of the PRION Inspired by Shackleton's legendary heroism, how an exlorer from New Zealand set out to be the first to circumnavigate Antarctica in a small boat solo, and stumbled into an unknown "Devil's Triangle" of ancient Atlantean orgin just off East Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf that changed his course so radically he was propelled in space and also time as far as an ancient Atlantean outpost opposite the gate of the Great Nebula of Orion--the very site of what Tennison the Poet Laureate of Britain described as holding a "vast mystic charm."
CHRONICLE OF THE ICE BIRD, PART II, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
MYSTERY CHRONICLE OF THE WHITE CANOE
A. S. 1977, Fairwind in Deep Waters
How a young electric plant operator of mixed working class and New England blue blood background takes a cruise into the unknown mysteries of time and space aboard what had first seemed a New York based cruise ship on its way to Peru.
MYSTERY CHRONICLE OF THE WHITE CANOE, VOL. IV, RETRO STAR
CHRONICLE OF THE ICE BIRD, PART III A. S. 1978, Cavendish in the Sky with Diamonds A somewhat crusty curmugeon of a retired journalist, in remission from cancer but angry over the recent loss of his wife to the same disease, goes out into his ruined back yard and changes places with a Prion, a polar bird that has wandered into his garden and died. Somehow the bird in death becomes him, giving him wings of a starship that can touch the farthest stars and Orion, Gateway to the Morning, where something bright and shining with destiny for everyone one arth seemed to open to him.
CHRONICLE OF THE ICE BIRD, PART III, VOL. IV, RETRO STAR
CHRONICLE OF THE LADY OF THE ANCHORED
A.S. 1983
On the Trail of St. Paul
How Prunella, a sedate altar guild woman from the Midlands, England, on tour with a cruise ship company in the Middle East, finds release from a crushing depression over the accidental death of her daughter.
CHRONICLE OF THE LADY OF THE ANCHORED, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE SURVEYOR OF THE QUEEN'S PICTURES
A. S. 1983-,
The Knight of Darkness
How Sir Anthony Blunt and his fellow Cambridge-educated colleagues became involved in a secret spy ring inside the British secret services, serving not Fascism but Soviet Russia during part of the Second World War and for some years of the following Cold War with Soviet Russia. How Sir Anthony "retired" from being a double agent to being the Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, with the responsibility for all the Queen's artworks in the royal palaces, but how he was exposed as a spy and found guilty but was allowed to retire with some dignity to his home, while his co-conspirators fled to Soviet Russia. How in dying they singly and together discovered an
Afterlife their Darwinistic beliefs had denied was possible, which delegated them to a new venture just as exciting as betraying their own country and serving her arch enemy--a contest involving the Golden Fleece and a rival ship called the Argo.
CHRONICLE OF THE SURVEYOR OF THE QUEEN'S PICTURES, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE SACRED COWHIDE PAINTER
A. S. 1987, Ira's Letter to the 11,000th Century
How an artist's paintings for a B.I.A.-Lakota Christmas arts and crafts competition were preserved for a tribe of Wasichu lost seemingly forever among the lodges of the stars.
CHRONICLE OF THE SACRED COWHIDE PAINTER
CHRONICLE OF THE LION'S DESCENT, A. S. 1995, "The Lion's Descent," Part I, "The Lion's Legacy," Part II, How a U.S. Supreme Court Justice who was a very nice and likable gentleman became responsible for a once great and godly nation's descent into self-destructive depravity and violence and also for more deaths of Americans than were slain in the death camps of Himmler and Hitler (Earth I), and how he fared in Hades (Hell) after his death.
CHRONICLE OF THE LION'S DESCENT, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF UWE HANTSBO'S NOTES
A. S. 199?, On the Bipedal Workforce of 1994tK66, A Flying Texas
How Uwe Hantsbo points out certain rather glaring flaws in the evolutionary timeline and evolutionary theory after seeing the flaws in question with his own eyes, frozen specimens of hominids and so-called human precursors, flying aboard a Texas-sized hunk of rock; how their existence supports his own view that highly intelligent, highly terrible ante-humans he names as the Atlanteans were responsible for the Dachau-like work camp on the asteriod.
CHRONICLE OF UWE HANTSBO'S NOTES, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE GREAT WEAVER PEOPLE
A. S. 1997, The Secret of Dream Catching
How Horace Brave Scout wanders the Southwest and finds his life-guiding vision among the caves and baskets of an extinct tribe.
CHRONICLE OF THE GREAT WEAVER PEOPLE
CHRONCLE OF THE UTERO-NAUT
A. S. YEAR OF THE CHILD,
PART I,
Orientation
How Shawnta, a 19 year old wannabe careerist like her single mom, was processed at the local abortion mill
newly opened in her black neighborhood.
CHRONICLE OF THE UTERO-NAUT, PART I, RETROSTAR
PART II, The Argonaut
How Shawnta's unborn child (no such thing as "fetus" ever existed on earth), genius that he was,
got going with the name of Jason on a very promising career that
might well have benefited the whole society and probably the world, but was rudely
interrupted by an abortionist's foreseps, scizzors, and vacuum--but also how the Master Plan created by the FC kicked in with a contingency plan to restore Jason's life and future.
CHRONICLE OF THE UTERO-NAUT, PART II, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE PEARLY GATES
A. S. 1998, How a Pearl Was Made
How a farmer's daughter's experiences in life and her decision to be forgiving came to form one half of a gate of heaven.
CHRONICLE OF THE PEARLY GATE, PARTS I-II, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE GRAND PUZZLE--Earth I
A. S. 2001-
How Anatoly, a survivor of a notorious Nazi death camp where Anne Franke and her sister perished along with tens of thousands of other Jews, spent his convalescence and waiting period to go to Israel by playing the lottery after the camp was in the hands of the Allies; how he shattered the laws of probability by never losing and always managing to win back his stake; how this impossible gambling feat came back to haunt him in the last minutes of his life as he lay dying in a Denver hospital, but how the Hound of Heaven led him to win the Jackpot of life, the greatest prize of all.
CHRONICLE OF THE GRAND PUZZLE, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE LOST CITY
A. S. 2002, Last Breakfast in the West Wing; Melt-down on Pennsylvania Avenue
How the Wasichu of the U. S., in moral and political decline over against the British Commonwealth ever since Potsdam despite the highly-publicized moon and space programs of NASA, are struck by an invisible enemy and lose all their chiefs at once, and chiefs from the rest of the world come and set up a new council fire for the nation on Manhattan Island.
CHRONICLE OF THE MILLION MAN FLESH-EATER, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE DEAD MOVIE QUEEN
A. S. 2003, The Burning of Coburn How a Hollywood legend found that all her fame, fortune, and feisty feminism couldn't erase the incredible after-death reality that was evidently turning against her--not only did she find she existed when she should have dissolved into nothingness, but all sorts of strange, powerful beings seemed intent on judging her and then throwing her into what appeared to be a Pacific Ocean set on fire.
CHRONICLE OF THE DEAD MOVIE QUEEN, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF MOSHE, HONORGUARDSMAN
A. S. "Night of the Iguana" How on Earth I, Moshe Benlevi, a young Israeli soldier,
a freedom-loving Sabra, was chosen to be a part of Michael Jayson's
honor guard in Israel when the EU President arrived there for the signing of his
"eternal peace" accord he had brokered with the Palestinians and the Israelis. How Moshe tasted sour grapes in the deal and decided to stop the world (at least his slice of it) and get off, but how he was intercepted by someone he hadn't included in his life's equation.
