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I HATE TO ASK BUT TO INDICATE IF YOU APPRECIATE MY WRITINGS, COULD YOU CONSIDER GIVING ME KUDOS?

 

THIS WAY I WILL HAVE SOME IDEA OF HOW TO CONTINUE IN FUTURE AS I AM HAVING TO PRIORITISE MY CURRENT PROJECTS FOR I AM STARTING A NOVEL.

 

TO THOSE WHO GIVE KUDOS, THANK YOU.

Edited September 10, 2010 by Maharg67

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GRAHAM MAHARG

IN TIME-SPACE ALTERNATE REALITIES

BACK HOME #4

IN A CRUMBLING CITY ON A DYING WORLD

 

After giving Puppy and some other animals a nice meal for once, real cans of meat and such like, Graham helped to make up a meal for a few people coming in from their apartments who brought with them food and other items that had seemingly had been created from rubbish. Graham Maharg knew now that he was somehow in two places at once in time and space but also that it was not that simple. Truth was he did not wish to think about it too much. Like the others he was pleased that suddenly the Australian Federal Government was not going to abandon Perth after all. Suddenly big stocks of rotten food and other rubbish had become valuable resources. The oceans and other areas teamed with life. Abandoned fishing vessels were being put back to work though it was hard to find folks who knew how to use them until some rejuvenated old timers came forth to do the work.

 

The dead bodies were gone from the city ways. The crumbling, fading buildings looked new again. The air smelt fresh. Toxic dumps had vanished. Men's manhood tended to be enlarged. People were emptying the public bins that were now full of good new things. Fights broke out between gangs of scavengers. The big rubbish dumps were soon swarming with people digging up the land fill and nobody listened to those who cried that legally they owned everything.

 

Graham only walked around the apartment block and was soon back to the apartment. He sat with Katrina and watched some TV. which was suddenly running a whole lot more channels and shows though most of the shows were repeats. Soon Katrina was lying on the couch with her head on his lap. Puppy came up and Katrina cuddled him to herself, getting licked in return until Puppy dozed off to sleep.

 

-CONTINUED-

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GRAHAM MAHARG

IN TIME-SPACE ALTERNATE REALITIES

BACK HOME #5

IN A CRUMBLING CITY ON A DYING WORLD

 

Graham was walking the edge of the apartment block's territory, patrolling it in a casual sense with his guns, when the sounds of shooting came to him. Daring to go through a tall, thick, metal gate he looked down a side street to see a very strange sight. Three creatures were coming along the street, big and glistening green things of some kind of rubbery plant like growth. A couple of local vigi thugs were shooting at them with surplus military autorifles smuggled into the country years ago but the bullets were having little effect.

 

Knowing, amazingly enough, that they were plantnoids from a Doctor Who TV show, Graham Maharg ran to a garden shed and grabbed up some weed killer. Sam the Gardener at first did not want him to do this but then the middle aged man was helping him, was bringing along the jury rigged spraycan. By the time they raced along towards the plantoids, one thug had been eaten and the other was screaming as green, gripping tentacles drew him to his terrible doom.

 

Graham sprayed the plantnoids even as the creatures went to attack him, ignoring his initial efforts to make peace, and then the creatures were dying, were visibly withering away to leave half devoured human corpses on the street. Bill looked as if he wanted to throw up and then he did throw up. Graham sighed and then, having seen easyily a hundred rotted corpses, used his mobile phone service to call the police. The moible telephone services were walking fine for the first time in ages.

 

But what had brought forth the Doctor Who monsters?"

 

His mobile phone rang and it was Buffy the Slayer's voice who spoke. "You brought them, as you brought me. Soon I will be moving into your apartment block, in an apartment right next to you, you dirty minded young man."

 

Then she cut the call.

 

He was annoyed. He was only a typical young man when it came to such things. Then he realised that meant she was right about what she had said.

