THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Two Chapter XXIX

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Two Chapter XXIX

My wife’s comment reverberated through me to the core. The last thing I wanted or needed was for her to be exposed in any way to what was developing regarding my work with the people at the compound or what had become the Seven, now Eight Dwarfs. Richard’s unexpected...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Two, Chapter XXVII

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Two, Chapter XXVII

The ride back into the harbor entrance at Dana Point went smoothly, the wind and waves were at our back and there was no traffic of boats or lines of fisherman along the sea walls to impede our progress. The sound of the dual MTU diesels, thrumming away underneath me,...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Two, Chapter XXVI

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Two, Chapter XXVI

The open sea beckoned us toward it, as I stared at the ever greater rise and fall of the bow. It seemed to be whispering “come my pretties,” as if somehow tied right into the wicked witch’s delivery from the Wizard of Oz. Gularte made it up from the main cabin, just...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Two, Chapter XXV

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Two, Chapter XXV

The lifeguard boat ran with the wind after making the turn to round the end of the San Clemente Pier, the only thing standing between the fast moving craft and the harbor opening into Dana Point’s yacht basin. The helicopters, Coast Guard boats and the yacht itself,...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Two, Chapter XXIV

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Two, Chapter XXIV

Gularte and I struggled in attempting to do anything but hang on to the sturdy, but very slippery chrome railing. There was nothing else to hold onto as the boat was being continuously beaten all along the port side of its hull by the pounding surf. “Down,” I yelled...