History, Politics And Current Affairs

3 At first light on April 22nd 1941, a ceasefire came into effect to bring a stop in fighting with the Second Great War. Across Europe and Africa, the opposing Allied and Axis forces took a pause trying to kill each other. It had taken a week of talks, ones held in Geneva, but the eventual outcome ...

I read the story at least once a year. It's just a brilliant adventure. The Demon army is going to move fast though. There will be big battles but human armies will struggle to get into place. I've changed a few things. Dragons as Heralds, not larger Harpies. The Hellmouth is further south. A few ot...

2 General Abigor’s army consisted of sixty legions, less than one hundredth of the available strength of Hell’s available combat forces. A small force it might have been percentage-wise, but not when formed up on Earth. With haste, in under half a day, the four hundred thousand Demons were out of t...

1 The Message came in the middle of April 1941. A good portion of the world was celebrating Easter Friday. There was global conflict underway at the time and international tensions aplenty too. From the heavens above came The Message. A voice claimed to be God, the one true God, and he announced th...

I've been writing a fanfiction-type story, one based upon Armageddon.
It's set in 1941 and different in style & substance from the masterpiece that the original story is.

Chilling The body count would be immense, even if everything soon came back on like nothing happened. Excellent, though terrifying... Yes, a 'super-Carrington' event would toss most of us back to Medieval level, for which scant few of us have any appropriate skills. Couple of things: If severe enou...

Just a simple one-shot piece for a possible submission somewhere. Any feedback welcome. When the lights went out It was a late Thursday afternoon when it happened. I remember looking at the time when it said three thirty-three, that stuck with me. At least twenty minutes later, maybe more, but befo...

If she did, she wouldn’t have wanted to go out like that.
Standing with an AK-47 in the Kremlin... maybe. At the hands of her eventual killer... no way.

25 – Gypsy Cop In an agreement with the government in Wellington, Ksenia was resettled in New Zealand under a new identity. The Russian spook who had been kidnapped by her own people pending a likely murder, was flown to the far side of the world where she could be safe. There was an extensive debr...

Thanks.
The finale is below.

24 – The Goldmine Hannah stared in at Phoebe through the one-way glass. Seated in the middle of an interrogation room, the older spook had her head down with tears flowing freely. Phoebe’s left leg was shaking, reminding Hannah of a drug addict in serious need of a fix. Narcotics weren’t Phoebe’s p...

23 – Scars Glenford Pierce, the latest victim of one of Josephine’s scams, and someone whose money was currently benefitting Katerina too, arrived before nine the next morning. Katerina was upstairs in the master bedroom and trying to decide what to wear. Josephine had supplied the clothes – Glenfo...

jemhouston wrote: ↑Mon May 26, 2025 5:05 pm She probably needed to stop to think about her next move, but I hope she doesn't stick around for long.

An escape is already laid on. Britain is too small to hide in, and where so many people will be looking.
Overseas is the best route yet she'll leave in style.

22 – My precious Three separate black cab drivers on Bayswater Road had ignored her. Three! Katerina had never known anything like it. She loved London for its transport systems – its taxis, its Tube & its urban trains – which had always favoured her. Of course, Moscow’s was better, but Britain...

jemhouston wrote: ↑Wed May 21, 2025 11:09 pm Easier said than done. She's either in a long term bolt hole or out of the country.

Out will be the best bet. But it needs funding first.

21 – New Forest Ambush Nathan was in a car with blue flashing lights. It wasn’t a police car though the lights behind the front grill were fitted to give it the appearance of one. Those were on and flashing as the Saab sedan raced up behind an old panel van. “Stuff it, I’m hitting the siren too.” T...

jemhouston wrote: ↑Sun May 18, 2025 1:47 am Run far and fast, then into a deep hole.

She will, but she'll leave in style.

20 – The Service will want its revenge The MV Venus made port late on a Thursday evening. It was dark, cold, windy and wet. The weather matched the waters: unsettled and foreboding. Into Poole, down in Dorset, the little ship went. The captain dealt with the harbour master while his crew set about ...

Big it's going to be.

19 – SPEARMINT caught Katerina was away from the rezidentura this morning. She took part in nothing more than a farce therefore missing the events back there, all for the sake of appearances and a bigger cause than the one which she was fighting for. Her absence was due to the need to meet with Zac...