CHRONICLE OF MOSHE, HONORGUARDSMAN, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF DJUGASHVILLI'S SERVANTS A. S. 2024 The Titan of CNNC A hostile takeover by Ted Hunter of a competing Christian network, Alpha-Omega, backfired tragically for him when his wife, converting to Christianity right in his own penthouse on top the CNNC Towers in Manhattan, took A-O's side in opposing him. A takeover that was supposed to be routine, thanks to his billions and an army of corporate lawyers, became a living nightmare when he met a world-class power player in A-0 that more than proved his match.
CHRONICLE OF DJUGASHVILLI's SERVANTS, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE FALLEN GIANT
A. S. 2024, How the Dominion of Canada, like the Humpty Dumpty the ill-starred egg man in children's nursery tales, broke up due to the disastrous effects of resurgent glaciation but could not be put back together; how it gained an ephemeral capital called Flin Flondia, once called the "Sunless City," in a book by that name.
CHRONICLE OF THE FALLEN GIANT, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE LAST CAMELOT
A. S. 2170-,
1. Idylls of the King
CHRONICLE OF THE LAST CAMELOT, PART I, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
2. The Panther's Jaws
CHRONICLE OF THE LAST CAMELOT, PART II, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
3. Women and Children First!
CHRONICLE OF THE LAST CAMELOT, PART III, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
4. Le Morte D'X-2914000?
CHRONICLE OF THE LAST CAMELOT, PART IV, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
5. "Merry Christmas from Lyonnesse"
CHRONICLE OF THE LAST CAMELOT, PART V, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
6. Wotoo's Black Box; The Duck King
CHRONICLE OF THE LAST CAMELOT, PART SIX, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
7. Last Wagon Train to Avalann
How the Royal Tribe of Windsor fared in exile on a base off Charon,
Pluto's moon, and how they adapted to the loss of Earth and the
dissolution of the monarchy
CHRONICLE OF THE LAST CAMELOT, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE STAR CHAMBER A. S. 2363, Christ in Atlantis? How Professor Pikkard was tried before a university panel for his heretical views and found guilty without evidence to refute his case.
CHRONICLE OF THE STAR CHAMBER, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF CHRISTUS TRIUMPHANS, Parts I, II, & III
A. S. 2392, The Christmas Factor How Dr. Pikkard, meditating on the mystic Teilhard Chardin's visionary commentary on a medieval painting portraying a "standing" not a "hanging" Christ on the Cross, went on to reflect as well as the Incarnation of Yeshua, and how he concluded that a mystic thread connected all things, even to the blood of the human body, but that he had to wait for a "later" and "younger" talent to make it known scientifically. How, unknown to him, that younger visionary came to be his own predecessor, a Darwininian Establishment-challenging young man named Behe in the 20th-21st centuries, along with his contemporaries, Gabriel Tall Chief and Horace Brave Scout, who traced golden threads and lesser threads in a grand "blood cascade" of their own in the chronicles they brought forth.
CHRONICLE OF CHRISTUS TRIUMPHANS, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
Book Two
CHRONICLE OF YOSEF'S PILGRIMAGE A. S. 4117, Flight to Avaris How Yosef and his young wife Maryam, with Maryam's newborn Yeshua the Promised Messiah of the Jews, fled from troops and spies of Herod the Great to safety in Mizraim, and how they journeyed back to Nazareth, their natal city, once Herod was dead.
CHRONICLE OF YOSEF'S PILGRIMAGE
CHRONICLE OF THE SECOND RESURRECTION
A. S. 4150, Secret Sharers, Part II
How the Second Zechariah the prophet, slain in the temple courts alng with many other prophets and saints, rose from the dead as a sign of the resurrection of the Messiah way back in A.S. 30, and how he went into the holy city and appeared to many, after which he was triumphantly escorted by angels to heaven's paradise--a spectacle first recorded, with certain new additions to the Resurrection Rolol, by Secret Sharer Josheph of Arimathea.
CHRONICLE OF THE SECOND RESURRECTION, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
UNCHRONICLE OF THE CHRISTMAS PLAY
A. S. 4 6 5 ?, "Merry Christmas from Lyonnesse," A Play, How a miserly, cruel banker seeks to destroy a whole town he has foreclosed on, closing down the only means of employment, the town mill, and how a small girl, Emily Cogwell, revives faith and hope in the people by refusing to give up her own in the bitter circumstances of poverty and homelessness, and how she turns and saves the banker when he experiences a change of heart after seeing her standing alone in the town square holding the Nativity Scene's Christ Child doll.
UNCHRONICLE OF THE CHRISTMAS PLAY, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE DRIED SPRINGS IP
A. S. 4760, A Chief's Son Named Laughing Waters
How an old chief and his old wife who had no children were
promised a son by God, and the old woman laughed, yet later she
conceived and gave birth to a beautiful son she named Minnehaha.
CHRONICLE OF THE PEARL DIVER
A. S. 5927 -, Shipwreck of Dreams How a despised half-breed, part Keftiuan and part Myceneaean (both nations bitter enemies in the world) and Prince Daedalus do not get along and almost
come to blows over the pretty orphan girl Theseus runs off with, and later after the
girl's death (and the shipwreck of Theseus's dreams) how they find
a way past hatred and revenge.
CHRONICLE OF THE PEARL DIVER, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE FIRE WATER MAKER
A. S. 5931, The Chosen
How a brewery malt masher got herself a mighty warrior as a husband, and how her head was knocked in by other poor women, and left to die,
but a great chief's prayer gained her the ear of the Most High and she was healed.
CHRONICLE OF THE FIRE WATER MAKER, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE BLESSINGS OF THE BREASTS
A. S. 5932-, The Wayward Vine
How the births of two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, comforted and
cheered Joseph in the land of his bondage, but how his beloved
wife and companion's heart turned toward her people and away from her husband.
CHRONICLE OF THE BLESSINGS OF THE BREASTS, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
TWIN CHRONICLE OF THE AMBUSHED MAIDENS, TWIN CHRONICLE OF THE AMBUSHED BRAVE
A. S. 5934,
1. Dawn Flower
TWIN CHRONICLE OF THE AMBUSHED MAIDENS, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
2. The Prince of Gilead
TWIN CHRONICLE OF THE AMBUSHED BRAVE
How a chieftain's daughter and her maid-servant fought for their
virtue; how the maid-servant escaped to safety and found a young man she could make her husband; how a prince, robbed of all his wealth, was left for dead in the desert, and how he found a greater wampum.
CHRONICLE OF THE BITTER ROOT
A. S. 5938, Abdullah's Return
How good times fattened Abdullah but did not improve his character,
and how resentment and blood revenge took root in his heart, and how
he could not rest until he avenged his brethren's deaths on the head
of the chief of those he held responsible--Joseph.
CHRONICLE OF THE BITTER ROOT, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF FAT WOLVES AND HUNGRY PEOPLE
A. S. 5941, Part I, A Bruised Reed and a Broken Staff; Part II, The Return of the Brothers
How the little family tribe of Joseph's father began to starve in their desert
hogans and needed to go for provision in another country where there was said to be abundant food and water, thanks to a most far-seeing ruler in it who had set aside one fifth of the harvest for seven straight years of abundant harvests.
