JIMMY JONES AND HIS WONDERFUL PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE. At summer camp in Maine, a nine-year old boy creates something impossible, and changes the world. CONVERSATION WITH GENIE. What would it be like to encounter a genie in the 21st century? SOLOMON. The fabled king reflects on his mistakes. THE LITIGATION GAME. The son of an average working class couple dies while attempting a daredevil feat, and his gruesome death is caught on film and becomes the basis for a sensational lawsuit in the television age. SIMPLE ECONOMICS. 1980 in Swampscott, Massachusetts: a boozy lawyer comes up with a...
JIMMY JONES AND HIS WONDERFUL PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE. At summer camp in Maine, a nine-year old boy creates something impossible, and changes the wor...
It seems that Congress is not good for getting anything done these days, but one thing they ARE good at is holding hearings - investigating fairies, say, or kittens. These stories imagine how Congress is spending its time (and your money), and also - a moonlighting Darth Vader - a mysterious new source of quantum energy - an infestation of zombies in a small town in Maine - two new variations on a famous Christmas story by Charles Dickens.
It seems that Congress is not good for getting anything done these days, but one thing they ARE good at is holding hearings - investigating fairies, s...
Being a police officer requires a certain kind of courage that is not physical but moral and mental. It is the courage to embrace the risk that on any given day you will be required to make a split-second decision that will almost certainly be second-guessed by the public, by the media, and even perhaps by your own superiors. The incidence of officer-involved shootings is on the rise, and so is the incidence of school shootings. Yet our expectation remains that the police will do the right thing at the right time, every time. Augusta P.D. Officer Phillip Boudreau is confronted with the need...
Being a police officer requires a certain kind of courage that is not physical but moral and mental. It is the courage to embrace the risk that on any...
Boyd Haskell is fed up - with Governor Ustis, with Senator Millebrand, with the local animal control officer - in fact, with officialdom at every level. Useless bloodsuckers, all of them. And so, he decides to take matters into his own hands. Rufus Logan, staff writer for the Maine Daily News, reports on the chaos that ensues, while the FBI and the Maine State Police try to track down the elusive individual stalking the governor and the senator.
Boyd Haskell is fed up - with Governor Ustis, with Senator Millebrand, with the local animal control officer - in fact, with officialdom at every leve...