 

-CONTINUED-

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GRAHAM MAHARG

IN TIME-SPACE ALTERNATE REALITIES

BACK HOME #5

IN A CRUMBLING CITY ON A DYING WORLD

 

Graham Maharg did some various typical things with Katrina that were pleasurable. You know, play chess, make love, pillow fights, morris dancing and other things. With Puppy he went to another apartment and met with Professor Amazer, a man with large ideas and big, thick glasses who spent his days pontificating on grand ideas of the universe. That was when he was not watching soap operas, pornographicy or old black and white movies on his big screen 3DTV.

 

Professor Amazer was ancient with wisdom, being twenty-one years old, and he perched on top of his coffee table as he muttered and then spoke proverbs of wise insight such as, "The universe is universal with universality' or 'The wisdom of mankind can be very wise unless it is not so' or even, "Can you lend me ten dollars until me next pension payment comes through?". Graham nodded as he drank his own cup of coffee he had brought with him. He did not trust to the professor's concept of hygiene. Nobody with any sense did. Nor would he give any money to the professor for it just vanished into a great proverbial black hole and was never seen again.

 

Puppy lay curled up on Graham's lap, contented and comfortable, as Graham slowly stroked his head and back.

 

The professor nodded and flicked a bug out of his coffee that had been floating there, before taking a big gulp of the black substance. The professor would put in at least five teaspoons of coffee powder and five of sugar into one cup. Then the professor scratched between the wild growth of hair on his chin, farted and spoke with a voice heavy with wisdom. "Wow, amazing things have been happening. Amazingly amazing things. Really amazingly amazing things. What about that Buffy chick that has just moved into the apartments. Big uns. Yeh, big uns."

 

Graham smiled. "Yes, we are old friends."

 

Professor Amazer nodded with great understanding of the subtle nature of human relationships. "Does she let you take a look at her big uns?"

 

Graham Maharg sighed with patience and steered Professor Amazer away to other subjects by giving him five dollars and threatening to hit him with a cricket bat. It was what he normally did and the professor found it quite acceptable.

 

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I am putting the ADVENTURES OF HELENE on hold for now.

I hope nobody minds but if you do, please tell me so.

 

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FALLOUT BLUES

DANZ007 (DANZIE)

AT MEGATON

 

Danzie and Justine quietly interviewed various people around the settlement. Old Mrs Rose who ran a shelter for orphans. Colin Moriarty who kept trying to get money off them and trying to convince Justine to work at his saloon as a dancing girl, the tough former ganger named Jericho, Doctor Church who was gruff but who cared for people, David Nissan who was a community teacher plus scholar of sorts, Lucy West who was on the surface just a quiet young woman but was so much more, the Stahls who owned and ran the BRASS LANTERN, the old lady Manya who knew a good deal about the history of Megaton and a few others. The results were interesting but when it came to useful data, less satisfactory than they had hoped for.

 

They did find strong hints that Unity had spies in the settlement but this was far from surprising. There were also hidden agents for the infamous DC Syndicates based in Paradise Falls and various other powers. Bounty hunters were searching for an advanced android that had escaped from the infamous Commonwealth and the 'Institute' that basically controlled it. Regulators moved hidden amongst the population, ones who did not wear the dusters, searching for a group of terrible criminals they called the Forsaken for they were criminal vampires. Mostly Megaton was quiet and even with all of the other stuff going on, it was its normal self.

 

Justine and Danzie became lovers at this time and began to make special arrangements with the small Megaton Town Council to get a house. They got the half underground house, supposedly haunted by a nasty spirit, in exchange for a series of tasks yet to be carried out. The pair moved in and so did the biovire children for the house was quite large with a series of hidden underground chambers that the group soon discovered. Hidden in them were the loot of one cunning and brutal criminal named DA Angelvus. The dark spirits turned out to be some tech trickery he had left behind to scare people from robbing him but he had never come back from his last trip.

 

Jasmine's friends also moved in, some reluctantly, but things were warming between all of them and Justine.