PART II, CHRONICLE OF THE FAT WOLVES AND LEAN PEOPLE, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE FAR-SPEAKING VASES
A. S. 5931-, 1. Secret Diary of Ipu-Pheres (cont. by Benohe-Pheres);
A. S. 5942, 2. Letters of Ipu-Pheres, Jonathan H. Thompkins, and Bertha Mae 3. Letter to Reader by Editor of the 23rd Edition of RETRO STAR series.
How spirit-house shamans who have not yet been born could talk to people in stone tipis which had long since vanished under the ice.
CHRONICLE OF THE FAR-SPEAKING VASES, VOL. IV, RETRO STAR
CHRONICLE OF THE BLESSINGS AND CURSINGS
A. S. 5957, Jacob's Last Testament
How all his sons received their future shares in the Promised Land
and how his blessings in some cases seemed more like curses; how
Jacob's embalmed body was carried back to Ken'an and buried with
his father's bones.
CHRONICLE OF THE BLESSINGS AND CURSINGS, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE BLESSINGS OF THE EVERLASTING HILLS
A. S. 6011, The Kingdom Pledge
How Joseph, on his deathbed at age 110, prophesied that his bones would not lie forever in Mizraim, but they would be gathered to his fathers in the Promised Land by his people. How seventy five years of great blessing followed Joseph's death, but then enslavement of the Hebrews began. How blessed was the one piece of ground, the field
outside Shechem, owned by the people of Jacob and Joseph.
CHRONICLE OF THE BLESSINGS OF THE EVERLASTING HILLS, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF A CLOUDY AND DARK DAY
A. S. 6719, A Mighty Chief Called Barley Cake
How one young brave was chosen by God to fight tribes of thousands of enemies that oppressed and starved his people, coming every year
and taking all their food away.
CHRONICLE OF A CLOUDY AND DARK DAY, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
CHRONICLE OF THE GIANT-SCALPER
A. S. 6852, The Runt of Ephratah
How a tribesman of tiny Ephratah, smallest portion of a small country, he himself youngest in his family and despised by his brethren, killed and scalped a giant warrior and became the chieftain of the whole country and one of the most famous kings in human memory and whose second name is spread over the whole earth.
CHRONICLE OF THE GIANT SCALPER, VOL. IV, RETRO STAR
CHRONICLE OF THE CHIEFTAIN'S DAUGHTER IP
A. S. 8732, Elektra's Contingency Plan--Implemented
How a chieftain's daughter lost her last sky-canoe and seemingly all her people but found a tribe who didn't know better and took her
along with them.
CHRONICLE OF THE CHIEFTAIN'S DAUGHTER
CHRONICLE OF THE SEVEN STARS, THE GREAT WHITE CHAIR, AND THE END OF EARTH'S SKY-TRAIL AND THE GREAT LAST COUNCIL FIRE (EARTHS I AND II)
Z-Point II
GREAT LAST COUNCIL FIRE, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
1. Z-Point Deferred: Battle of the Seven Stars How, on Earth I, the "Light Bringer" Lucifer attacks the Seven Agensl of the Seven Cburches, determined to gain absolute control of Earth I, and how he uses this attack as a feint in order do the most damage he can to his true objective: the Blue Bridge of Orion that contains, he senses, to the Plan of Restoration for both Earths and their Universes.
CHRONICLE OF THE SEVEN STARS, VOL. IV, RETROSTAR
2. Part I: The Sentencing Trial: The Great Assize
Part I How all the people who had done bad things were shown what they
had done and were cast alive into the mouth of a Star-Eater along with all the spirit-creatures that lodged inside the enemy stars. Part II: City of Destruction How the cities and nations were judged and then their names and official seals and insigne cast into the Pit, and all memory erased in the mind of God of their former existence.
CHRONICLE OF THE GREAT WHITE CHAIR, VOL. IV, RETRO STAR
CHRONICLE OF THE BLUE BRIDGE LINKING CHAMPIONS--EARTH I AND EARTH II
How the Bridge once linking the Twin Earths was restored in the Cavern of the Great Nebula of Orion, a work that spanned the ages and completed the destiny of both worlds; how the choice to forgive by one wounded human being, a pioneer Exoduster's daughter from a farm in Kansas, joined the two half-spans together forever.
CHRONICLE OF THE BLUE BRIDGE LINKING CHAMPIONS
2. Homecoming of the City of the Great Chief IP
How the council gathering of the Lamb of God, finished after an eternity of careful construction, came down from heaven and set upon the center of restored Israel, where the Nail-Pierced One and his tribes would rule the Earth's nations for a thousand years until the Final Reaping of the Earth.
Volume V
Beyond the Rapture--An Eschatology Lived,
Chronicled by Horace Brave Scout
CHRONICLE OF THE GREAT CHIEF'S RETURN
A. S. 200?
How Yeshua comes to Earth I, unexpectedly to most people, gathers those few "Wise Virgins" who are prepared, and leaves those who
were tremendously successful followers, they thought, only to find themselves lumped with the ungodly in a world society racing
toward the abyss. How Heloise Turnbull, the televangelist, lost her world-wide organization and wealth along with her husband and family but found new life and a new ministry in Israel where she fled to escape the collapse of everything she had achieved.
PART ONE, JACOB'S TROUBLE, "THE VOICE FROM THE GROUND"
"Thief in the Night," Part Two, Beyond the Rapture
"The Spin Shamans," Part Three, Beyond the Rapture
"luv heat and the marcyz boyz," Part Four, Beyond the Rapture
"Hard Choices, Part Five, Beyond the Rapture
"The Wailers at the Wall," Beyond the Rapture
"Shelter from the Storm," Part Seven, Beyond the Rapture
"A Covenant God," Part Nine, Beyond the Rapture
"The Lion Unleashed," Part Nine, Beyond the Rapture
"Retreat to Petra," Part Ten, Beyond the Rapture
Please return for Book Two of Beyond the Rapture, "Yom Kipppur"
(Chronicle completed)
Volume VI
Natal Convergence
by Horace Brave Scout
CHRONICLE OF THE LOST TRIBE
A. S. 1,136,786
How the Alpha Centaurii discovered an archive of Late Twentieth Century artifacts in a time capsule, and information revealing a Magnum Mysterium that revolutionized everything, to the point where
they chose the dreaded White Martyrdom, a final search of the Universe for what they had lost, in which they discover what Ira
Sulkowsky has already shown them in....
"The Christmas Factor"
61000202A-Z, Subfile A1, "Dogon Star Child"
61000202A-Z, Subfile A2, "Lakota Nativity"
61000202A-Z, Subfile A3, "A Victorian Christmas"
61000202A-Z, Subfile A4, "Christmas with James Dean"
"Subfile A4: Christmas with James Dean, A Requiem with Poinsettias"
61000202A-Z, Subfile A5, "A Fawn in Winter"
61000202A-Z, Subfile A6, "A Fulani Christmas"
"A Fulani Christmas," Vol. VI, CHRONICLE OF THE LOST TRIBE, RETRO STAR
61000202A-Z, Subfile A7, "Street of Dreams"
61000202A-Z, Subfile A8, "Winter Rose"
CHRONICLE OF THE LOST TRIBE, WINTER ROSE, VOL. VI, RETROSTAR
61000202A-Z, Subfile A9, Act III, "Christmas from Lyonnesse"
61000202A-Z, Subfile A10, ACT III, "Joseph's Letter"
CHRONICLE OF THE LOST TRIBE, VOL. VI, "Joseph's Letter," RETROSTAR
"Natal Convergence!"
