James Howell

MESSAGE: ROGUE ACTIVE DUTY DOD ELEMENTS ARE ATTEMPTING UNAUTHORIZED RESCUE OF POW/MIA WITHIN SOUTHEAST ASIA AREA OF OPERATIONS. US Army personnel identified as: WO1 Michael J. Smith Staff Sergeant Thaddeus R. Jones Sergeant Jonathan T. Kincaid Sergeant Zachariah A. Morgan These personnel are to be arrested on sight without Warrant. Use of Deadly and Unnecessary Force is authorized. Any US entity that assists these personnel are to be treated in the same manner. If US POW/MIA personnel are recovered, instructions as per DOD Special Message 1X-OPJ-822939 is in effect. Those recovered personnel are to be surrendered to US Department of Defense for processing. All US Agencies/Entities CONUS/OCONUS are required to execute, and assist execution of, these orders as written without question, alteration or substitution. OCONUS status does not require Constitutional constraints.

14 short stories covering everything from comedy to mystery to horror to drama.

I am Supreme Lord Falgon of the Vandernan. I preside over the Vandernan Supreme Council. We, the assembled Higher Lords, are the guardians of this Galaxy. The Rule of Law is overseen by the Court of Allowances. It is the first and last Court of Law in the known Universe. There is no appeal and all verdicts are final. It is the fate of one of the oldest and most feared race of beings ever to exist in the known Universe that will now be decided. We the Vandernan are the policemen that the Court depends on for enforcement of the laws and the execution of their decrees. They are the MicLanden. 10,000 years ago these deadly beings were decimated during a genocidal war from a population of over Two Trillion beings down to just 1,183. Those survivors were imprisoned on a world where they could never disrupt other races or wage war in the Universe again. They were not any kind of threat to the universe; until today.

Twelve very powerful government and civilian people formed a "Committee" which manipulates the US Government and Society. They have created an enforcement arm of active duty military special operators who were tasked to go to Vietnam in early 1975 to locate and rescue American POWs. This is their story.

This is a collection of ideas I have had over the years as inspiration for novels. They range from science fiction, fantasy, drama, romance and just plain stories. They started out as a few sentences or ideas. I then tried to write novels and had over twenty four false starts. I had enough to make this collection of short stories and decided to publish them.

I took the first six chapters of Genesis as the inspiration for this novel. It is a dramatization of events to fill in over 900 years of events concerning Adam, Eve and the original sin which was glossed over in the Bible. This dramatization also makes an attempt to explain what could have happened to Eden after the fall of man. No attempt was made to change the Bible's history as it is written or to change any premise.

This is the match that lit the fuse that blew up the world. Treasonous individuals usurped our system in the USA and created a private Army that terrorized the nation by attacking Fort Bragg, NC and stole over seven billion dollars directly from the US Treasury. These actions weakened the US in the eyes of the world and started a spiral towards a second American Civil War. This the first book in a series that leads to that Civil War and the aftermath which spiraled outside our borders and touched the world.