What if time was a circle? And what if it sometimes twisted like a pretzel? And what if the government had control of such a device...?
Vito the gangster cat was the boss of the gangland mob in Brooklyn. He was known as Vito Catalone. The cat father. His crew is the underboss Rocco Catalone Vitos son. Sneaky Petey the street boss, consigliere Whitey Wiskers and Razor claw and Knuckles were brothers known as soldiers in the crew; The cat father who fronted his operations by starting a tuna fishing and canning business. This was a front for his criminal activities. They became the most powerful colony in Brooklyn. Their criminal activities consist of cat nip trafficking, cat assassination, cat calling, cat fights, cat nappers and catteries. They were living the life of crime but were well taken care of. Their rivals were the Catapone colony of Long Island. Al Catapone the most feared and ruthless gangster cat. He was known as the fat cat of Long Island. His main objective was to take power away from Vito Catalone. The street boss Sneaky Petey heard about Al Catapones plans from stray cats that formed a clowder near a dumpster in the alley. That night Sneaky Petey told Vito Catapone. Vito was not a happy cat. Al Catapone sleeps with the fishes Vito yelled. Sneaky Petey was ordered to go to the tuna canning factory, grab a fish wrap it up in newspaper. In the morning Al Catapone had a delivery You guessed it a fish wrapped in newspaper was sent to him. A message from Vito. He knew fat cat Al Catapone could not resist a fish. He looked down at the fish. This could mean a catastrophe, or it can be my dinner. I chose dinner. He ate the whole fish. Al became catatonic that night. Catalepsy set in. The fish was poisoned. Now that Al Catapone is out of the picture Vito will take over Long Island and take over his crew. Razor claw and Knuckles were ordered to round up Als crew and bring them to Brooklyn. A meeting was held that day. Vito made an offer they could not resist. His crew had grown. Everyone pressed paws and licked Vito Catalones extended paw. They all sat down and sipped a Catpuccino and ate biscatti to seal the deal. You need the right catitude to be purr-fect.I had to claw my way to the top, and I'm staying here till the end. Well, the end came to Vito that night. One of the new crew members Bruiser shot his catling gun at Vitos home shattering windows and damaging the home, bullet holes everywhere. No one made it out alive. Whitey Whiskers was in Catalina, Arizona on business at the time of the shooting. When he found out about the shootings. He yelled; I will avenge my brothers till I take my last breath. He did just that. He was told by an informer that Bruiser would be dining at the Cats on the Bay in Brooklyn N.Y. Whitey Whiskers pulls up to the restaurant in his Jaguar, looks through the window and sees Bruiser eating his last meal. Whitey throws the grenade through the opened door and Bruiser is now history. What goes around comes around. I have avenged my family. I will now move on. I will live my life on a catboat eating catfish, taking catnaps and enjoying the rest of my cat lives. Which he did just that. Living the life of Riley.
The world has changed. Contained in The Globe, humans live in artificial life. Only sign of true life is the humans themselves. Humans and AI are at war. ChatGPT has risen to power. By the end of it all, will there be peace? Or power?
"The name's Zeta! It's been raining for fifteen years and everyone's given up the idea of climbing the obelisk to shut off the machine. Everyone that is but me and my lifelong love Kiwi! We're gonna scale that rock or become legends trying. I don't care what I have to face, we'll face it together."
Read More...
Paid StoryRise of the Magi
Book 2 of the Priests and Magi quadrilogy.
Shadows stir, and old enemies resurface.
Read More...
The rain hasn't stopped since the machines took control. It came with a powerful storm that threatened to wash the very essence of the city, a city I have grown to hate. How and why this rain started I have no idea, no one did, and yet the worst had happened... It was even worse than the dreaded rain itself.
In 1994, the World Population Summit in Cairo, Egypt had 160 nations participate. Where they all agreed that the human population was out of control and must be stopped because the world is running out of resources. An agreement was formed that would mandate the reduction of humans from 6 billion to 800 million by the year 2030. Enter Ayvah, the 12-year-old chosen prospect whom God deems the next savior. When her father JD failed to get the citizens of the United States to listen, his pure of heart daughter is tasked with saving humanity from itself. Can she?
In the aftermath of the Salem witch trials, a group of accused witches, fearing for their lives, managed to escape the clutches of the witch hunters.
These individuals, driven by desperation and a desire for survival, scattered across the American colonies, determined to lay low and avoid detection. Over time, they formed a secret network of covens, each comprising a small group of survivors who shared their experiences and knowledge.
Read More...
A desperate young man on a train is given two life changing choices.