Volume VII
Final Wars...Convergence at Orion
by Horace Brave Scout IP
How two major battles fought for Orion and its secret "Skunk Works" resulted in the destruction of the
chief project, the Blue Bridge, to the point where only half survived in each Universe; and how a single act of an individual was strong enough to unite the two halves into one whole, thereby completing the bridge and defeating the opposing players.
Epilogue II
EPILOGUE II, "THE HARROWINGS OF HADES AND HELL," RETRO STAR
The crew also shifts shape. When they dive in the water they turn to sharks, but
they resume their former flat, card-like shapes when they leave the water. One Black Ship hand, Arthur Jackson, prefers zipping around the water as a sleek shark more than he likes his awkward existence as a playing card on land. He would stay in the water indefinitely, but there is a limit in the time set for each shape-shift. If he goes over it, the water feels like boiling oil and battery acid combined, and he has to get out immediately. An escapee from Wolverton, his DNA got into Tutasix, and Wally recruited him along with others from the same reform school. Sent to Wolverton by the authorities as an incorrigible juvenile for cheating on a test, talking back to a teacher, and sharing a bottle of beer with a school mate, Arthur Jackson
was fortunate they had not known some of his other achievements--such as burglary,
arson, and the murder of an old Chinese man for a couple dollars he found afterwards in his pocket.
There is little danger of any of the cybernauts taking an interest in the serving women on board. The black woman, Madame Tumpo, is all business when it comes to her duties as ship cook, and her helper, Betti, is an almost mindless victim of the pirates--more like a child than an adult. Amazingly, in her former life, she had been a film star in Holland America--but you wouldn't guess that looking at her now. She was treated so wretchedly, she is half-crazed and almost toothless.
Now it was deserted--as this city was in virtual reality, with scarcely an inhabitant to hold down Fort
Nisqually that had been moved up to be the centerpiece of Point Defiance Park. He wandered up there and took a look at
Never Never Land and the old, reconstructed fort.
Since they were supposed to help provision the ship, he started looking around. N
ot a person showed himself at the smelter with the towering stack, or at a huge grain elevator, or in the rows of warehouse.
Suddenly, a rabbit bolted out of the open door of a warehouse when he went to look in. Seeing his dinner getting away, Ero gave chase. The rabbit made for the beach in a zig-zag way of rabbits. Though wondering about this particular specimen, he had chased hares enough in the Peloponnesos and even on Seriphos his home island enough to know their tricks. Certain it would try to make for its hole under driftwood or rocks, he raced to head it off. But the rabbit dove into a tangled wood pile.
Ero swore as he thought of the wasted time and energy. He was very hungry by now. He found a club and waited where he last saw the rabbit.
He did not have long to wait. But what he saw made him hold off clubbing it. It was something out of a story for children, a rabbit-man! Only it was not at all attractive. A human face appeared attached to a rabbit's body. Its troubled, weak and watery eyes searched about, then filled with dumb shock as it saw him.
After a lot of walking, he entered the downtown, which was full of empty, dreary buildings, and came round a waterway to a big domed building.
"Go down and greet them," he said to Ero. "They'll appreciate a new face. Lord knows I'm sure sick of theirs! And that old screeching mother-in-law of Kelly's they call Fast Lucie who comes every evening and sings! She's ninety five, if she is a day! I try never to be there for that, but somehow I always get stuck, and here she comes in the door and I am trapped! I must have heard her sing "When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob-Bob-Bobbin Along!" a million times by now."
Ero wasn't listening as the old man complained, still playing his cards. He headed for the door, and soon found a way up this interesting train station that had no trains but still had a lot of dome to it.
He pulled himself up past the ring of teeth and climbed the last stretch to the top.
He reached out again, and though careful not to slip over the edge of the dome, he
found that the mountain and the clouds and sky were not real at all. They were
a scene somebody had pulled across the view, to give it a nicer look. Curious as much as repelled, he leaned out as far as he could and touched the mountain again. It gave way to his touch, and it even parted as if it were a curtain. That settled it for him. He wasn't afraid any longer of falling. He leaped at the mountain, grabbed it, and the next moment he was swinging behind it, still with a grasp on the paper thin mountain.
Behind it was darkness, lit by something in the background. He jumped away from the curtain and landed in a landscape, very steep, strewn with rocks piled one on top of the other. He climbed up to get a better view of the top of the rocky slope.
Far off he could see what looked to be buildings or shrines, glowing with a strange
intensity. But he felt as he gazed that something was gazing back at him, something full of hate and cunning and great power. Suddenly, he did not want to explore any further into this backstage of his world. He turned and made his way as fast as he could to the bottom of the rocks, and then made a leap that carried him through the backside of the mountain and out into the light of day. He rolled to a stop,
painting, still shocked at what he had found. He jumped up, looked around, and there rose the Union Station as regally and substantially as before. Ero blinked rapidly. Had he imagined the world behind the mountain? The mountain looked absolutely real
where he stood. He took a few steps toward it, then reconsidered, and spun around, and, as he had been advised, found the street that Crazy Dan said would take him to Kelly's Tavern.
He did not have to walk very far. It was three blocks down on the left side of the street, which he saw on a street sign was named Pacific. It was a small, brick sided building, a few yards from tracks that cross Pacific and headed toward the back of Union Station.
He could not tell anything from the windowless walls of the tavern, exccept that the sign said "Kelly's, and "Good food, Good Music, Good Drinks and Punchcards."
He found himself in the dark immediately, and his eyes had to adjust first before he could see anything ahead of him in the dark wood paneled room. It looked like any tavern, except that the little tables were arranged close to a loudspeaker system and mike, and a couple drums and a few instruments. He went and seated himself, and no one came to throw him out because he wasn't dressed like the others. A couple sat at one table, hand in hand beneath the table, and they were the only ones in the tavern except for a big-stomached, older man with wispy, reddish hair and his thin, even older looking helper who were washing up behind the bar.
The wispy-haired man, wearing a white bartender's apron emblazoned with "Kelley the Bouncer," laid it aside, and picked up a bass electric guitar and sat down and began to tune it. The couple at their table sat talking quietly, totally absorbed in each other. Both paid no attention whatsoever to
anything but each other.
The older man came out to Ero's table, his towel on his arm, and gave him a menu and a drinks list. He went away.
Ero did not even have time to look at it as the door behind him swung open, and
an old woman entered, going directly to her table which had a Reserved Sign on it next to a pot of tea, a wine glass, and a lit candle.
She did not sit but bent over the wispy-haired man, and they talked for a few moments, and then the red haired man rose, took the mike and announced that his mother-in-law, Fast Lucie, would favor them with a special song! As he made this announcement, the
older bartender sat at a small organ and was playing an accompaniment to Kelly's
words, adding flourishes, as Kelly plucked at his bass electric guitar and told dirty jokes.
After he had finished the last and dirtiest nun joke, underscoring the punch line with combined flourishes of the organ and his electric guitar, thus drowning out any groaning or catcalls, Kelly turned to the special feature of Happy Hour.
"Yes, ladies and gentlemen! Have we ever got a a special treat for you all tonight! Yessir! Fast Lucie, whom you all know as the Owl Party Candidate of 1976 who placed third with 46, 807 votes for the office of Secretary of State in this godforsaken state, has still got her opera diva's vocal chords in fine
fettle, and she's agreed to try out a brand-new number, the smash hit, "Red, Red Robbin," which is presently Number 1 on Kelly's Hit Parade!"
After this introduction, Ero wasn't sure he wanted to hear her any more than Crazy Dan back at the Union Station. But as he turned to go, he stopped, finding himself literally up against a blank wall. No door! This made Ero almost go crazy to discover without the slightest warning! He rushed the opposite direction, looking for a window, another door, any way out of the building.
