J smith kirkland
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An attempt to write without plotting, put two characters in a situation, sees what happens. Quickly became a first attempt at SciFi.
1 Aber Crombie
2 Simon Herbert
3 Webster Zirkman
may be a 4th to tie every thing up with a pretty loose bow
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Journal Of Webster Zirkman 3
CHAPTER THREE The message from Herbert made Aber determined to follow through on our plans to go through The Rip today. We check all the equipment and load it onto the truck. I have been preparing for this moment, but the adrenaline is more than I expected. I am about to step into another universe, or dimension, or reality. My mind is spinning with anticipation. But there is one question I have been dying to ask Aber.
By J smith kirklandabout a year ago in Chapters
ABOUT Sympathetic Resonance
About: Sympathetic Resonance Blurb: Jemison Thorsby is a paranormal debunker. He is renown for exposing fake videos and psychics. But his big secret is that all he really wants to do is find is a real medium, someone who really sees ghosts, just like he does.
By J smith kirklandabout a year ago in Chapters
Sympathetic Resonance
CHAPTER 1 - Life Of The Party “It was a great party.” Jemison looks towards the voice. He is not startled by the man sitting in the comfy chair in the corner of his bedroom. It's not the first time that Walton Kensington has been there after Jemison awakes from a dream, or feels a sudden temperature drop.
By J smith kirklandabout a year ago in Chapters
Journal Of Webster Zirkman 2
CHAPTER TWO We pull the truck into a maintenance shed. And I start to grab some equipment, but Aber stands and look toward the storm. I suggest that it might turn away from the station. It didn't seem to be moving directly at us. He says we need to check the schedule for the next transport out and walks into the station. As I follow, we hear the station speakers blast a notification.
By J smith kirklandabout a year ago in Chapters
Journal of Aber Crombie 2
CHAPTER TWO Today we chose 323 degrees for our trek. My WristWear has a compass showing the cardinal directions and 360 degree graduations. As long as the communication satellites are working around any planet, it is extremely accurate. Herbert has an old physical nautical compass given to him by his grandfather, whose grandfather gave to him, and so forth. It shows magnetic north. It also has an inner circle with the 32-point compass rose corresponding to the 0 to 360 degree graduations. It's a pretty cool antique. We occasional compare the readings along our walks. They are always the same.
By J smith kirklandabout a year ago in Chapters
Journal Of Webster Zirkman 1
CHAPTER ONE “The instruments are going crazy!” I watched as Aber rushed from one device to another. I told him to stay calm. We could figure this out. He froze. Then collecting all his strengths, calmly but with decided confidence and extreme urgency, he looked me in the eye and said we had to run. Something was about to come through The Rip. Something big. He didn't know what it was, but he didn't think we should be standing in it's path.
By J smith kirklandabout a year ago in Chapters
Journal Of Simon Hebert 7
CHAPTER SEVEN I have made a file about the people Webby marks. It contains more info that I should ethically have collected, but I justify it to myself by saying it is for science. It has to be done to understand The Rip, a never before seen cosmic anomaly. That's what I tell myself as I prepare to send it to Aber before I leave for Marvin's planet tomorrow. I am asking him to see what he can find out about them on that side. My suspicion is that they all no longer exist there. I also suspect that he and I no longer exist here on this side. But for some reason I am having trouble getting up the nerve to ask Pretentious for our histories.
By J smith kirklandabout a year ago in Chapters
Journal Of Simon Herbert 8
CHAPTER EIGHT The others are thinking about how to let people know they might be late at their destinations. I am wondering if this is one of those ten day storms, and what will happen if it hits this station. I realize I have neglected to contact Aber. I was thinking I could do that after the others left, but I feel some urgency now.
By J smith kirklandabout a year ago in Chapters
Journal Of Aber Crombie 5
CHAPTER FIVE I didn't have to prompt Herbert to ask where exactly it was we were supposed to be going. Marvin looks very confused by the question. Herbert explains that we had been waiting for our transport for days now, and the names of our intended destinations. Marvin, initially not at all phased by two strangers entering his secret laboratory on a deserted planet, now looks at us as if we were unidentifiable creatures who crawled out of the shadows. After a moment, he asks what planets we came from. I am from Valko, and Hebert is from Tiozeven. Our answers do not seem to make him any more comfortable.
By J smith kirklandabout a year ago in Chapters
The Journal Of Aber Crombie 4
CHAPTER FOUR Herbert says Humanoids and other mammals leave trace signatures of a unique collections of microbes on everything we touch. The microbes on our skin are almost as good as DNA for identifying an individual. The microbe detector identified and cataloged our individual microbe colonies when we first turned it on, and it ignores us when looking for other signs of life. Otherwise it would be beeping constantly. I tell him the communication systems that I install have a similar way of detecting individuals, and uses a persons unique electrical emissions to tag communications. I don't know why that is not how you login to a system instead of the archaic password method. Herbert says they tried other ways in the past, finger prints for example. Turned out the finger print on a dead or severed hand would get people into a system just fine. Microbes had the same flaw, but he thought the electrical emissions might be a better approach. Then he pointed out that I was not focusing on our problem in the current situation.
By J smith kirklandabout a year ago in Chapters
Journal of Aber Crombie 1
CHAPTER ONE I still have not come to grasps with the giant sun in the red sky. Herbert says the sky is red because the sun is a red dwarf. And the sun is huge because the habitable zone around a red dwarf is much closer to the sun than what I am used to. That's what Herbert tells me anyway. And that's the reason it is so much colder here than I am used to. There are a lot of things here I am not used to.
By J smith kirklandabout a year ago in Chapters
Journal Of Aber Crombie 3
CHAPTER THREE We wake up earlier than usual today. The excitement of the adventure ahead of us I suppose. After realizing there was a garden tractor and cart in the green house, we estimate how far it could go on one fully charged battery. Uncertain of the actual distance, we are hopeful it will be enough to get there and back. And maybe even get there before sunset. I start to point out to Herbert that we should have used this mode of transportation all along on our daily walks. But then I think, we saw more details on foot, and it was good exercise. Beside, I enjoy our walks.
By J smith kirklandabout a year ago in Chapters
