September 03, 2005

Digging Through the Old Files

Since I'm miserable and pretty much can't convince myself to do anything productive, I was reading my old Word documents and found the old West Point Inferno bit Noble wrote a hojillion years ago (or in 2002). They were eventually supposed to make up a story of what he, Bobby, and I would be like in the future, but they were never finished. Never the less, looking back at them several years later I think they're still pretty funny and spot on. My character is Terra, his Kranz, and Bobby is Leighton. What is it that Kranz - I mean Noble - used to say? "People who live in the past tend to be unhappy with the present."

Leroy Kranz

Leroy Kranz was born to work on cars. He had grown up in them as a boy in upstate Indiana... more >>

Leighton

The agents did not look particularly friendly, but then it was not their job to be... more >>

Terra Firma

Terra was not at all at ease as she sat in the airliner... more >>

Low Slung Mazda

The low slung Mazda seethed across the desert like a silver bullet, raising the dust off the sun bleached road in short-lived clouds... more >>

Interim

The little blue Mercedes convertible streaked along the interstate at supra-legal speed... more >>

Krantz's House

She wandered around the house picking at things, futilely trying to clean it up in a way that made him wholly uncomfortable... more >>

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