Nothing! He could still break out if he could, by using the furniture, to
beat a hole in the wall, even though it looked like real brick. He wasn't going to be trapped like Crazy Dan!
But he was trapped, for Fast Lucie wasted no time, and with an almost deafening accompaniment of organ and bass guitar had begun belting out her
signature song. All this--the
bass guitar, the organ, Fast Lucie and the bawling man, was more than Ero could take. "Show me, show me, please, mister...show me the way to go home...
He was just about to run and ram his head against the wall if he had to in order to escape when Fast Lucie suddenly blinked her eyes and shut her mouth in the middle of a stanza and fell down at her reserved table. Her glass of blush wine was filled, and her pot of tea was refreshed, and Kelly and the bartender smiled despite her old legs collapsing under her like that, and the lovers at their table even looked up and grinned, then went right back to their
private conversation.
Fortunately, a door had appeared where it had been before, and seeing it Ero escaped
without a moment's hesitation. He burst out into the fresh air, and then
fled back up the street, just to get as far away as he could. Nothing, he was determined, was going to trap him like that again. He headed straight for the ship, running as fast as he could.
The steep hills, however, soon slowed him down. He grew confused. The streets all looked the same to him. He was trying to find the stadium he had seen, but he must have passed it, he thought. He kept going, in the direction of the waterfront where the Argo was tied up--at least he thought he was heading that direction. Coming down Carr Street, after what seemed like several miles, he saw the water ahead. But he
was footsore, and stopped to rest. At that moment he saw a simple frame house with a high gable, a porch and a sign above it titled "Seamen's Rest." A motherly looking woman in a flowing, old-fashioned, peasant-like black dress was standing on the porch, smiling and beckoning to him. A young blonde-braided girl, also dressed extremely old-fashioned in a long dress and a dark, lace-fringed cap, stood by her as if they were awaiting him.
"You're a young man from the White Ship," the woman said with a singsong
accent, "and I am Mrs. Funnemark, Christine's mother."
The young girl laughed and shook her braids.
The former Olympic torch bearer of the secular 22nd Century Crystal Age did not know what a mission was, Christian or otherwise, and had no desire to find out. Besides, the house had the strange look of being way out of its time period, by at least a couple centuries. How could he put it politely, that he wasn't interested in their hospitality and "comfort"? Then he thought of something. "I am probably late to my ship. They might leave without me."
Both women laughed! "Oh," Mrs. Funnemark said, "I've met your good captain already, and he agreed to lay over another day if any of his hands are late in returning. So come right in and have some coffee and doughnuts. Christine here will sing you a nice song at the piano! She plays well for her age, I think you will agree."
Ero could not resist that--he felt he was starving for food, for the first time since he disembarked. Anything, even these offered "doughnuts" sounded good to him right then. He hurried after the women into the house, and found himself in a parlor with overstuffed chairs, a lot of newspapers and books, a piano, and a highly polished table with a bouquet of flowers set on it in a tall crystal vase. Filled with embroidered pillows and lace doilies and needlework flags of Norway, it was a quaint though beautiful room, everything dusted and shining with polish and cleanliness. He saw a staircase at the side, leading to the second level, on which he heard slow, halting footsteps and a tapping with them. A mariner came down slowly and entered the parlor, greeted Mrs. Funnemark and Christine, who introduced him to Ero as Mr. Christolph, the sole survivor of the British clipper Atalanta that sank in Deception Pass. Mr. Christolph, unable to sail again from injuries in the Atalanta's sinking, using a cane, exchanged some books from the little library in the parlor, and taking a doughnut and some more coffee went even more slowly back up the stairs.
Mrs. Funnemark glanced at the old sailor as he went away. She smiled at Ero, observing, "Many sailors are like that, I find, toward the end of their seafaring. It is a dangerous, hard life they have. They start off so young, many of them mere boys who skip out of school if they can to run off to sea for the adventure of it. They are strong and courageous and good-hearted. That serves them for a time, but the hardships wear on them, and they turn old before their time. Without education, children in their minds, they fall prey to the temptations of the ports, many of them. All the money they earn is taken from them--so they never can save anything. When they finally are old, they suffer in their bodies, and need care. So when they come by here, we try to do whatever we can to ease them. They never remain here long, for their adventurous hearts always urge them to move on to some other place--always roaming, until they die in a lonely room somewhere. They like to be quiet here and remember their younger days, the good days, at sea, so we let them talk when they want to, or be silent if they wish! I am telling you all this, because you are just starting out, are you not?
Sitting down where the women showed him, Ero was handed a tray with a big pile of fresh doughnuts and a steaming cup of coffee. As he devoured the homemade but somewhat bland doughnuts (though he would have preferred roast goat with rice, some cheese and olives, Turkish coffee and dessert of marzipan), he heard
the girl begin singing at the piano, and her voice, though not remarkable, was sweet enough. He began to listen once his stomach pangs went away. Mrs. Funnemark refreshed his cup, and offered him cream and sugar.
The room was warm, and he felt so at ease there that his head fell back on the
couch, and the next thing he knew someone had laid a blanket over him, and
then gently guided his head to a pillow and his feet to the other end of the sofa, and he was oblivious to the world.
Her raised eyebrows and smile seemed to encourage him.
"What is this place"? he burst out. "Why are you doing this for me?"
Mrs. Funnemark glanced toward a gold-framed picture of a bearded sea captain over the fireplace mantel. "My husband and his ship and crew went down, all drowned--and so
I felt called of the Lord to do something for seamen if I could. I sold our home in
Norway, and here where we landed my daughter and I have tended seamen like you since then. We have never regretted it. So many sailors have come to our door--we have a guestbook you must sign before you leave and go back to your ship, young man."
Ero looked at the guestbook she had meanwhile picked up and was handing to him.
It fell open, and her eyes caught the names on the sheet. She started telling him about the entries, whom they represented.
After he listened to her tell something about each ship, he had to ask her something. "What is this city? I don't think I like being here. I want to leave. It is like no city I have ever known. Where are all the people?"
She smiled, but her eyes were not smiling. "It is called the City of Destiny, young man. It has three Gates, or three Doors--the Door of the World, the Door of Flesh, and this Door of Seamen's Rest Christine and I keep here for sailers like yourself--make of it what you will. You can leave this city now with your ship and good captain, but you must choose once you've come ashore. What door, what doors, did you choose, young man? For I know you have gone into the city before you came here."
She went out to the kitchen, leaving Christine and Ero in the parlor--who could not have presented a more strange sight.
Christine turned to Ero, who was embarassed to be left alone with her, though
she was too old-fashioned to his eye to be attractive.
The sea captain's daughter eyed him keenly, as one who knew sailors top to bottom, fore and aft. And she knew exactly what lanyards were, and what to pull to haul up the main sail or trim the jib sail too.
She held out a small, glossy-black book. "Here, read this please. It isn't very long. It will tell you
what the Door of Flesh is."
Ero took the book reluctantly, glancing at its title, "Diary."
Christine noticed his glance and explained. "It is a sailor's account of his time here. He came off the clipper, Dashing Wave."
Ero opened it to the first entries, and it was in English, but that was
one of the world's official languages, so he had no need for Christian to translate.
He began reading.
