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February 05, 2008 04:38 AM EST --
By Sacred Consent
(c) 2007, Basil Sands
It all started here
A short story
Containing two words
As prescribed by someone I never knew
Fuzzy Edges
That's all it took . . .
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August 12, 2007 02:53 PM EDT --
"Here be dragons."
Mitchell held up the map and showed it to his companions.
"That's what it says."
Freddie looked at him with a sardonic . . .
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August 01, 2007 03:34 AM EDT --
My first novel, "Karl's Last Flight", which first came out here on Gather is now available as a free audio book in MP3 format on my website, www.basilsands.com. Please check it out . . .
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May 04, 2007 03:52 PM EDT --
Karl's last flight
(c)2006, Basil Sands
Sweat ran off his face in late afternoon sun. The heat was dry, burning his throat and lips with every inhalation. How in the world did he let this . . .
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April 28, 2007 08:17 PM EDT --
Faces
©2007, Basil Sands
The budding green tips
Of the birch along the stream bank
Peek from their resting places
As they uncoil in the warm spring air
The stream beneath me bubbles
Along it’s . . .
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April 27, 2007 11:18 PM EDT --
Chapter 40
Columbus Memorial Hospital
January 18th, 2012
Hogan was aware of his friends standing over him, although he wasn’t sure how long they had been there or, for that matter, how long he . . .
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April 27, 2007 11:15 PM EDT --
Chapter 39
Two days after the Ohio State vs. Michigan game, Francis Beauregard Snively was sitting in the posh office of Snively Wholesale Shoe Distributors. His business had been brisk and quite . . .
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April 27, 2007 11:12 PM EDT --
Chapter 38
Picktown Ohio
9:55 pm
Billy Z pulled the white Chevy Impala into a quiet area of Sycamore Creek Park in the city of Picktown. He followed the dirt road that led around the . . .
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April 27, 2007 11:09 PM EDT --
Chapter 37
Hogan ended the cell call with Andy Fleiss and was putting the phone back in his pocket when shouts came from between the RV’s where the team had followed Ring.
“Get out . . .
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April 27, 2007 11:05 PM EDT --
Chapter 36
Billy Z was following the route he had been given on the gps unit. He had just turned from Olentangy River Road onto King street when he was surprised to see a man flagging him down. . . .
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April 27, 2007 11:03 PM EDT --
Chapter 35
The phone on Paul Hogan’s desk rang loudly, waking him out of the deep slumber he was enjoying in his office chair. Mike Farris rose from the couch along the wall as Hogan answered . . .
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April 20, 2007 12:26 AM EDT --
Chapter 34
Ronald Henderson was a train engineer extraordinaire.
“Most people think that being a train engineer is easy.” He often told his wife, “Because they think that hey, you know, . . .
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April 20, 2007 12:23 AM EDT --
Chapter 33
Saturday October 29th, 2011
South of Columbus Ohio
0300 am
Billy Z., legally known as Detective William Coffee, had been an undercover narcotics officer in Columbus for five years. He . . .
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April 20, 2007 12:21 AM EDT --
Chapter 32
Friday October 28th, 2011
FBI Headquarters
19:30 pm
Farris and Hogan had spent the entire afternoon and evening in the area surrounding the Ohio stadium inspecting the security and trying . . .
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April 14, 2007 02:00 PM EDT --
Welcome to Karl's Last Flight. This is the abridged version of my first novel, about a astronaut who is unexpectedly earthbound and struggling for his life in a situation he had . . .
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April 07, 2007 02:43 PM EDT --
Chapter 30
Friday October 28th, 2011
FBI Headquarters
11:30 am
Hildegard Rottbruck stood quietly beside Mike Farris as he described to her and Paul Hogan what had happened to Harry Johnson at his church. . . .
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April 07, 2007 02:29 PM EDT --
Chapter 29
Friday October 28th, 2011
2:45 am
State Route 16, east of Columbus Ohio
On the drive back to Columbus Mike managed to fall into a deep sleep for what felt like hours. As the deepest . . .
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April 07, 2007 02:16 PM EDT --
Chapter 28
Jajce, Bosnia
September 1998
Captain Farris lay very still. So still that several mice had actually run over his back and scurried away without even taking notice of the presence of . . .
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April 01, 2007 02:38 AM EDT --
The heat had been unrelenting in this east African desert. For all the months that Captain Farris had been in this land the temperature had hovered near one hundred degrees or higher every day. . . .
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April 01, 2007 01:27 AM EDT --
Chapter 27
Billy Z picked up his cell phone and dialed the number linked to the name Jazzy Jeff in his contacts list.
“Sup?” said the deep voice on the other end.
“Yo, . . .
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