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Post by avordvet on Mar 23, 2015 14:01:34 GMT -5
Got some new people around here, so here's an old classic for your reading (and learning) pleasure... Absolved: Chapter One, The Battle of Sipsey Street Thursday, October 22, 2009 He looked around the battlefield that had been his home, and carefully raised himself out of the recliner. It wouldn't do to fall and break a hip now. Company was coming, and he had to be ready to greet them. He hoped it would be today. He had been scared of the attacking Nathaniel Victors, the whistles and the bugles, the explosions and the screams. With his whole life ahead of him then, he wanted to live. But now, at the end of his life, he wasn't afraid of the thugs who had targeted him. He was only afraid that they wouldn't come. sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2009/10/absolved-chapter-one-battle-of-sipsey.html
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Post by avordvet on Jul 31, 2015 16:36:12 GMT -5
Another favorite... Absolved: Chapter 31, Black and Tans Now Joe didn't have a C-130, or a bomb casing the size of a pickup truck, or military grade RDX explosive as a burster to distribute the fuel. What Joe had was a big-ass crop duster and, thanks to another buddy now retired from NHRA racing, 800 gallons of a fifty-fifty mix of nitro-methane and propylene oxide fuel in the poly-coated spray tank. The mix was determined mostly by what “Crash” Carlyle had on hand. It would have to do. In military terms, he had a huge flying molotov cocktail. Whether it detonated or merely rained fire down on those mercenary assholes would be a tricky question at best, dependent upon weather, if he had guessed right about the micron size of the nozzles dispensing the fuel, whether the computer models he had used were right, and if (and he was afraid it was a big "if") his improvised ignition system would work. sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2009/10/absolved-chapter-31-black-and-tans.html
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