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THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Six, Chapter XXX

I stood still outside the hotel lobby exit to the harbor, looking at the boats, gently bobbing in their slips, only one boat of real interest to me. We’d all worked into the night on getting everything loaded and ready, like I was loaded and ready. There was no...

THW COWARDLY LION, Volume Six, Chapter XXIX

by James Strauss | 20 comments

I wanted to have a part in loading the boat, simply because if I knew where things were being placed and an emergency came up, then there’d be no delay in getting to what was needed. Not that the entire mission wasn’t just a rolling emergency. But, even...

EGRESS, a Short Story

by James Strauss | 12 comments

EGRESS A Short Story By James Strauss The decision was the fastest and most fateful he had ever made, but living with the result was going to be problematic, even if the life he had left was to be very short in duration. Josh stood with his back pressed into the hard,...

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Six, Chapter XXVIII

by James Strauss | 19 comments

I called Tony, and before he could say a word, I read him the riot act about his inclusion of Marcinko on the mission in any way. “You done now?” was all he responded with. “I breathed in and out deeply. Marcinko and the others, including the...

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Six, Chapter XXV

by James Strauss | 6 comments

The planning for the mission had come to an end without what I considered to be the key element of it, which was, what in hell was the real mission because it sure wasn’t breaking up a band of drug smugglers, stealing their cash and destroying them and their stash. ...