A Mother’s Son
By
Mackey Chandler
Theodore looked out the narrow port of the ballistic express and watched the glare of the sun disappear behind the curve of the earth. He’d be on the ground six hours before it managed …
Ball and Chain – A stand alone short
Ball and Chain
Mackey Chandler
“It’s this damn Slump,” Tim Kirkland grumped. “There’s no market for even Earth mined materials, how can Luna possibly develop an economy without exports? If it wasn’t for defense they’d have probably pulled back …
Godzilla sort of scene – snippet
This is from late in April past where I will snippet chapters. It deals with Home making war on North America. I hope I get the epic disaster flavor right-
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Martin Crain was seven hours into his work day. …
“April” Chapter 3 The Main Character
Our heroine finally shows up:
Chapter 3
Monday morning, nine o’clock was three hours into main-shift on Mitsubishi 3. April Lewis was listening to the Earth news for October 4, 2083 while she walked to the cafeteria to meet her …
“April” 2nd Chapter snippet
This is still story intro. April is introduced in the next chapter.
Chapter 2
At the other end of M3 another agent of the USNA had also experienced some difficulty. He was in fact, one of the spooks Art had …
“April” First Chapter Snippet
Building on Prologue posted last – book is done at 200k words. A big fat book.
Chapter 1
Art checked the time again. It was 09:27, Sunday, Oct 3, 2083. He was finally past the three day hold he’d been …
Prologue to the book “April”
As an alternative to the last two previous snippets posted about alien contact, I have a book further along about a space habitat set in a much closer time frame. Here is the opening prologue for that book:
APRIL…
And generations later…
The world of aliens with a racial memory described in the prologue posted last meet men. Those with the advantage of perfect memory have spread through the world and subdued it. It would be a very homogenous society but accidents …
Prologue for new book
I would like to consider what would happen if humans meet a race with perfect memory – not just of their own life but a encyclopedic memory of their ancestor’s lives. That line of thought made me consider – How …
Shorts – Get no respect
It’s hard to make money with short stories. The effort to sell them is more than to write them. And bad writing seems to show up more clearly when you can’t hide it in a nice fat book. I’m going …