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THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Three, Chapter XXVIII

The single word “unseeable” ate at my foundations. Instinctively, I knew that word had nothing to do with nuclear power or any of what went on at the plant. The word didn’t refer, by definition, to something being unable to be seen because it was too secret to be...

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Three, Chapter XXVII

by James Strauss | 40 comments

I couldn’t sleep, but that was nothing new since the Nam. The doctors at the VA said that nobody could stay awake for days and nights on end but my time in the valley and then the nights and days after coming home had disproven that, not that my word about such things...

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Three, Chapter XXVI

by James Strauss | 56 comments

Earlier in the day the weather had been so very Southern California that I hadn’t noticed it, as I ran around arranging everything I would need for the mission. However, when I was ‘installing’ the Bronco, once again, in between the giant beach cleaning machines at...

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Three, Chapter XXIV

by James Strauss | 30 comments

I lay in bed, my body wanting to fall into a restful and restorative sleep, but my mind was having none of that. In closing my eyes, I wasn’t taken back into combat, which happened only rarely and never when I was so tired. No, it was Gularte’s words about a possible...

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Three, Chapter VIII

by James Strauss | 45 comments

My first meeting with Paul, my shrink of questionable credentials and experience, had gone amazingly well. My first act of redemption, which he never truly defined, made me feel better about myself in spite of the fact that I wasn’t sure why. I’d bought in immediately...