‘Room 28. Level 5.’
‘Yes? Is there a problem?’
‘It’s locked.’
‘Is it?’ Straker didn’t look up.
‘Any particular reason? I mean.. does anyone ever go down there? The lower levels? It’s all distribution rooms and redundancy back-up systems.’ Continue reading
Straker put the phone down, sighing. Another problem sorted and yet another late night. He pushed his chair back, allowing himself the luxury of a lengthy stretch and a yawn, then checked his watch. Eighteen hours behind him and a full shift ahead. The problems involving Skydiver’s resupply schedule had taken hours to rectify and he was simply too weary to go home, not that there was much point in that. He had enough time for a shower and maybe a catnap before his first meeting of the day. Continue reading
A day that will live on in the minds of all those people who read Heinlein and other early sci-fi novels, and who probably watched Fireball XL5 and Thunderbirds and who were eagerly awaiting the broadcast of the first episode of UFO.
Let’s look towards a landing on Mars. Continue reading
RIP.
A wonderful actor.
Sleep eluded him, the once-familiar lines and angles in his bedroom morphing into strange and somewhat threatening shapes. Long-forgotten monsters from his childhood lurked in every corner and he sat up, rubbing his face with a trembling hand, reluctant to turn on the light. Continue reading
Written for the AO3 Yuletide Challenge.
When I was given the task of writing a Captain Scarlet story for the Challenge, I remembered a comic strip from years ago, and one particular illustration from that strip became the starting point for my story. Continue reading
This is set in the era of the original series, and comes some time after the episodes ‘Conflict’ and ‘Court Martial’.
Doug Jackson was one of the most enigmatic of the characters in UFO, a man who seemed to have his own agenda at times. There is virtually no backstory for him and in this story I have attempted to give him some ‘past’, some reason for his, at times, very reserved behaviour. This has been harder to write than I anticipated, but I hope that my recipient enjoys it.
It contains snow. And Christmas. And Straker. (And some angst) What more can anyone ask for? 😉
