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Someone is stealing diamonds, thousands of carets and returning most of them for a very small finder’s fee. No diamond merchants are pressing charges. A huge purchase was made and then 80% were sold at a loss but the rest were kept. Inspector Strong in a Chief’s meeting noted, “Someone is inspecting...

Georgette is in a school lab with a Nobel prize winner. She has her own experiments, which should have given more accuracy, but does not keep the accuracy she had. Off to the school lab that built it. William says it was not his coiling unit. He suggests she look at the real math. In her shower she...

At the start of time, an explosion occurred and eons later the light travels until it enters a small system with four bodies. It is so bright it upsets nature on the second body. A young girl of only one cycle old leaves childhood and goes to a learning center. She loves ciphers and soon is above...

In the far west is a used car lot, known as Slim Sams. The cars are all used, and most people would junk them. That is where most of his cars come from. When they leave his shop, they are built to last. He lives in a trailer on the lot and has two employees. He just makes the weekly payroll. On morning...

An urban legend has Alligators in Green Lake, which is near downtown Seattle. A pet alligator either escaped or was set free in the lake. While having never been seen, it still accounts for all the missing pets in north Seattle. Rage and Jones are having a sunny outing at the lake when a mother screams,...

An unknown person is feeding a weekly newspaper information about the financial health of the State. They must print the story or someone else will. But no large newspaper would dare print it. The weekly bets the farm it is accurate. Its first every Extra addition is printed, and it must sell, or...

A large corporation just bought the News-One paper and all its TV and radio stations. He has the reputation of turning a profit by cutting to the bone. The owner in his first meeting sets aside the top ten senior people and the foxy TV anchor. It will be a complete make over. He cancelled their most...

A young couple on vacation stops at a ‘pan your own gold’ place in central Idaho. Jill is a natural and recovers $50 in gold. He buys a very old Spanish book in the next college town They go to see Jill’s friend, Sally who is going to college. She is trying to map what the Mexican border will...

The central human brain has 27 feeders and only 9 receptors and they do not touch. It is an outstanding question as how the correct protein is manufactured, moved to, and then taken by one of the receptors. If not correctly, the color red would taste sweet. Kathy is a lab. tech studying this question...

Why protect an old roster, hen, and chicks. The protection is complete, 24 hours a day. Why call the assignment ‘close encounters of the 4th type?’ The army has the job to hide and protect the design team and are issued a nuclear weapon to protect them, if necessary. The President of the USA has...

A large black Viking box is unearthed after being found by ground radar. It is of unknown date and is a one-piece rock with a lid. The box has writings in it. The language is so ancient it is not readable. The picture in it cannot be true because it is counter to all the scientific knowledge of the...

Homicide detective Rage is hiking alone on Mount Rainier. She is on a seldom traveled path, in the ice, snow, and has seen no one. She hears pop, pop. It makes her nervous. At her camp she sets it up and sleeps away from it. Someone shoots up her camp and takes all her supplies. But she hid some like...

On the phone, “Someone just held up the Animal Shelter, shot the Pound attendant, and took our computers and radios. They are gone and I am fine. Send the police and an aid car, hurry.” The 911 Center sends the help and the Commander calls in the homicide detectives. Minutes later, the...

In Frisco there is a Billiard Emporium with three floors. Most anyone can use the first-floor tables. The second floor is still for general use. But the third floor is by invitation only. It is almost guarded by an old Japanese man. There is floor director at the front door. He knows where you will...