Aaron Michael Grant
Bio
Grant retired from the United States Marine Corps in 2008 after serving a combat tour 2nd Tank Battalion in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He is the author of "Taking Baghdad," available at Barnes & Noble stores, and Amazon.
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Macro Heist
Stealing from the people was never so easy. Since WWII the Great Republic had been creating currency. Superpowers like Britain, France, and Germany had tried to devalue money and failed. They failed because they had a secondary currency, and a secondary global economy. The Republic was the premier currency; the premier economy, and the elected did as they pleased. The people and politicians got used to inflation saying, “Why should we care; why worry? Headlong! All will be well.”
By Aaron Michael Grant3 years ago in Fiction
Anderson's Prize
Winston lay weeping like so many times before. The toddler loved the woods so much his passion got ahead of him: he was alone. He looked this way and that - craving the sight of the mother he just left, and wept face down in the leaves. In the never-ending forest, nothing else mattered but mommy. Not the sunlight beaming upon his face, not the perfect October afternoon, not even the brilliant color fall held around the curled little boy. He shook, a helpless baby sobbing in a wild, foreign world. Yet, the pitiful sound was carried by the breeze, and heard by the most unlikely creature imaginable.
By Aaron Michael Grant3 years ago in Fiction
Bubble-Gum Conscience
You knew it when it happened. You will always remember the first day you took something without asking. You stole it, and depending on your character, you stopped immediately or continued being a thief. Yes, you knew it was wrong by the rush of adrenaline, and quick heartbeat. You knew it when your knees shook, and you knew it by the emotion that came with it. Yes, that day is a story of all of us, and you have a similar one in a billion different places, and billions of different outcomes.
By Aaron Michael Grant4 years ago in Families
Titanic to Dunkirk
He was crazy. He must have been crazy. They knew they were submerged in the boiler room, and out of the creeping, freezing water came Charlie; second officer of the Titanic who drew a breath the moment his face hit oxygen. He was underwater nearly a minute. A high officer, third in command of the ship; was out to save the trapped, snot-nosed coal-workers.
By Aaron Michael Grant4 years ago in Fiction
Context is Everything
Just a few days before Christmas, an old marine walked into a government complex and smashed a voting machine with a hammer. He immediately placed the document “Natural Sovereignty” down amongst the shattered pieces that explained why.
By Aaron Michael Grant4 years ago in Confessions
