Core Beliefs – Chapter 70 – Starship 1 As quickly as it had come, Christmas 2014 was over. Life for all involved with Dlrow Wen returned to the passionate pursuit of changing the world. Following New Year’s 2015, Emily Coblentz and Jacob Martin found themselves frequently in the silo. Both had visited before, but now they were active participants in assembling and creating some of the most sophisticated systems ever conceived. Both found the tasks demanding and exhaustin

Core Beliefs – Chapter 69 - Earth or Other “Matt, I’ve got some ideas for the silo.” Chris had come to Matt with a plan for the silo. It involved building an underground dock for the new GEM-C series and her soon-to-be-christened sister ships. Chris also wanted to create a series of safe places to do research. “Matt,” Chris sighed, “I miss the hands-on aspects, as have several of the people working at your corporations in St. Louis.” It took little to convince Matt. He al

I started this writing journey decades ago, with one character, one scene, and one moment in time. Over the years it has morphed into dozens of stories, and a multitude of characters and now...I feel fractured. It's not just the mass of words written over eons in multiple universes and worlds; it's the fractured methodology, the assorted tools and methods, and the numerous computers that have served as the repository of the accumulated works. More than once, I've lost it all,