Stories about North America
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
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
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
MIRIAM MEETS HER MATCH Paul was now ready to return the hospitality extended to him when he first arrived at his new home. He consulted with Maria, and she assured him she was able to produce a fine feast for the Sinclair family if he invited them. So, Paul talked with Cynthia his now adopted substitute mother and she agreed the Sinclair’s would attend that … Continue reading THE CONTEST -CHAPTER 3
TROUBLE IN THE NEW HOME Melvin now eighteen was beginning to consider his options in life and was interested in astronomy. He had spent countless hours with adopted grandpa Alex Robinson studying the heavens on that sophisticated computer system and viewing the heavens with Alex patiently introducing him to the complexity of the universe. Learning this Paul invited him to use this equipment whenever he … Continue reading THE CONTEST -CHAPTER 2
NEW NEIGHBOUR Marvin Sinclair paused to check out what appeared to be movements in the next-door neighbour’s empty home alighting from his car after returning home from work at the end of his workday. He’d not seen any movement there since old Alex Robinson had died almost six months ago at age seventy-six though it was obvious someone must be caring for the property as … Continue reading THE CONTEST -CHAPTER 1
A Time of Change Gentle Deer was known to the Krause family and those who frequented their home and workshop as Helga. She’d visited the homeland of Chawathil First Nation traditional owners of the area of Canada where loggers operated on several occasions over the seven-year period she’d now been residing in Vancouver with her parents. She missed the company of her married sisters and … Continue reading Friendships Tried and Tested – Chapter 6
Repairing Broken Relationships It was at that point in time when first Otto returned home from his work followed half an hour later by Hans who marvelling at the silence in his home sped next door to find out what was happening. Both men were shocked at the transformation of the Krause backyard, but Otto was brimming with happiness at his son’s return and apologized … Continue reading Friendships Tried and Tested – Chapter 5
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