(I, the Author, made a boo boo. No, not Yogi Bear's friend but a mistake. I put a middle bit of chapter six on before the beginning. So here is the beginning of chapter six from the beginning.)
CHAPTER SIX
The room was dark except for the light coming from the projector. Carstairs was showing Arthur and Sid what skull island looked like. Governor Darby had excused himself and returned to his tea party.
“This is what skull island looks like,” explained Carstairs.
“What an apt name,” droned Arthur sarcastically, “it looks like a skull.”
“If it didn’t have those two chunks out of the side then it would look like a bowling ball,” commented Sid.
“Well actually it was called bowling ball island,” advised Croploft, “but when Puffgarden acquired it he blew the sides off to create a skull shape.”
“Any way,” continued Carstairs, “each eye socket…”
“Or finger hole,” butted in Sid.
“Please let me continue without being interrupted,” re-continued Carstairs, “each socket, we believe, contains an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile.”
“What does the nose socket contain?” asked Sid, “Inter-Continental Bogey Missiles?”
“It’s nothing to be sneezed at,” sneezed Arthur.
Carstairs looked at Sid and Arthur but they couldn’t see each other because the screen had gone dark. It looked a bit like the cover for The Inky Blackness.
Carstairs soldiered on, which is a bit of an anachronism really because he was in the navy, “The nose socket is the main access to the underground base. It has a helipad and an area for the jump jets to land.”
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Romancing the Drone
Science FictionArthur is now working for British Intelligence in the romance dimension. A foreign power has captured a cutting edge surveillance drone and he must recover it. Of course things would be easier if it didn't have a mind of its own.
