Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, 507 Broad Street, Lake Geneva, WI (2025)

09/18/2025

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume VI, Chapter X

Christmas slowly moves on, hurried only by the arrival of a huge blizzard that also moves on, leaving the remainder of some supposed alien relic laying under a piñon bush out in the desert to be either retrieved or proven to be merely the bait to allow my assassination. Phil Marlowe's presence (the shooter) in the same city creates a security problem that must be dealt with, snow or no snow, relic or no relic. Moving to action whether sanctioned by the Agency or not becomes of paramount importance.

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I held back for a few seconds before committing. I was in Albuquerque, USA, and not in some combat zone, no matter what had happened earlier. If the car twenty meters away held hostiles, then people were going to die, with possibly the three of us among the dead. The Christmas carol played loudly wi...

09/11/2025

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume VI, Chapter IX

The explosive nature of the assassination even out in the New Mexico desert can't be flushed from my mind as I work to build security, keep my careers and attempt to gain control over difficult but oh so capable players around me. My efforts to prove my reality continue to fall flat and must be shored up with near death-threats which become much more acceptable in belief than trying to accommodate or understand my background. A storm comes out of nowhere to bring even more drama to a situation dripping with it.

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I could not let the security of my family lie in the hands of CIA handlers, even those like my war hero in two wars control officer. The move to have Marlow incorporated and then included in active DEA missions was inconclusive to me. He had to be motivated to get out of New Mexico […]

09/06/2025

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume VI, Chapter VIII
The assassination attempt on my life remains laying at the bottom of most of my thoughts although Christmas with my wife and kids must include none of that. I cannot share with my wife without ruining everything and spinning my life into a vortex of potential violence death and fear. I must fix the situation but not let on that its being fixed and I must find a way to do it without leaving the Agency, the insurance business or the new international effort to provide insurance cover for getting agents secretly without suspicion into other countries...and then there was Wet and evacuation operation he was heading up against my better judgement. My control officer was leaving way too much to me, not fully aware that I was better at portraying myself as some sort of superman without being one.

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I don’t believe in UFOs or any of that, but does that matter?” The alien piece out in the desert, is still out there,

08/20/2025

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume VI, Chapter VI

Life changes for me from one of coming home to extreme complexity, the Christmas holiday with my family, fitting it all together somehow right up to when everything changed into a fight for short term, and then long term, survival and careers. Coming back at invisible enemies, kind of knowing that Mallorca had somehow followed me home and quite possibly meant that I could no longer go out on missions in a world where I was known as an agent of the CIA, I was in a familiar bind. I could not seem to move forward or back. Maybe up, as was suggested to me. One man, whom I believed behind the attempt on my life shows up for Christmas so completely idiotically and unexpectantly I didn't know what to do with him...or me.

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The road that wasn’t a road appeared before me, as I crawled to come to its rough edge. I was facing Albuquerque. My sense of direction returned, and the terror of being killed, once again, was replaced by a dedicated desire to right the balance of justice in my favor, but I badly needed water [.....

08/14/2025

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume VI, Chapter V

Returning home after the Mallorca Island mission was difficult for a number of reasons. I wasn't sure of what really had happened, been concluded or what. I was a bit afraid that things had gone so terribly wrong that my future wih the Agency might be compromised, or worse. I'd once again performed well in a firled operation but had only my own opinion of that to bavk me up. Home and Christmas were calling and I so much needed the rest and council from my so sensible loving wife. But Mallorca was a long way away only in measurable numerical distance, not in the reality of international life.

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The money for Nguyen and Kingsley had to be retrieved from the paymaster at the Air Force Base, and I knew I was the only one who could present himself in person to claim it. The system, all military and civil governmental systems, were peculiarly protective of cash and its distribution. Quincy woul...

08/10/2025

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume VI, Chapter IV

The series of disasters that overtook what started out as a simple diplomatic mission ends with the death of three people, all by violent hands and means, and the mission 'leftovers' continue to flow home after I finally get there again, A break for Christmas is again interrupted with vital contacts, rather outlandish offers and a glance once again into a future filled with coming and existing details of life itself on the planet that are as unlikely as they are unbelievable, but still right there...sitting in reality...a realty that has changed completely since I received the artifact years earlier.

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The Galaxy was headed for Travis Air Force Base, which meant, since Travis was about sixty-five miles northeast of the airport in San Francisco, that Dave and I would have to make that trip and then fly commercial home, he to Scottsdale and me to Albuquerque. There was no way to make arrangements ab...