 

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FALLOUT BLUES

DANZ003 (DANZER)

IN THE WASTELANDS

 

Danz003, clone brother to Danz007, awoke to himself and broke the programming conditioning chains that bound his mind and yet he did not betray the truth to either Professor Ashworth or any of the others in the group. Instead, quietly angry at what the rather aloof professor had done to him, he went on acting out the various roles he had been given. Professor Ashworth was convinced that the Danz Clone Brothers and Sisters had been implanted deeply with some vital knowledge that the professor needed. Though brilliant, James could also be obstinate to the point of illogic and in this case he was so. Danz003 had already tried to convince the professor that he had no such deeply buried data but had soon given up.

 

Danzer was awake the night that he became free and made subtle but strong mind-linkage with his clone-brother Danz007. He was on sentry duty along with the ghoul who was so oddly named. The ghoul was not a talkative sort and did not seem comfortable to be with a clone, with a tube-born, as he called Danzer. Though the professor was reluctant to admit it, they had become lost in the Wastelands as they made their way towards some place that the professor would not fully identify, much to the growing frustration and annoyance of others in the group.

 

The others slept in foldouts, like open sided sleeping bags that were easier to get out of in a hurry, and were inside a shelter of sorts made out of gathered and carefully placed bits of trash. Jasmine slept fairly closer to her father, the professor. The pale man slept to one side. Then there was an assistant professor and a techie. There was a sleepy hound dog, a pack-donkey and a brahmin with bigger packs. Somehow the professor had arranged for this expedition many years ago but the clone knew very little of such things.

 

Danzer looked out over the dark nightscape of the Wastelands, at the distant red blue flickering of toxic flames, and heard the explosion of an atomic motorised vehicles as its atomic stabilizers finally failed after so many decades of no maintenance. With his M161A3 autorifle with built-in grenade-shell launcher and small EMPgun, he wore an odd combination of a vault jumpsuit, kevlar body-armour and hiking boots with a webbelt dotted with many pouches. Holstered to his side was a pulselaser pistol.

 

The territorial screaming cry of a deathclaw echoed through the cold air.

 

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FALLOUT BLUES

DANZ007 (DANZIE)

IN MEGATON

 

Any planned expeditions were put on hold as other events occurred and Danzie found himself assisting Walter, the Head Caretaker, to improve the water pumping station and other facilities in Megaton, both Inner and Outer. Then Justine assisted the Megaton Guard, a militia really with limited equipment, with some much needed training. DJgirl, friend of the original Jasmine, began a PA based radio station in the town which was broadcast over public speakers for a couple of hours each day, playing music along with bulletins and advertisements.

 

The Brotherhood of Steel was increasing its acitivities in the area, including search and destroy patrols against bandits, gangers and the newer threat of raiders. The Brotherhood was reluctantly hiring mercenaries as the 'Mercenaries of Steel' who were given old suits of power armour to use. It was an open secret that the Brotherhood was both seeking to protect common Wastelanders but also seeking old technologies and other treasures from the old times.

 

Danzie fixed up some problematic leakages of major town water pipes. This gained him some EIDs (emergency issue dollars), Walter's gratitude and increased kudos in Megaton with the locals.

 

Eyebots began to appear in the region, drifting across the Wastelands and broadcasting loudly the propaganda of the Enclave. People at first shot them but soon many were knocking them down with EMPguns or other means and recycling their parts. Yet the eyebots not only kept coming, there was more of them, they came in clusters and began using laserguns to defend themselves with if they were attacked. It was not hard to guess that the eyebots were spying out the DC for the Enclave though it was doubted that this was the only way it was being done.

 

Danzie and Justine began a project to fix up the public bathhouses including the provision of hot water. They also were making plans to improve Megaton's defences by strengthening the walls, adding firepower to the battlements and improving weak points. Matters seemed to be going quite well.

 

-CONTINUED-

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