Dr. Robert Morgan (Vincent Price) is the only survivor of a devastating world-wide plague due to a mysterious immunity he acquired to the bacterium while working in Central America years ago. He is all alone now…or so it seems. As night falls, plague victims begin to leave their graves, part of a hellish undead army [...]
A global war begins in 1940. This war drags out over many decades until most of the people still alive (mostly those born after the war started) do not even know who started it or why. Nothing is being manufactured at all any more and society has broken down into primative localized communities. In 1966 [...]
8:44 A.M. A full scale military invasion by foreign troops begins. Total surprise. Almost total success. A gang of high school kids become the last line of defense.
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Those were the words of Shakespeare. Or at least that’s what we are told. They might just be the words of Frances Bacon. Nevertheless, they ring a truth that transcends the ages and drives home a startling point: you shouldn’t try to fool yourself.
I have come full circle. As I write [...]
Just checking my e-mail and noticed this little blurb at the end of my daily weather forecast:
“This data in Weather History… In 1919, an F5 tornado tore a path of destruction through Fergus Falls, Minnesota. 59 people were killed and 400 buildings were destroyed.
In 1947, twelve inches of rain fell in Holt, Missouri in just [...]
OK, maybe it’s not Independence Day for the rest of the country yet, but today is Independence Day for me! It was one year ago today that I decided that I had enough of the bullying boss that I used to work for and walked out of the company I was employed with.
It was [...]
As a writer of web content, I’m going to take a minute to vent here. After all, if I can’t do it here, where can I do it? OK, so there is your fair warning - this post isn’t necessarily about working from home or fatherhood … deal with it.
What has happened to [...]
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