Kidnap and Rescue “Welcome as a temporary recruit of the FBI Christie, we’ve done an exhaustive check on your background and that of your family and are very happy to have you on board. Your skills shown with the Sandusky project have opened a can of worms that goes beyond the United States so let’s see how your skills can be used to help us … Continue reading Christie’s Learning Curve – Chapter 5
Christie Meets the FBI They worked for a week the CPA firm systematically checking every department of the company in turn looking for possible weaknesses in administration, but each department head ran a tight ship, and the usual checks and balances were in place. Considering in their initial tests of the IT system the problem lay elsewhere they left Christie to continue her examination of … Continue reading Christie’s Learning Curve – Chapter 4
Dennis Family Intrigue Randolph Dennis was a significant shareholder in Futuretec, and he’d fully expected his daughter Carole would get to be employed because of her name Dennis. Maybe she was not the brightest scholar in her years at school, but he thought it should be an unspoken rule the people at the top would see they supported each other when it came to plumb … Continue reading Christie’s Learning Curve – Chapter 3
The Perils of Being New Kid on the Block William Faulkner Vice President of Futuretec continued. “Business skills seem to run in the Lesser family Christie. The interview panel very quickly settled on you as the most eligible to join our company family for an internship, but I asked them to hold the phone call until I had an opportunity to interview you personally. You … Continue reading Christie’s Learning Curve – Chapter 2
Christie Gets Her First Job Tonight was a time to recall memories and for some reason those memories took her back to her after graduation interview and first employment. She could see the whole scene enacted in memory as she prepared for her interview for a job with Futuretec corporation that day and all the subsequent events were clear in her mind. Christie Lesser had … Continue reading Christie’s Learning Curve – Chapter 1
From Acceptance to Fulfilment It had been five years since Bill Claridge had rescued Jon Travelly from his dismal existence in the settlement of Redrock far to the west in cattle country. He was now twenty-three years old and no longer the skinny kid Bill had bought home and hosed down to take the filth of living on the streets of Redrock off him with … Continue reading The Rescue and Remaking of Jon Travelly – Chapter 3
Finding Acceptance at Last When the young man Jon was presented with his new clothes Bill drove them home on his motorcycle, parked it and spoke. “I don’t have any more time to spend searching out your teacher James and have a lot of work to do today and you’ll be paying for your board and keep by working with me as I’m not as … Continue reading The Rescue and Remaking of Jon Travelly – Chapter 2
Escape to the Unknown Jon Trevally sat in the back of the truck trailer proceeding east toward the coast. Every rut in the road had him bouncing around the metal floor with nothing to sit on and he could hardly breathe with the dust being generated as the truck raced over those dirt roads, but he was happy. This had been a spur of the … Continue reading The Rescue and Remaking of Jon Travelly – Chapter 1
It was a cold December morning, and Chad Rigby rubbed the frost off his front window to look out over his deep snow-covered North Dakota ranch. He’d need to somehow fight his way through that snow and go check out the housing of his ranch hands and see they were cared for. Most of his temporary ranch hands had fled south to warmer climes for … Continue reading Chad Rigby’s New Year Surprise
Olivia glanced out the window of her Battersea on Thames River apartment. She’d been going over her old family photo albums. Some of the black and white pictures were faded and showed her great grandparents and their surviving generations following. In past centuries, they’d been shopkeepers and their ancestors’ weavers according to stories she remembered from sitting at her grandparent’s feet of long ago and … Continue reading Olivia’s Big Christmas Decision
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