The battle cry of the unrepentant Capitalist. It is what drives Americans as a credo and defines their lives. From the youngest demands of Gimme, Gimme, I Want to the adult belief Why Yas, I Deserve It. The basic belief that resources are infinite because they have to be. Competition that must end in a winner and a loser and winners are good and losers are not as good. Cooperation is for losers.

As a group, we have to realize we are avarice junkies, addicted to accumulation without a care about why or what impact it has on anyone or anything else. The saddest part is the accompanying arrogance and hubris that lets us think humanity will somehow survive the next global shutdown, just like it did the previous ones. The clock is ticking and the odds that even the greatest Hail Mary Pass may not even be enough to recover.

I added some info to go along with Opus. It was written back in 84 based on a weird dream I had. Over the next 20 odd years I added 4 more shorts that I figured would never get published or sold due to the cameo appearances in them by published characters. I’m pretty sure all the authors concerned have crossed the Rainbow Bridge and I tried to be as respectful as I could but who knows.

They were fun to write, hope they are fun to read. They are the opening volleys in a long running space opera series that never really attained lift off.

ETA: Stories can be read online or downloaded and read with a pdf reader program. Just click on the blue titles on the right to open.

Shaggy Dog is now included in Peregrinations

It will take me a liddle bit to figure out how to get this thing working the way I’d like because it has been a while.

Thanks for joining me!

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton