The Vault: Tab 2018-19: My Dream Consulting Job — The Trigger was all about dreams. The story I wrote is an actual recreation of a dream I had the night before. It had stayed in my mind for chilling reasons due to it’s reality.
Jack Driscol Mysteries: The Past Never Dies is a stand alone short story involving Jack and a General who was his battalion commander during the Vietnam war. An event from the war comes back to challenge the General’s reputation and he asks Jack to help get to the bottom of issue.
Jack Driscol: The EX: Affair
Chapter 14: Connections — Bennie down at City records reveals to Jack the expanding tentacles of RV Enterprises.
Chapter 15: Bridging the Gaps — Jack enlists the help of Justin Brand, a Forensic investigator formerly an agent in the Internal Revenue Service. He show’s Justin the public records of all the various components of RV Enterprises including State tax records showing little reported profit of the separate companies that are part of the RV empire.
Jack meets again with Will Gordon asking him details of the morning of Charles Gordon’s murder. Will tells him that he sighted one of the RV Enterprises work van entering the mansion grounds as he was leaving to return to college.
1st Transcendence: Chapters 35 to 39: As the Arcielle approaches the rendezvous point with the Neologians, other crew members are brought out of hibernation beginning with Dr. Danyna Wyndham, a psychologist specializing in treating trauma and stress. She and Ginger begin to bond. Additional crew members who were part of the resistance underground, placed on board by Jonathon, are revived to aid in the coming confrontation. Messages are exchanged with the Neologians. Bactor sends another hidden message that Ginger realizes indicates that the Neologians are not what they present themselves to be. This supports Jonathon’s warning about the real intent of the rendezvous.
A second message is sent by the Arcielle. Jonathon and Ginger have a long conversation about her role in any confrontation and her programming to do no harm.