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Stateline by Dave Stanton -- Hardboiled Crime Fiction at Its Finest!

Then a tormented female voice from the front cried out, "Sylvester is dead!" The crowd froze for a moment. And then chaos ensued. "I'm Deputy Sheriff Marcus Grier of the Silverado Sheriff's Department City of South Lake Tahoe." The ballroom was deathly still. "I have soe terrible news to report. "There's been a tragic accident, and the wedding is canceled. I'm afraid that's all I can say now. Please exit the ballroom in an orderly fashion for your own safety. Grier stepped down from the stage. A stunned silence engulfed the room, the moment was so abrupt and so utterly inconceivable that I thought it might be some kind of morbid practical joke. A hushed murmur rose from the crowd and built into a crescendo as people near the front surrounded the cops and beseiged them with questions. More people surged forward, a man fell and cried out in pain, and one officer pulled his billy club as he was pushed back against the pulpit. Ano

The Doppler Affect by Shawn Phillips --BRH Meets Fantasci Devotee Sharing How Dopplers will Effect Change...

The Species Natural Form Is this a human doppelganger or... or did she??? If you've heard the word doppelganger and checked it out on the Internet, you would be surprised how much information can be found. A lot of it, like the pic to the left is about two humans who very much look alike...some have even compared humans to animals and other "things." But in the scifi area, you will find that some people actually believe that they are a separate species, that just happens to look like humans... Well, that's partly true, but actually I was able to find at least one source, D&D Wiki, who reveals the actual form. Doppelgangers are also known as shapeshifters, thus they are able to change their form to look like human beings... Beware... The author, a true  fantasci devotee has tediously documented what happened when Doppelgangers decided to relocate to America, take advantage of available technology and move to take over the world. Thankfully, there are als

Actions Speak Louder than Words... Are Electronics Really Improving? Just My Personal Experiences...

 years Dell Desktop 2005TheT (I am trying to type 4 lines below and twice it came here! --maybe too fast for today's computer? (here is where I've been trying to type to show that this phrase was jumped and should have following 70 wpm...) I was reasonably happy with my desktop that I'd had for 7 Only problem was that it was slow, but still had the full powerthat I had come to expect from a desktop. I have been typing all of my professional life and moved from typewriters through mainframe use and on into personal computers--that makes my experience over 40 years ! I type an average of 70 wpm ((this word, years) was the one that moved  up aThere  s the first line--I tried to place this right after years on the previous line and twice it jumped here, plus once into the middle of word through on the previous line! There is no way to know where your word goes, so the typist has to stop and searched...Note that the There of this sentence was thrown into the 3rd