07/24/2025

THE COWARDLY LION, VOLUME VI, CHAPTER III

The rubber hits the road and the decision is made to risk taking the shot and not either running in the face of potential mafia pursuit or trying to negotiate a way through the conundrum of my having killed the Mafia Chief’s son. The procedure is without team support of any kind or even Agency approval but certain things must have a cap put on them or the risk to myself, my future and even my family's safety are all on the table until some kind of closure can be made.

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The Fletcher coasted to a complete stop in the middle of the estuary pond. Dave got hold of the poles and set them so they’d protrude out over the water, both on the hull facing away from the estate. I unlimbered the rifle from its leather case below the edge of the port gunwale so […]

07/16/2025

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume VI, Chapter II
Once again, reality overcomes the surreal make believe world of our hopes, dreams, wants and desires, as the mission to the island of Mallorca off of Spain in the Mediterranean is snuffed out only to be replaced by a new unplanned and unnounced mission, much more critical and much more violent than the supposed quiet and peaceful mission the first one had been designed to be. I take command of another outfit in combat, my rank even lower than the lieutenancy I was when in the A Shau Valley combat, my unit of only two men instead of company this time Just one other man and I. The CIA abandons us so as to distance itself for what is coming next...which they can't know is coming but are counting on.

Chapter I had to be rewritten so go back and reread that piece. Somehow the editing ended up jumbling the intent and meaning of what was going on. The rewrite, which I finished yesterday helps braid that first mission on Mallorca into the second, also on the same island. Order the new Volume V early and I'll much appreciate and inscribe your copy accordingly. And many thanks.

David White stared at me, his expression one of initial shock wearing toward unwilling acceptance. Watching him make up his mind was an exercise in patience, but also a participation in entertainment. I waited for him to move. Movement meant life. Movement meant following a decision, even if it wasn...

07/09/2025

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume VI, Chapter I
The new volume begins although it does not start out as a mission ends on the Island of Mallorca in the Mediterranean Sea.
It starts with my being recalled as awful strange stuff becomes known to the Agency and that Agency dumps it all in my lap without counsel or instructions on how to proceed. The chapter isolates and explores by active illustration just how far the 'home office' was in real mental distance from field activities in foreign countries. And the blood of the A Shau will not wash out, instead covered over with scabs and layers of more.

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Prologue The mission on the island of Mallorca, located just off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, was concluded. A lot of nothing had happened, at least from a perceived observational conclusion by both Dave White, my assigned partner, and me. I’d killed a man, we’d been pursued, and we....

07/03/2025

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume V, Chapter ###

Mallorca proves to be a totally outrageous 'play it by ear' mission with my partner David While introduced as something or someone he certainly didn't appear be by reports from my control officer. The Island in the Mediterranean comes across as idyllic but the forces gathered there demonstrate that they are not only refusing to negotiate but are also immediately and damn near successful in 'accidentally' killing me...force my first real encounter like that since the A Shau Valley nightmare of years ago. This chapter serves as the last in the Volume Five issue of the The Cowardly Lion series and will be available in book form very soon.

Order in advance now as Chuck will instruct for those so moved to do so. The first chapter of Volume VI will appear next week without a break at all. Thanks for supporting that effort while we get the fifth volume out to you *which takes editing, graphics, print and font selections and the rest of the detail that goes into publishing all on our own.

My partner, David, was likely fast asleep in the room we shared, a hundred and fifty feet up from where I played with and inside my ocean. I could not use the lobby, the elevators, or even the stairs to reach that room as the body lying on the far shore would bring an ever-expanding […]

07/03/2025

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume V, Chapter ###

Mallorca proves to be a totally outrageous 'play it by ear' mission with my partner David While introduced as something or someone he certainly didn't appear be by reports from my control officer. The Island in the Mediterranean comes across as idyllic but the forces gathered there demonstrate that they are not only refusing to negotiate but are also immediately and damn near successful in 'accidentally' killing me...force my first real encounter like that since the A Shau Valley nightmare of years ago. This chapter serves as the last in the Volume Five issue of the The Cowardly Lion series and will be available in book form very soon.

Order in advance now as Chuck will instruct for those so moved to do so. The first chapter of Volume VI will appear next week without a break at all. Thanks for supporting that effort while we get the fifth volume out to you *which takes editing, graphics, print and font selections and the rest of the detail that goes into publishing all on our own.

My partner, David, was likely fast asleep in the room we shared, a hundred and fifty feet up from where I played with and inside my ocean. I could not use the lobby, the elevators, or even the stairs to reach that room as the body lying on the far shore would bring an ever-expanding […]

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