Mary Louise Eklund

Tag: Fictional Friday

  • Fictional Friday – Two Men In A Bar

    Photo by me interior of Matt's Mainstreet Pub here in Kenosha. It has a US Navy theme which is why we like it. Oh and great food!
    Photo by me interior of Matt’s Mainstreet Pub here in Kenosha. It has a US Navy theme which is why we like it. Oh and great food!

     

    This one doesn’t require much set up.  It’s something I’ve been working upon for a few months.  Here’s what you need to know:

    Luke is a private eye.  Susan Howard is the young wife of a dangerous billionaire.  Dean was a former want-to-be boyfriend that is now stalking about.  He is wanting to be a producer but not getting far given the very problems Luke points out here.  Nikki is Susan’s friend and personal secretary.    That’s the cast.  The situation is Mr. Howard has hired Luke to determine if Dean is any danger to Susan and second find a way to make Dean go away.  Here Luke finally shows his had to Dean at a bar. (Oh NSFW due to frank cursing.  Many F-bombs are launched here in this confrontation.)

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  • Fictional Friday – Glomar Ghosts

    This bit of fiction has a historical basis. Let me tell you the facts that led to inspiration, leaving out any theories of conspiracy or cover up. First, the Soviets lost a nuke sub known as K-129 in March 1968. The US wanted to find it of course and study it. With the help of Howard Hughes the CIA got a special ship built named USNS Hughes Glomar Explorer. It was publicly a deep sea exploration vessel but underneath it was a sub retrieval vessel for Project Azorian which was the CIA effort to retrieve the K-129. They did retrieve the sub and bodies to which they gave a proper funeral, the video above. Once whatever was retrieved (sources vary as to what they got) the boat was mothballed for many decades.

    With this being fact I thought what if in the retrieval the ghosts of Soviet sailors started taking over the ship? What if one person who was sensitive saw them first but eventually all see them. They try the funeral but it doesn’t do it. The men’s souls have spent enough time in the sea and want the ship. The ship goes home gives up the retrieved intelligence and then the boat is mothballed to give it over to the ghosts. THAT is the story I told and here’s a part of it.

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  • Friday Fiction – Lab Attack

    Laboratory by Rafael Vianna Croffi. It is shared under the Attribution 2.0 Generic Creative Commons License he granted with the photo. Thanks Rafael!
    Laboratory by Rafael Vianna Croffi. It is shared under the Attribution 2.0 Generic Creative Commons License he granted with the photo. Thanks Rafael!

    This is another Solar Ice excerpt. Her our female lead character, Natalie, the discoverer of the new product learns that it was her research partner, Jack, that had sabotaged the work after the discovery. Just as in the previous snippet we have a mystery group wanting the material. They are the ones who used Jack. Now Natalie is wise to the odd things happening through Chance, we met him before, who was put near her to protect her. But this night he’s gone… the intruders are there… So want to know more read on. Want more after that let me know! Who knows I might actually get inspired to clean it up. (more…)

  • Friday Fiction – Calling the Towers

    grandcanyon130 by Matthew Lee High on Flickr under the Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic Creative Commons License he so graciously granted. Click on the photo to see his photostream on Flickr. Thanks Matthew!
    grandcanyon130 by Matthew Lee High on Flickr under the Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic Creative Commons License he so graciously granted. Click on the photo to see his photostream on Flickr. Thanks Matthew!

    Welcome to Friday Fiction.  Yes I decided to change the name but not the tag.  This scene comes from that rural fiction work I introduced in my post on November 13th.  For those of you who are new – it’s an urban fiction work I set in a rural area.  The character Thea here in this scene is a witch, and has the position of Crone of the Appalachians.  Through some very unusual circumstances we won’t go into here she’s very young to hold that position.  However, she has been asked by a friend of the former crone to help with the investigation of a series of crimes.  Here she does some fancy spell casting to help her with that effort.  I hope you enjoy it!  The voices of other women in her head are the former crones’s spirits who have agreed to help her with this task and advise her.  Let me know what you think. (more…)