Bob Elwell Archives - James Strauss

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Five, Chapter XIV

Wing proceeded out to the busy street from the alley we’d been huddled in and ran toward the closest taxi, brilliant red.I stared at the door of the taxi and was stunned as I backed into the building wall on the other side of which was the room of cages I’d slept or...

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Four, Chapter XVI

by James Strauss | 35 comments

When I got to the station and parked in the lot, I first noticed that Lieutenant Gate’s Marauder was parked in its special spot near the back door. The second thing I noticed, as I walked into the facility, was that Pat Bowman wasn’t at her desk. Gates was there when...

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Three, Chapter XXXVI

by James Strauss | 50 comments

It was Christmas Eve, although it wasn’t the eve of anything and I wondered, as usual, why the day, from early morning until the sun went down, was still referred to as the eve of Christmas when it was simply the day before. My thoughts turned to the single subject...

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Three, Chapter XXIII

by James Strauss | 31 comments

I made no attempt to rise to my feet, as I lay next to the lapping water on the slanted ramp. The reddish dirty bag rope dangled from my right hand. When I’d been out in the pier-end restaurant with Shawna, neither she nor any of the members of the Dwarfs, really had...

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Three, Chapter XXII

by James Strauss | 50 comments

I realized just how different Bob Elwell was, as I sat out at the end of the pier considering the coming dive. The simplicity of his plan, versus the overwhelming complexity of my own, amazed me. I’d given my plan only about a fifty percent chance of succeeding since...