THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Five, Chapter VIII

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Five, Chapter VIII

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I drove to Kris Anderson’s winery and looked around. The place seemed dead with no cars around or even a pick-up. There were plenty of collections of heavy earth-moving equipment surrounding the huge warehouse where I presumed most of the winery was run, wine was...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Five, Chapter V

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Five, Chapter V

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Kris Anderson kept moving, looking around my office, which unaccountably had a wood fireplace set in one corner. “Nice idea,” he said, pointing at it, “wish I’d thought that far when I was building the winery.” I thanked him but didn’t inform him about Allen Weh...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Five, Chapter II

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Five, Chapter II

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Pat came in through the closed door as I got off the phone. Her barging in part of the continuing exhibition of disrespect she’d been exhibiting from the beginning. No bonus apparently meant anything to her. “You want to knock in the future?” I asked her, pointedly....
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Five, Chapter I

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Five, Chapter I

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Los Alamos, New Mexico is about a three-hour drive down to Albuquerque. My wife and I, after a delivery meeting at the labs, had taken the potassium Iodide tablets Dr. Hans Bethe had instructed us to consume and were prepared to take the rest of the pills in the...