Kratman Snippets
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 09
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath - Snippet 09 "Wait! Wait!" one of the Santa Josefinan teamsters cried. Sadly, Marciano didn't hear him. His finger squeezed the trigger until he was rewarded with a loud boom. The horse stood stock still for a moment, then its knees buckled, letting it sink to the macadamized road. The driver, on the point of hysterics, ran over and threw himself over the equine corpse, wailing with grief. Marciano, turned to the remaining two drivers, "Are you willing now to lease us your horses...
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 08
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath - Snippet 08 Which, thought Fosa, may become kind of important given that most of the Tauran helicopters were faster than the older modified crop dusters. Wish we'd been able to get more of the Gabriels, but at what they cost…no, not until we can build our own. The two mixed anti-submarine warfare squadrons that had already sailed out to ping furiously for the presence of enemy submarines reported in that there was nothing out there, which pretty much agreed with Fosa's existing suspicions. The question of...
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 07
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath - Snippet 07 Chapter Three There are five normal methods of launching a Condor, including rolling them out the loading ramp of an airship. The other four are to a) carry or toss them over the edge of a cliff, b) via the balloon launch system, c) self-launching with the on-board propeller or jet, model depending, and d) via a ground winch. There are advantages and disadvantages to each method. --Legionary Field Manual 16-243 (Top Secret), Glider Operations SdL #1, SSK Megalodon There was a strip in...
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 06
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath - Snippet 06 ***** On their half an hour's walk to safety at Khalid's rented safe house, they saw horror aplenty, from gang rapes, to lynchings to apartment building's being burned with their inhabitant still inside. Twice Khalid had to show his trilingual pass from the Imam and twice he and the woman were allowed to pass. Three times she'd had to squeeze his arm to prevent him from intervening. "What does that thing say?" Alix had asked, after the second such...
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 05
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath - Snippet 05 But with those two, you never really know. These things could have come from Sumer, or from any of two dozen other places that make Volgan-designed arms. Be funny if they came from the Zhong, though, all things considered. And that's not impossible; the Zhong will sell anything to anyone. The rising had come early and, apparently, spontaneously with the news that the Tauran Union expeditionary force to Balboa had been defeated and destroyed, while the smaller one in Santa Josefina,...
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 04
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath - Snippet 04 Chapter Two "But when Islam emerged it put slavery into order, by limiting it to legitimate wars between Muslims and their enemies…the female prisoners of wars are 'those whom you own'…in order to humiliate them they become the property of the army commander, or of a Muslim…and he can have sex with them…" --Suad Saleh, Theology Professor (female) Al-Azhar University, Cairo, 12 September, 2014 Oppenheim, Sachsen Stomach pained and churning, as it often was these days, Khalid stood by the main window...
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 03
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath - Snippet 03 "Don't be too hard on him," Carrera said. "The Tauran Union Expeditionary Force was under a bombardment that may as well have been nuclear." "I never thought especially well of the major, anyway," said the RSM. "But we…all of us" – there was a worse shudder, this time, and maybe an impossible glisten in the eye – "we mostly collapsed. For a while, anyway, we did." "Then don't be too hard on yourselves, either. I'm telling you, that bombardment was as fierce as anyone has ever...
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 02
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath - Snippet 02 Carrera finished the white flag, then stood silently for a long minute. Finally, he wiped one hand across his face, sighed and said, "This is defensible, too, Jamey. Maybe more importantly, it's for the good of my soul." Soult shook his head, resignedly, the scowl disappearing. "Still stupid," he insisted, chin down and mind expecting the worst. Velasquez and Cruz, standing not far away, simply shook their heads, faces kept carefully blank. Carrera pretended not to...