Oct. 29--"Was paid off this morning. Decided not to sign back on. Went to Seamen's Rest, but could not settle myself to read. Met a dandy fellow, sailor from Captain Wolvewoeld's clipper, Sea Wolf, took him around town...we had quite a spree. Turned up at the Rest slightly excited, but cold not sit still for five minutes...had to run out for more beer at Kelley's.
Oct. 30--"After dinner I went to the Rest, where I had a long talk with Miss Funnemark, being greatly touched by her wonderful faith in God.
Nov. 17--"Turned out 10:30 in a very uneasy state of mind, a sense of foreboding evil overpowers and smothers me like big black wings...met Miss Funnemark who told me I should not do anything crooked...am sure something is going to happen, tho' don't know what. At the Rest, heard of the loss of the Dashing Wave.
It went down off Alsea Bay, 16 miles south of Yaquina Bay, taking some of my chums. Would God do that if he were a good God as the Funnemarks tell me? I doubt it!
Nov. 18--"Captain Wolvewoeld returned to port, and is needing a few hands. Should I sign on or not? Can't decide. You have to sign on pretty much for life, with this skipper. Not sure I want to spend my whole life on his one vessel. Heard he was looking for hands down by Yaquina Bay near where the Dashing Wave, bound for Britain via the Horn, went down--but no sign of anything but the wheat cargo and some barrels on the beaches.
Nov. 19--"Got on a horrible drunk with the boys from the Sea Wolf, then went to the Rest...Oh, how I felt when I came to myself and found out where I had been and where I was."
Ero flipped through the next pages, all blank, then turned to Christine.
"Is that all?" he asked, surprised. "It is a very short account he wrote. Why isn't there more?"
Christine looked down. "But he chose and ended it exactly there. You see, he took his own life on November 20. Since the book was left here, we came into possession of it. He gave us no address when he signed our guestbook, so we can't sent it to his family or relatives.
Now do you understand what Mama meant by "Flesh" and the fateful Door it represents?"
Ero thought for a moment, shifting uncomfortably on the sofa, which seemed to
grow hot, then cold. He remembered Kelleys, and the sailor's account pictured
what happened to anyone who could not escape from there. Maybe he thought he could escape his desires if he killed himself? Maybe he thought that was the only way out? Was it? Ero could not be sure. He too had desires--and he had never dreamed that he should resist their control over him--not until, that is, he read the sailor's account and heard from Christine how he ended up. It made him think all the more. He could not resist asking something that had nagged him about Crazy Dan, and until now he had not been able to put it into words. This seemed to be his opportunity to get clear on the matter, before he shipped out with his captain. He rose and moved toward the door. "I gotta go, but I do have another question. What is the Door of the World?"
"You can be a slave to the desires of the flesh, which ultimately demand your soul in payment" she said. Ero, out of the porch, paused. It was quiet on the porch, then he was moved to aay, "I don't think I have been much of a slave to my desires, though I now see where they can lead a man. But the World? What is that?" She followed him down the steps. He eyes seemed to grip his. "The World? It is the lust of the eye and the pride of life that is in it. Men hunt the World's glittering gold, wealth and status, power and prestige--and they too will turn hunted and lose their souls when the World demands full payment. Remember, what the World gives so sweetly, it will someday take back, with shark's teeth. That is why you should not seek its honors and rewards, or if you do seek them, then don't give your heart to them."
Her words "they too will turn hunted..." and "it will someday take back, with shark's teeth" burning inside his heart, the former Olympic torch bearer walked quickly off.
"Good-bye!" she said. "You are always welcome at the Rest!"
Only when the high gable of the Funnemarks' home was out of sight did Ero realize he was carrying something. The diary! He took a few steps back toward the Rest, then stopped. He shook his head, then flung the suicide's last words into the bushes off to the side and continued on, hurrying to the White Ship, anxious as he was to get away from Kellys, Crazy Dan, and now Seamen's Rest.
Ero swore, but the buzzing only got worse as he went further down the road. Going back, he read what it had to say.
Furious, Ero gazed back up the road toward the Rest. Had the Funnemarks made trouble for him? How did anyone but them know he had not signed the guestbook and
thrown the diary?
Ero passionately hated the thought of being led around by a potato or a bean or a walking fish. And "Start again at the beginning?" He didn't like the sound of that. The very idea put him in a more sober attitude, and now cooperating he hurried back up the road--botless. He remembered where he had thrown the diary, and he was relieved when he saw it. If he had to face the Funnemarks again, they would be certain to ask about it.
Ero knocked on the door, not finding the Mrs. and Miss. Funnemark standing on the porch.
After four knocks still nobody answered, so he was about to turn away when he heard the tap-tap-tap of a cane approaching the door from within.
The shipwreck survivor opened the door and gaped at Ero as if he were
a complete stranger.
Irritated, Ero said: "I've come to return a book the Funnemarks loaned me..."
Before he could say any more, the old sailor turned and went away, leaving Ero standing there in the dloorway like a fool.
Not knowing what to do, he took a step in, and then saw the big note pinned to the
newly set up Christmas tree.
"Thank you for returning the Diary, which is our cherished keepsake, all we have of the
poor, lost sailor. And please don't forget to sign our guestbook. Before you go, help yourself to the doughnuts on the counter in the kitchen. There is milk in the cooler. We will be back presently, to greet another sailor and another ship when they come in. God be with you and keep you--Your servants in Christ, Mrs. Faith Funnemark, and Christine.
Stunned that the Funnemarks were so sure he was going to come back to the Rest,
Ero did as he was instructed. He signed the guestbook, then put the Diary down on the sofa where Christine had given it to him. He noticed another note, pinned to pillow decorated with the flag of Norway. It read, "Dear Ero, I hope you do not think I am too forward as a girl, but I hope we meet again. Remember there are three doors, and if you choose the right one, I promise you we will meet again. That would be most pleasing to me--Best Wishes, Christine. P.S. The clothes in the box on the porch were left by a sailor who has not come back for them, and we washed and ironed them for you. They look just your size.
Forgetting the doughnuts, Ero went out, closing the door. He had not seen a box by the coor when he came, but there was a box waiting for him. He popped the box open and found two sea-blue pants and shirts, socks, and canvas shoes and even a sailor's cap and scarf. Suddenly, he felt like he could use some warmer gear, as snow flakes began swirling down around him on the already whitened porch. He glanced up, surprised to find the sky thick with snowfall.
Shivering, he dressed quickly, and with the scarf and hat and thick socks and shoes, the blue flannel shirt and pants made him feel warm enough for the northern weather he was experiencing for the first time.
With the other change of clothes bundled into a kit that he stowed under his arm, he started off, his feet crunching in a foot of snow. He glanced back at the house, and it looked so cheerful, with a wisp of smoke from the chimney above the high gable, and a lantern lit in a window shining out on the drifted snow. It was beautiful. But a thought suddenly intercepted him. "Why not go and enjoy a few beers at Kelley's to warm you for the long voyage ahead?"
That sounded like a very fine idea to him, and he changed direction and headed toward the downtown section of the City of Destiny.
Strangely, the snowfall stopped right at the city limits and it grew warmer the closer he got to Kelley's. It was so hot he couldn't stand the shirt, and he stripped it off.
Again, he was a little out of synchonization in the allotted time frame, and he dropped his
kit on the ground, as he saw something ahead moving determinedly along the same route he was on.
A frog! It was hopping, making big hops, straight toward Kelley's Tavern.
Where was the high-pitched voice coming from? Not from a frog surely?
He caught up to it, and got it in his hand.
