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Chapter 49 - Teaser!

Hello, my friends! Chapter 49's teaser is here! :-) Unfortunately, I had an elderly relative suffer a bad fall, go into hospice, and then pass soon after this month, so my normal timeline is a bit ...

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Chapter 48 - The Village People

“200 yards out, to the right of that corporate art in the square,” I directed her quietly. “The walkers who look like they were part of a Village People cover band or something. I really wond...

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Chapter 48 - YMCA, by the Village People

Of course, I've heard the songs my whole life, but have you ever seen the music videos for these popular songs?  I know I haven't.  Enjoy!

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I continued to take out the re...

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Chapter 48 - In the Navy, by the Village People

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Chapter 48 - Macho Man, by the Village People

They really leaned into the beefcake imagery.

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Chapter 48 - The demographics of Atlanta circa 2010

At this point in the timeline the Atlanta metropolitan area alone had a 2010 population of approximately 5.26 million. The population of Earth was around 7 billion. Without my ship’s sensors to s...

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Chapter 48 - Effective range of the 5.56mm NATO round

There was something simple and beautiful about all this. A man and his rifle. Sure, I was using a scope, an advanced optic system by most measures, but this wasn’t Star Trek level technology. I w...

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Chapter 48 - Fact Checking the CDC's emergency plan as seen on the show

During the writing process, I confirmed the CDC really does have a lot of dangerous biological samples on hand, but if containment failed would they really blow the place up?

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Was...

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Chapter 48 - Breath Control and Why It's Important in Shooting

Patreon refused to go to the link I consulted; it's below:

https://www.nrafamily.org/c...

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Chapter 48 - Is match grade ammunition worth it?

Opinions may vary widely on this one.  For the purposes of my story, especially with longer-range shooting where Gothic is going for head shots versus torso shots, it's definitely worth it. View Post

Chapter 48 - What is match grade ammunition?

Like anything else, you get what you pay for.

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As the clouds in the night sky slowly moved to allow the moon to bathe the dark area in soft moonlight, I squeezed the trigger. A l...

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Chapter 48 - How to accurately aim rifle

I consulted a lot of shooting manuals during the writing of this scene, but I also wanted to link to an article that would be easy to follow when I realized that many of my readers might be from co...

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Chapter 48 - What is anaphasic energy?

I actually made a brief mention of anaphasic energy another time in this fic.

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“I have been here for quite some time, B’Elanna,” T’Maz unrepentantly replied, showing no emp...

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AAG - Chapter 48!

Chapter 48 is here my friends! :-)  Our time in the Walking Dead universe is rapidly coming to a close. We have a couple things to finish but then we're moving on.  Enjoy the chapter! &nb...

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Chapter 48 - Teaser!

I still have several scenes left to write and no clue where to reasonably cut the chapter off yet, so chapter 48 will probably drop Sunday or Monday night.  In the meantime, enjoy this little ...

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Chapter 47 - More suppressor shooting


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Chapter 47 - What is the Surefire Suppressor?

The only thing I cared about was that all of his equipment looked in good condition and he had stuff I wanted, including something that I had hardly expected to find, a Surefire suppressor that I...

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Chapter 47 - A suppressed M4

I watched a few videos to get a sense for what this thing could offer.

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Chapter 47 - What is the IOTV and why was Gothic excited to find one?

With little care for the corpse of this man, I quickly stripped him out of his tactical vest, the standard IOTV, and from the weight of it I could tell that the vest had the ceramic ballistic plate...

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Chapter 47 - What is the M4 Carbine?

As we walked around this horror show, not only was I looking for threats, but I was also looking for useful supplies and I hit the jack pot at a .50 caliber machine gun emplacement. Thankfully, the...

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