Like binary code: one or zero. All or nothing. Pick your poison. Entertain yourself to death.
Consumer, consume thyself.
pure gold...
I hope that you will read it and pass it along.
Thanks, Watchman Matt!
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Ezekiel 3: 16 At the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me: 17 “Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the people of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me. 18 When I say to a wicked person, ‘You will surely die,’ and you do not warn them or speak out to dissuade them from their evil ways in order to save their life, that wicked person will die for their sin, and I will hold you accountable for their blood. 19 But if you do warn the wicked person and they do not turn from their wickedness or from their evil ways, they will die for their sin; but you will have saved yourself.
20 “Again, when a righteous person turns from their righteousness and does evil, and I put a stumbling block before them, they will die. Since you did not warn them, they will die for their sin. The righteous things that person did will not be remembered, and I will hold you accountable for their blood. 21 But if you do warn the righteous person not to sin and they do not sin, they will surely live because they took warning, and you will have saved yourself.”
Glad you posted it - you mentioned I think yesterday, and I searched online and couldn’t find it (not a good searcher person). I will email it around...
Bump for later
I really liked it. Shorter, and less brutal than “One Second After.”
bttt
Thanks for the ping. I enjoyed it immensely.
The story references the Nantahala Forest; didn’t Eric Rudolph spend several years holed-up there?
Enjoyed it very much. Thanks and good job!
Like binary code: one or zero. All or nothing. Pick your poison. Entertain yourself to death.
Consumer, consume thyself.
pure gold...
A McGee BTT for a thread that is not, actually, about potatoes.
Bkmrk
Awesome story!!! Well written and achieves its purpose.
I wonder what the military guys on here think: in this type of situation are we more or less likely to be invaded by a foreign power? Would some other country use this as an opportunity to come in and take over when we are completely shattered and in dissarray? Or would this likely be worldwide chaos, with all developed countries suffering the same fate?
Outstanding, FRiend, as always. Is the anthology in hard copy ?(’Cause kindle won’t work when the lights go out)
Thank you for one of those stories you finish in one sitting. But, it worries the heck out of me for my friends in larger cities. And, I am not that far from a smaller city as the crow flies.
I’ll pass this on. Sadly, the average person will think it’s a nice work of fiction but will never happen. I pray they’re right.
Nice job. What a nice break from formulaic action-movies with their inevitable exploding cars.
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Grim 'cause it's plausible... Plausible enough anyway.
'Specially nowadays...
If we have a ground rule of "No macho talk", what's a guy to do? That is, what's a guy to do after paying the mortgage, etc, and doing all the stuff he's got to do to keep up with the Murrays? (Name changed to preserve integrity of hypothetical question...)
Ping!
You need to read this
Matt:
You wrote another winner. Are you just selling “The Bracken Anthology” for Kindle or will it be released on paper? I will need something to read through power outage. Besides the book will look good next to the yellow book, red book, and blue book I have on my bookshelf.
John
Another question for techies (I used to be one many years ago but am sadly not up on the latest in telecommunication routing architectures) . Short of several worldwide EMP’s, is our communications network really that vulnerable to being taken down nationwide? (I mean without any EMPs. Just local attacks?) I thought there was a lot of redundancy, parrellism, and capability of rerouting network traffic among multiple nodes on the fly in the event of a hit in a certain location.
I can definitely see the economic devastation if our monetary system crashed, can totally imagine the EBT zombie rampages happening, but just wondering if it necessarily implies that our entire communication, Internet etc could be taken down so easily...
Maybe a bit more explanation of what scenario could cause the worldwide communications networks to go down would be helpful. Even just a few added sentences. I’d like to pass on to some family members who are engineers and they will probably ask about that.