Bob Clay's Blog – January 2009 Archive (6)

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Like Father, Like Daughter

The great body of the King had stopped wheezing, replaced by that almost silent breathing that precedes the final act. The physicians had moved back from Henry's tormented flesh, there was little they could do for the suppurating boils, the gout ridden joints and the sad realization in his eyes that an ending was near. The King managed to turn his head to stare glassily out of the window at the cold grey January sky, his face expressionless, the once mighty aura of the towering monarch long… Continue

Added by Bob Clay on January 31, 2009 at 10:52pm — 4 Comments

Barking Mad

The trouble with divorce is it involves lawyers, bits of paper, and the cost doesn't bear thinking about, so I've decided the best way would be to kill her. Of course, that makes for one BIG problem, disposing of the body. I can't bury her under the patio, I've got three there already, there just isn't room. I thought of putting her in the greenhouse, maybe as fertiliser, but that's where I store all my plutonium, and you have to keep that stuff in small separate bundles or it starts to glow… Continue

Added by Bob Clay on January 29, 2009 at 7:26am — 5 Comments

Awakenings

Carson yanked me out of sleep by pulling down my jaw and jamming his gun deep into my throat. The serrated gun-sight tore at the roof of my mouth, the blood making me gag as I stared up at his hate filled eyes.... I awoke with a start, rigid with terror and bathed in sweat, I could almost taste the nightmare's gun on my tongue and found myself still gagging at the thought of it. Diane awoke and rolled over, asking me if I was ok, but I couldn't answer as I was still embedded in the nightmare… Continue

Added by Bob Clay on January 26, 2009 at 2:42pm — 5 Comments

The Loner

Second Officer Ryan carefully scanned the horizon from the port bridge-wing before briskly marching through the wheelhouse to the starboard bridge-wing to repeat the operation. Satisfied there were no ships visible, he moved back into the wheelhouse and checked the chart, a brief glimpse at the GPS bought a thin smile to his lips, he was exactly where he wanted to be. He crossed to the telegraph and rang down 'Stop Engines', happy in the thought that modern ships had full bridge control of the… Continue

Added by Bob Clay on January 15, 2009 at 2:31pm — 4 Comments

The God Equation

It was in the early hours of the morning before Professor Charles finally chalked up the equation. He had been struggling for hours with some distant ill-defined thought before being hit with a moment of bright-light clarity, like a new born star suddenly bursting into life in some dark, deep nebulous cloud. He stepped back from the blackboard in awe, it was all there, energy, matter dark and visible, space and time, the beginning and the end, everything, it was the equation of everything. This… Continue

Added by Bob Clay on January 8, 2009 at 6:31pm — 7 Comments

Women Love a Romantic

The first obstacle is a mountain range, a wall of jagged shards, thin air and bad weather, oh great, the easy ones first huh ? Then there's a flat jungle covered plain, filled with creatures that look like a cross between a velociraptor and a Mack truck and exist only to satisfy their ferocity and hunger. After that there's a seemingly endless sea that can boil up storms that shake the very foundations of hell itself, enough even to put a worried glint in the eye of Satan. Assuming I hop skip… Continue

Added by Bob Clay on January 3, 2009 at 4:33pm — 43 Comments

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