Ero, a look of horror coming over him, put the frog gently down on the
snowy sidewalk in front of Kelley's. He backed away, but not before he saw the frog vanish and Fast Lucie stand where the frog had been a momnt before. Still singing, she went in the door.
Kelley came out almost immediately, his big apron stained with the makings of pizza, beckoning to him with his arm. "You're just in time! Cmon in! You don't wanna miss the good times, Happy Hour, and Fast Lucie here doing the entertaining! You even get one free pull tab on the house after the first two beers--after that it's one freebie every four drinks. You can win yourself a bundle. We're all winners here--you'll see! It's just a matter of time!"
Ero backed away even further, then turned and ran. He heard Kelley yelling, and Fast Lucie too, but he soon put them out of sight and hearing as he raced back straight to the waterfront of old
Ruston and the White Ship.
He had to find out one thing--how he might be able to find a way out and back to his
home islands. Hope leaped in him. Quickly he began to climb up, to see what there was around him, and if he
could possibly catch a glimpse of his beloved islands and coasts from there.
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Before Atlantis, there was Mukalia. Atlantis learned a great deal from
the mother civilization, and continued many of its traditions. The power crystals, for instance, with the wisdom that made them so useful, transferred to Atlantis after what was left of Mukalia was being explored by long-tailed ratfish and giant squids on the bottom of the sea.
The Star of Bethlehem was something different from what the magi
understood it to be. It moved independently, stopping and going, leading them to the exact site of Yeshua's birth city, Bethlehem.
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In 22nd Century Greece, in the last hours of the Crystal Age, Ero, an Olympic Torch bearer, waits for the torch on a lonely road in the Peloponessos, the southern island that is the site of Olympia, where the Games started in classical Greek times thousands of years before. Little does he know as he waits impatiently for the torchbearer to show up, that his DNA specimen, taken by the Olympic commission shortly before, will ultimately land him in a far future time and place as an Argonaut.
The White Ship begins with an intermediate stage. Popup boards
appear from time to time to give them enough information to make their decisions.
Ero, the last Cyber-Argonaut to arrive, wings his way through cyber-space to his rendevous with the White Ship, or Argo V, and passes a number of remarkable objects on the way--valuable hardware from all eras of time caught up in a kind of airborne Ebay, only nobody could order any of it.
At the first anchorage, the Black Ship awaits the White Ship. Given shore leave, some of the flat-dimensioned pirates camp out and enjoy the local half-human fauna--which they serve up roasted, no matter how grotesque the creatures.
The pirate vessel, the Black Ship, lies at anchor, deceptively peaceful-looking. It unexpectedly, from time to time, changes shape, however, adding and subtracting decks and superstructure, fore and aft, as if it were gearing up for something. At this moment it looks like a Dutch merchant.
Captain Wolvewoeld is a man of long, varied experience--assault, murder, kidnapping, robbery, conspiracy, destruction of public property, sabotage, explosives, air piracy, extortion, and sedition. His Coat of
Arms (shown on the ship's pennant) is Argent, above two bars gules, three mullets gules. Crest-coronet. Crest: a demi-eagle rising sable. Motto, in Latin: Exitus Acta Probat (The End Justifies the Deeds). Initial device: Ww, fess point gules. He would have made (or perhaps he did) a good
Nazi SS officer.
Arrived on the White Ship, a Cyber-Argo, Ero has some adjusting to do.
The ship is really an airship before it takes to water, and it flies to its the appointed meeting place with its rival and opposite, the Black Ship.
The Argo V is towed to its anchorage by a Triton, or merman serving as a harbor pilot, that
is as powerful as any tugboat.
A cybernaut takes a look at Ero, but Ero, despite his open eyes, doesn't even see him.
Ero, as everyone else aboard has done, meets his skipper, Captain Pikkard. Along with being an oarsman, Ero is appointed ship's musician by Pikkard, as he can sing as well as an Orpheus ever sang for the first Argo and provide some cheer for the voyage, as soon as he can find or make himself a suitable guitar.
The cooks aboard the Black Ship, a black woman and her helper, are being mistreated. They desert to the White Ship, and Captain Pikkard, after hearing their story, gives them refuge. The Black Ship doesn't send anyone to pursue the women, but a cannon is aimed at the White Ship--and for a few moments it looks like they will be blown out of the water befor the game even begins. But the cannon retracts, and there s no outbreak of hostility. The women remain--to do the
White Ship's meals. Captain Pikkard sends them to the galley, what there is of a galley aboard so small a ship.
As the cyber-Argo, the White Ship, sails the upper part of the Puget Sound of the
Northwest, romance breaks out almost as soon as the ship comes into sight of a tribe of some lovelorn women on the shore.
Captain Pikkard is the last one to stand in the way of romance and marriage (which go together like a horse and carriage in vitual reality), and a Cyber-Argonaut knight weds his sweet lady love.
Yet as the wives of sailers all know when they make their solemn vows, there is going to have to be separation for a time when the ship leaves port, as all ships must do to complete their voyages. After a brief but poignant honeymoon on a secluded island beach for the married couple, the White Ship continues on its way, entering a swift-currented channel that sweeps it between the halves of a ruined bridge. Where is the Black Ship, by the way? They have not seen it in days, and that is not necessarily a good sign.
Even in the Cyber-Spatial Inland Sea of the Puget Sound, there are
treacherous rocks with ship-smashing rip tides and sneaker waves--sure doom for
any passing vessels. The White Ship just barely clears, losing a bit of its
stern ornament.
Each ship is allowed three turbo thrusts. To escape the pirates, who were waiting just on the other side of the Clashing Rocks, Captain Pikkard chose his option to escape with only the loss of his tail feathers. The White Ship reappeared just off Point Defiance, Tacoma, or what was Tacoma in the 1970's before it was hit by a 9.7 killer quake that dropped the whole peninsula and outlying areas into a hole that nearly reached China.
Sent ashore to provision the ship and have a look around, the crew
dispersed. Ero went walking along the Ruston village beachfront, which had been a scene of liveliness decades earlier with lumberyards, boat-building, a fising fleet marina, and busy docks lined with
ships from all over.
After a look around at some other oddities, he went back down the steep streets to the
waterfront, which suited him more, being a sea-loving Greek.
Grunting with disgust, Ero backed away and then ran back to the road. He hoped he would never be forced to kill and eat such a pallid, mixed-up creature.
As he walked along the side of Commencement Bay, gazing across it to the hills on the other side and then at a big stadium in the hillside, with a hotel-like building above it, he wondered what he would find in the city that lay beyond.
Going in out of curiosity, he found it empty, except for one man sitting at a two-legged table, playing solitaire. The fellow, dressed in boots and fisherman's gear, hardly noticed him, though the two of them could not make a stranger pair.
Crazy Dan, hardly looking up from his cards, introduced himself. He had been a great man in the area once, when there were still a lot of people. Where they all went, he had no idea. It was a pretty dull place, he said, now that he had only Kelly's Tav just down the block to wet his whistle, and this place, the old Union Station which no longer ran trains full of people heading for Seattle or Portland.
