I Hear You_Pea-Soup Fog_DIG #235_Gone
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I Hear You
Let’s start with a little background. My name is Jan and I am a fossil from a pre-technological era. My 32 plus year career was spent working as a manager in a large telecommunications company. While in Human Resources, I traveled in the five-state area. I also lived and worked with three different sister companies within the parent corporation. The majority of my career was spent in Operator Services which functioned with responsibilities as the name of the department implies. Some of you may not remember, once upon a time, you could dial “0” and get a real, live person to make a long-distanc...
Pea-Soup Fog
Pea-Soup Fog The cold salt spray stung my face, keeping me awake. This 60-degree ocean is no place to be without a wetsuit on. How long have I been in the water and how did this happen to me?Heading back home alone after a beautiful day out on the water, I enjoyed listening to the luffing of the sails. Whop, whop, whop ─ music to my ears. Close to rounding the familiar rocky point ahead, I decided to drop the mainsail and enter the harbor using just the smaller jib. While untying the mainsail ropes, a gust of wind suddenly came up out of nowhere...
DIG #235
“Seek and ye shall find…” The script in English was cut deep into the wall of the ancient structure recently revealed at Dig #235、 The young archaeologist trembled as her brush swept sand from the last word. How long ago had humans lived on this world? This was always a key question in the work of interstellar archaeologists. She had been assigned to this section of the dig to search for clues about the human diaspora as historians had come to call the centuries of humans migrating across the Universe. There was documentation from archaeological evidence collected, sifted, cataloged, and archi...
Gone
“Cross my palm with silver, young man and I shall tell you what I see in your future!”Gerald scratched his head and stared into the blue face. Was this a face he could trust? Should he be—as Brother Martin cautioned when he gave him the day off—cautious? “How do I know what you say is true?”The man straightened huffily and his blue skin seemed to glow. “You question the Blue Haruspex?”“Well . . . I . . .”“If I may interject.” Gerald’s friend, Frederick whispered loudly into Gerald’s ear, “You are right to question. I see not any entrails.”Gerald nodded, then looked puzzled. “Entrails?” “A tru...