Jay Michael Jones
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I am a writer and an avid fan of goats. The two are not mutually exclusive.
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Book 1 Flight of the Armada Chapter 9 Part 2
The Thuringi always enjoyed the radio and got a better grasp of English from it. They listened to the music curiously. Thuringi music was comparable to Earthian folk music, largely acoustic and told stories through its lyrics. The first time Carrol heard ‘Sh-Boom’, she could not figure out what it meant. “La-da-da-da-da-da, Da-da-da-da-da’ meant nothing to them, to say nothing of the mystery of what or who Sh-Boom was. The instrumentals were well liked; ‘A Summer Place’ reminded Glendon of a winding drive in his speeder back on Thuringa, and the smooth sound of the violins were as pleasing as the sholti players that entertained during Festival at Arne.
By Jay Michael Jones3 years ago in Fiction
Book 1 Flight of the Armada Chapter 9 Part 1
The ground was green with grass and flowers were coming out all around the edges of the house. Stuart went to Washington before dawn, to a meeting Michael arranged with a congressman. Glendon was at the Gentry’s store and Darien visited the Martins. Brent was searching the Pacific Ocean for uninhabited islands.
By Jay Michael Jones3 years ago in Fiction
Book 1 FLIGHT OF THE ARMADA Chapter 8 Part 2
They checked on the Martins every day by phone or in person. Speculation grew concerning Katie Martin and Glendon, chiefly because Glendon was the best known of the Thuringi in town and he was an obvious choice for romantic daydreams. Katie was quizzed every time she arrived at work in the beauty shop about her activities while Lloyd was away in the oil field. At first, she did not know where it was all leading. Once she found out, she was quick to tell the gossipers Lloyd had asked the Thuringi to help her and Monica out in his absence, and they did that and nothing more.
By Jay Michael Jones3 years ago in Futurism
Book 1 Flight of the Armada Chapter 7
The Thuringi scouts grew accustomed to their new outpost planet by painfully slow increments. They were used to the Stellar Council worlds, where the populations were much smaller, the races more definable and the languages easily translated through the Sengan-designed Universal Translator. Earth’s population was greater than all the worlds of the Stellar Council combined, plus the estimated numbers of the Shargassi Empire. Instead of one or perhaps two gods per world (except for the Borelliat who boasted three gods) Earth had multiple religions, multiple political systems, multiple countries, multiple races and multiple civilizations. It was hard enough for the Thuringi to keep abreast of American differences, much less try to incorporate the rest of the hemisphere or the other continents of the world.
By Jay Michael Jones3 years ago in Futurism
Book 1 FLIGHT OF THE ARMADA Chapter 8 Part 1
The next time the Gentrys saw any of the Phillipis, it was Carrol astride Bishop, the bay mare Michael brought out to them. No longer needed for the plow, the horse was petted and pampered by the Thuringi princess. She fashioned a saddle from thick blankets and some flat braided smooth rope that doubled as a cinch from other strips of cloth. Another flat rope was attached to the saddle/cinch combination and its two ends were looped to form stirrups.
By Jay Michael Jones3 years ago in Futurism
Book 1 Flight of the Armada Chapter 6
Brent decided to take the Isador to the Pacific Ocean one fresh Monday after a weekend of rest at the ranch, and he set off for the Strait of Magellan right away. On the map the trip looked interesting but not all that remarkable, but in reality, it took much longer so he sped his ship up a little. The sea was rougher than he realized. He went further south toward where the map showed only a space of white. Brent thought perhaps the mapmakers arbitrarily picked the color for that country the way they chose the colors for other countries.
By Jay Michael Jones3 years ago in Futurism
Book 1 Flight of the Armada Chapter 4
Brent’s initial excitement at exploring the Earthian oceans was tempered by his first good look at a Portuguese man-o-war and noticed the number of fish entangled in its extensions. He recognized a predator when he saw one and as the Isador moved along in the water, he realized how fortunate he had been up until now. Sharks and barracuda and sea snakes were beautiful creatures, but he was completely ignorant about them. They were as bad as parmenters and scorrups of Thuringa. He told himself to be more cautious when exploring outside the Isador. He was the only Aquatic scout, and it would be quite easy to be killed on this alien world. His airbreathing kinsmen might never know what happened.
By Jay Michael Jones3 years ago in Futurism
Book 1 Flight of the Armada Chapter 5 Part 2
On the Sunday before Christmas, Darien prepared to go to the little church Lloyd Martin’s family attended. The other Thuringi, curious to get a first-hand glimpse of the rituals of this strange Christian religion experience, piled into the pickup and went with him. Monica Martin waited by the front of the church. She led the group inside, and they filled an entire back row pew on one side of the church. His peers followed Darien’s lead and removed their hats and quietly observed the activity around them.
By Jay Michael Jones3 years ago in Futurism
Book 1 Flight of the Armada Chapter 5 Part 1
Gareth shivered as he came down the stairs early one Sunday morning. It was unusually cold in the house, and he opened the door to the front room wood stove, expecting to see it dark. To his surprise, the embers glowed red hot and the area immediately around the stove was comfortable. It was the rest of the house that was cold. He added some logs and soon built a roaring fire. He adjusted the flue and went into the kitchen to start up a morning meal. At first, he merely glanced out the window, then snapped back in surprise and stared out.
By Jay Michael Jones3 years ago in Futurism
Book 1 Flight of the Armada Chapter 3 Part 3
Darien's next day in the oil field was no more pleasant than his first, with two exceptions. One, he was assigned to handle the pipe joints for the drill unit and this physical work gave him an outlet for his anger. Two, Darien Phillipi made a friend.
By Jay Michael Jones3 years ago in Futurism
Book 1 Flight of the Armada Chapter 3 Part 4
Stuart obtained a pair of scissors and one Saturday evening he sat down in a kitchen chair. “If I am to contact anyone on this world, I must appear like them. Would someone shorten my hair, please.” Stuart’s long mane of hair reached down to the small of his back. In the Thuringi culture, hair was worn at least shoulder length. Short hair was found only on the young and a few exceptions like Gareth and other mechanics. No one thought it important to clip off one’s hair; trimming was often necessary but to intentionally shear one's head was a strange notion.
By Jay Michael Jones3 years ago in Futurism