Now it was just him, and the pigeons in the dome. Ero looked up. The dome fascinated him. He wondered if he could climb up from the outside and get a view of the whole city from it. Crazy Dan, however, continued talking, telling Ero his whole life story, or a good part of it. Biggest dang Ford dealership in the whole Northwest! He got to the top by taking sledge hammers and smashing his own cars in the lot. That really got folks to give him attention. Once he got their attention, he could get their money. And he was a millionaire before his hammer arm got tired! With his dough he planned to build the biggest mansion on Mercer Island. He planned to invite Seattle's hoity toity nobs over to his place and show them a real Picasso! That would draw them in for sure. Then he would show them the rest of his swanky estate--the indoor pool with the real Orca whale in it, and other things he had dreamed of buying while he was raking it in down at the dealership. Once he sold it--that is--he'd make all his golden dreams come true. But that dang earthquake interrupted everything--and he had just time to grab his hat and head for the door like you're supposed to do when...well, he and the door dropped, and here he was, the next thing he knew. It was Tacoma, but it wasn't Tacoma.
No people! Or just a handful, that is--the ones that hung out at Kelly's old watering hole.
He reached the dome finally, which sat on what looked like a set of big metal teeth.
At last Ero could sit and take the view. "What mountain is that?" he wondered idly. It overshadowed the whole view, and the city was a small spot on its side, seemingly, seen from his unobstructed vantage point.
The mountain was so close, it seemed he could touch it. Rising to his feet, just to amuse himself he reached out, and drew his hand back as if he had been bitten. His eyes widened. He had touched the mountain! He knew he had done it. But how?
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Now picture this, ladies and gentlemen! These two nuns are being molested..." he always began, for it was the same string of jokes night after night after night.
Her wobbling voice somehow missing every note at which she aimed, she finished the first stanza of "When the Red, Red Robin comes bob-bob-bobbin' along...along!" Then another stanza
followed, and another! Ero's head was spinning with all the bobbin', bobbin', and bobbin' of the lyrics, when she switched to a second number, "Show Me the Way to Go Home." The moment she started that, a man sitting with his hands over his mouth as he gaped at her with bulging, soulful eyes, burst out bawling, "It's too late! Too late!"
Interested, drawn to them despite his desire to get back aboard the White Ship, he
gave in and went over to the porch where they stood, unwavering eyes fixed on him.
Put at ease by her kind manner, Ero nodded. "What do you have here, a hotel or boarding house?"
"No, it is a Christian mission, but as a seafarer you are most welcome to stay and rest until your ship departs. Please do come in! We will try to make it at least half as comfortable for you as you have it back in your home country."
When he awoke, he found Mrs. Funnemark sitting by him in a chair, working on some kind of knitting in her wicker basket. She saw he was awake, and then put the basket down on the highly polished, fir-planked floor.
Ero did not like such questions, but they made him think, and Greeks
like to think even more than sailing a good ship over the sea.
Mrs. Funnemark, gathering the plates and napkins, turned to Christine. "Dear, you tell him, while I go and wash up. If I need you to come and tidy things a bit more, I'll call."
Oct. 19--"This is Jack London, seaman, able and ready for anything, come hell or high water. Shipped in Dashing Wave laid at Tacoma...Discovered that Mrs. and Miss Funnemark keep a Seamen's Rest on Carr St., Old Town. Paid them a visit & enjoyed myself immensely.
He was almost all the way down Carr Street, which turned into a Skid Road for the big logs that fed the mills on the waterfront, when a pop-up board caught him, buzzing off to one side of the road, on high grassy shoulder.
QUESTOR MUST RETURN TO THE SEAMEN'S REST HOUSE, AND SIGN THE GUESTBOOK. YOU MUST ALSO RETURN THE DIARY YOU THREW AWAY. PRESS SPACEBAR ONCE IF YOU UNDERSTAND INSTRUCTIONS. OTHERWISE, PRESS THE HELP BUTTON FOR FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS, MAP OF THE AREA, AND ROAD DIRECTIONS. IF THESE ARE INSUFFICIENT TO GUIDE YOU, CHOOSE ANY BOT ON THE SIDEBAR, AND IT WILL LEAD YOU TO THE HOUSE.
The almost deafening, microphonish crackle and buzz of the pop-up board would not quit until he hit the spacebar at the bottom of the screen. He hit it twice, and a bell sounded, and a deep voice almost shouted him off his feet, "THREE STRIKES AND YOU'RE OUT! QUESTOR WILL COMPLY WITH INSTRUCTIONS OR START THE QUEST AGAIN AT THE BEGINNING. CHOOSE ANY BOT--WALKING FISH, JUMPING JELLY BEAN, ROLLING POTATO...IF YOU CANNOT FIND THE HOUSE ON YOUR OWN."
Wally had done an excellent job programming the Quest from start to finish, and all the details too showed his amazing foresight.
Not only were Ero's feet as tough as leather, which made shoes unnecessary, but he did not feel cold and could run about like any Olympic torch bearer back in warm and sunny Greece. Yet even Wally had not anticipated everything. Returning to Seamen's Rest was now past the time of the time frame allotted to the Funnemarks.
It was startled for a few moments and clammed up, but as he waited, it slowly began singing again, "When the Red Red Robbin Comes Bob-Bob-Bobbin' Along!"
Brun O'Kele, the Hawaiian chief, has his own coastline, without a
single condo or hotel to spoil the view, ever since a world-wide tsunami and other terra-forming events completely changed the landscape of his native islands.
An Atlantean ship searches for a pair of humans in the Hawaiian islands they can use to
repopulate South America.
Having searched most of the islands, the Atlantean ship finally finds what it has come for--a lone
male human out fishing for his dinner.
One moment Brun's sailing along in a good breeze that will take him
beyond the reef where the big fish are snatching at the smaller reef fish, the next moment he is being dragged into the air--his arms and legs flailing helplessly
like some tentacled creature he has caught with his gaff.
Swallowed by a mouth set in the belly of the big flying ray fish, Brun finds himself in
a cage. He overturns it, trying to get out. The room darkens, and he cannot see
where he is--and he subsides, realizing it is useless to struggle--but determined
to kill anything or anyone the moment he has a chance to see what he is doing.
How long he has been a captive, he has little time to estimate, as the light blazes, blinding him, and then he hears waves washing beneath the room. Suddenly, the cage door pops open, and Brun wastes no time in departing. Without having to think, he leaps through the mouth of the flying ray fish.
Before he can heave rocks at the flying ray fish, it vanishes, leaving him back on the shore of his island. But as he looka around, it seems different somehow from his native island. The colors are different, and the scents are not the same. A horror comes over him, and he staggers toward
some rocks and climbs up, just to steady himself. Where is he? His mind reels at the thought he has been taken to an unknown land and set free.
It dawns on him.
No fish had a belly like the one he had been in. It was not flesh. It was not wood nor stone. It was hard, but smoother than any stone--like the hard and sharp-cutting black glass the smoking mountains made. And it had captured him and released him in a strange and alien land!
He stopped climbing, and then he saw it was not a sea, though it was
large and bigger than any lake he had known--and the strange color--too dark to be crystal clear and brilliant waters of his own land. Where was he? Would he ever be able to sail back to his home? he wondered, his heart pounding like heavy surf and feeling like it might stop beating.
His feelings for his lost homeland aside, Adam is available, but now where is Eve?
Retro Star and Twin Worlds Timelines
The Black Crystal and the White Stone
Bridges of Destiny
The Algol Invasion & Client Species
Universe Terminator: The Sardius, Carnelian, Red Star, Stone of Fire, Fiery Stone, the First Alien Entity, OP, Wormwood, Wormstar, Retrostar
Map of Holland America
Extraterrestrials and Terrestrials
The Topaz
Star Map of the Re-Located Earth, Twin Earth Atlas, Stellar and Terrestrial
Argo, Ships of the Line
Volume IV, Appendix, Part I
Volume IV, Appendix, Part II
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