The Duke, Part Five

The Duke, Part Five

THE DUKE Part V There was only one person sitting in the room when Darren and Jimmy entered from the hall. Jimmy brushed against a lamp and had to settle it back on its table with both hands shaking in nervous anticipation about what he had glimpsed. A man sat at the...
The Duke, Part Four

The Duke, Part Four

The Duke Part IV  Darren was as little prepared for the awesomely frightening nuclear display as Jimmy had been. Star Black had actually taken it best, although her comment when they got down from the mountain neither understood “I don’t understand what’s such a big...
The Duke, Part Three

The Duke, Part Three

THE DUKE Part III  Darren and Jimmy never climbed Diamond Head during the week, as there was simply too much else to do, what with school, homework and real work, but weekends were special. A small Army facility was located deep down in the bowl of Diamond Head crater...
The Duke, Part Two

The Duke, Part Two

THE DUKE Part II  Shimmying is what Jimmie called it.  Darren slowly worked his way across the cinder block wide expanse of stone they called the anvil.  Diamond Head. The mountain.  A small stretch of it required passing across a twenty-foot section of stone that...
The Duke, Part One

The Duke, Part One

THE DUKE A Novella by James Strauss  Darren worked every Saturday morning at the Cannon Club to clean the place for evening dinner.  The Officer’s Club was not large so he was the only busboy, just as he’d been the only slop boy the year before.  The promotion had not...