Douglas A Breeden
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Jonathan Ray Takes a Trip
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. This is what many believe, it is the big line in the Alien films, but is it true? It was not something Jonathan Ray thought about much in his sixty some years on planet Earth, he had enough problems without adding new ones. He and his wife Mable had not engaged sex in ten years, and there are some medical problems that played a part, but the biggest reason was he had no desire for any relations with the woman. He knew his thirty-something long marriage was a mistake, but he did not have the resources to move out, so like so many things in his life, he was stuck. Jonathan recently retired from a job in accounting that he had no love for, another thing he got stuck in. He wanted to major in paleontology and dig for dinosaurs and prehistoric mammals, but his family intervened. His father and brother both said he had a talent for computers and numbers, and an MBA would be his ticket to a great life.
By Douglas A Breeden4 years ago in Fiction
Dragons in the Valley
There weren’t always dragons in the valley. Once, in the time before time, the time before civilization and the sapiens building cities and farms, the valley was at peace and all lived in harmony, it was when Grannus and Nantosuetta lived in the spirit city of Norumbega in the shadow of Mount Katahdin, along the Penobscot River. It was a city surrounded by seven pillars of gold and encrusted with pearls, given up by the oysters in the bay of the Great Sea. The people drink the milk of the maple tree and ate of the bounty that the Gia had supplied from the land, from the Great Sea to the Great River that flowed to the land of the Gitchee Gomee. There also lived the Cherokee fire goddess, Kanaueski and her friend the Norse Freya, they kept the secrets of fire, the thing that was the transformer of all things. They lived in peace, until the great fire demon of the Island of Ice came looking for gold and pearls. He had slipped out of the bonds the Norse gods had placed him in the Cave of Surtr.
By Douglas A Breeden4 years ago in Fiction
