The corporal standing next to the jeep saluted. “An early night, Colonel?”
I wave my hand. “Damn proprietor was watering down the whiskey and now he has the audacity to close.”
“Tis Sunday morning,” replied Pierre Benoit, a Newfoundlander who Uncle Sam had contracted to build the airfield at Stephenville. “He can’t serve drinks on a Sunday.”
“Is that true, corporal?”
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Conrad opened his eyes to a view of a massive blue globe. He jerked back and twisted around in the microgravity. He touched something solid in front of him. A window.
He pushed against the window and turned around. Conrad scanned the small room, no larger than a public bathroom stall, and empty except for an EV spacesuit and door. He studied the view through the window. Neptune, he thought. How did I get here?
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People often suggest holding an email meeting as an alternative to face-to-face meetings. This book identifies the rules of order that no longer apply, rules that we need to rewrite and new rules that are unique to email meetings. Available from Amazon.
A computer program has chosen 8 young people to replace the original Mars Colonists. The new colonists must get along and all agree to go, or the mission is off. The only person that might be able to keep the colonists together is their leader, the Flamen Martialis, but who is this person? Available from Amazon.
The year is 1428. A young Hok'ee lives with his mother on the edge of a First Nations village as outcasts. The Chief gives Hok'ee an opportunity to restore his family's name and to establish a household of his own. All Hok'ee needs to do is bring back the scalp of Sasquatch. However, what he discovers about Sasquatch changes his life. Available from Amazon.
Oliver Dingle-Mouse has found what he has been looking for in Mr. Rat's junkyard, a piano. There is only one problem; he does not have any money to buy it. Mr. Rat talks the little mouse into setting up a farming business to earn the money to buy the piano. To make a profit, Oliver enters into partnership with his friends Dianna and Timmy Goo-Cheese and learns what it takes to run a business. Available from Amazon. | Tony Dingwell on One-Liner Wednessdays —… |
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