Category Archives: Story

The final part and epilogue of ‘Pride, More Pride and Quite a Lot of Extreme Prejudice’  “Fuck it, you can’t do this,” Marcie said, flinging my pages across the table. “I, like, love you, your stuff, but… Jesus… Fuck!” She always had a negative first reaction to my wilder ideas. Usually, she came around, butContinue reading “The Epilogue (#12 of the Pride Series)”

Part Eleven of ‘Pride, More Pride and Quite a Lot of Extreme Prejudice’ (see previous part): Here’s the truth: as a war, the Middle East is not a winnable war. It’s a losable war. It’s a war in which it’s possible to make everybody lose and still there won’t be a winner. For Frussterer, theContinue reading “I Had That Dream Again (#11 of the Pride Series)”

Part Ten of ‘Pride, More Pride and Quite a Lot of Extreme Prejudice’ (see previous part): Where truth may not be admitted, there is a naked desert. Similarly, when it comes to the big political issues, there are things that exist but cannot be publicly admitted. To admit such issues is to accept the blame,Continue reading “The Cold Hard Truth (#10 of the Pride Series)”

Part Nine of ‘Pride, More Pride and Quite a Lot of Extreme Prejudice’ (see previous part): There is nothing new under the sun, so the philosophers say. And it is certainly not a novel idea that wars beget reasons rather more often than reasons beget wars. It is less than 200 years, since one Captain JenkinsContinue reading “Title Sponsors for a War (#9 of the Pride Series)”

Part Eight of ‘Pride, More Pride and Quite a Lot of Extreme Prejudice’ (see previous part): The Cojones Crisis – as the Red Tops immediately christen it – limps on past Hour Sixty-Seven.  President Frussterer would like to close airports and put army on standby, but he has been advised that this might put hisContinue reading “The Special Relationship (#8 of the Pride Series)”