30 Apr The Doom Tower Experiments

Posted at 11:00h in Conspiracies and Government, Jobs and Occupations, Military and Warfare, Science and Experimentation 0 Comments

On Davidson Avenue, one mile east of Highway 164 and East Main Street Intersection, sits the entrance to Hillcrest Park, home of the now defunct Nike Missile Base, known to the Waukesha, Wisconsin locals as The Old Hillcrest Doom Tower. From 1956 to 1964 the...

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25 Apr The Living History Project

Posted at 11:00h in Artifacts and Objects, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Historical Fiction, Journals and Diaries, Locations and Sites, Military and Warfare, Strange and Unexplained, Technology, the Internet, and the Deep Web 0 Comments

One of my least favorite parts about being a middle school history teacher is the bullshit “Living History” assignments we give at the end of every school year. Kids are supposed to sit with their grandparents and video tape, voice record, or transcribe their oldest...

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16 Oct The Pocket Watch

Posted at 16:00h in Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Military and Warfare 0 Comments

When I was a child there was nothing to eat. I was the eldest of five, so it was my job to make sure that I always let my brothers and sisters eat before me. War was inching inward from the coast, and as it...

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10 Oct An Old Man’s Last Secret

Posted at 16:00h in Military and Warfare, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

My grandfather is 95 years old and doesn't have long left in this world. There’s nothing but a mess of tubes and wires to tether him here with us. It’s difficult for him to speak, but each rasping whisper carries a severe weight that cannot...

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01 Jul Leo: Avraham’s Angel

Posted at 16:00h in Beings and Entities, Conspiracies and Government, Military and Warfare, Science and Experimentation, Science Fiction and Aliens 0 Comments

Avraham looked about his new laboratory with both pride and trepidation. In the dim light, he could make out the shapes of tables, crates, and the special piece of equipment that he had requested – all draped under sheets to keep the dust off. He...

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22 Feb Human Nature

Posted at 08:03h in Apocalyptic and Dystopian, Locations and Sites, Military and Warfare, Science Fiction and Aliens, Space and Cosmic Horror, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

Laura pulled her cellphone out of its storage compartment and queued up the first video before wondering if she really should watch it again.  They had, technically, only been in space for eight hours with another seventy-two yet to go and she’d already viewed the...

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19 Feb The Only Vietnam Story I’ve Never Told

Posted at 10:42h in Locations and Sites, Military and Warfare 0 Comments

“Better Run Through the Jungle” My name is Michael Hasford. I am seventy-two years old and I have terminal bowel cancer. I haven’t told anyone this story in nearly fifty years, the last time being before I was made to sign the State Secrets Act and...

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17 Oct Blue Light

Posted at 00:00h in Historical Fiction, Locations and Sites, Military and Warfare 35 Comments

A bomb went off in the city. It happened on Monday. Today is Thursday. My dad was there. He hasn’t come back yet. I’ve been sitting at the window every day waiting for him to come home. Mom says the bomb interrupted the electric grid in the...

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29 Jul Vae Victis

Posted at 00:00h in Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Locations and Sites, Military and Warfare 17 Comments

17-MAY-2008 Fort Huachuca, Arizona Just like the old marching cadence, it's the“Same old shit again” indeed. And now here I am marching my own Soldiers off to one of several pre-deployment briefings being held today. Most of it’s just the usual mandatory stuff, what to do...

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