The Gathering Storm, Part 5

[ - To view a list of all current chapters, click here - ] In the middle of a mid-March afternoon, with the sun out and hardly a cloud in the sky, the last thing Martin Osbourne—known to many associates and enemies as Marty the Hun for his take-no-prisoners, kill-or-be-killed attitude—expected to be doing was [...]

Customer Relations

God bless the law of unintended benefits. Every day James opened this store and had a steady flow of customers, and every day he saw a healthy profit in the cash drawer—and those were most days of the week—he was glad all the odds-makers had been wrong. If he’d listened to people like that, he [...]