Hello again my people, The Elk is back with another installment of the story, the trails story. Here now is today’s installment. From Chapter Six
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| Burn baby burn |
Out of sight, but not out of the fire. Burnout and still burning on the highway
Shad had hitched a ride with him.
He wasn't going anywhere, in particular, nowhere that is, other than in search
of the long-lost Genodes pellets.
While the over-confident,
over-tattooed haulage trucker dude was there messing around with that driving
bit, Shadow Needleman was concentrating his efforts on the job of hacking the
brakes on the trucker’s very own fast-moving big rig. He never knew what hit
him.
Speaking of a hit, Shadow had was
to whack that meowing pussycat really hard at one point, shut him up real
quick. In his truck, on the seat there on the passenger’s side of the vehicle
to the right of him, there it was, the carrying cage for his
cat-turned-pet-turned-traveling-companion, who the hell carries a cat around in
a truck as a pet and traveling companion?
Whatever happened to man's best
friend? Has he fallen so badly out of favor with the humanoid kinds? Anyways.
He saw the guard rails coming fast,
Shad got out of there real quick. The fast-moving big rig plunged deep into a
ravine and burst into a massive fireball, it just sat there and burn, boy, that
baby did burn.
All that remains of it when it was
over and done, and after the smoke had cleared, all that remained was: twisted
metal, debris, and ashes, lots of ashes.
How in the world could one person
ever get to be so darned lucky though? While some people were there busy, very
busy, hopping across the universe for several millennials, investigating many
and varied lifeforms and species, as well as scanning through many and varied
dimensions, all in the never-ending search for the illusive Genodes pellets.
This one over-tattooed trucker was
found there carrying around: not one, but two pellets under his skin? Wow, what
a dude. Well, guess who has got them now?
N.B There is a little adjustment to
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Extra, extra
1998 - Three federal judges
secretly granted Kenneth Starr authority to probe whether U.S. President
Clinton or Vernon Jordan urged Monica Lewinsky to lie about her relationship
with Clinton.
1979 - The Shah of Iran and his
family fled Iran for Egypt.
1964 - "Hello Dolly!"
opened at the St. James Theatre in New York City.
1961 - Mickey Mantle signed a
contract that made him the highest paid baseball player in the American League
at $75,000 for the 1961 season. Imagine that!
1900 - The U.S. Senate consented to
the Anglo-German treaty of 1899, by which the U.K. renounced rights to the
Samoan islands.
1547 - Ivan the Terrible was
crowned Czar of Russia.
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