FALLOUT, The Jennifer Harrington Jones Prequel – Chapter 5

Chapter 5 To facilitate evacuation of steam and fumes, the cooling tower curved concavely in the middle and swelled out at a gentle angle. As Jennifer approached the “waist”, she realized her backpack would hang backwards for the rest of the climb to the top. Her pack...

FALL OUT, The Jennifer Harrington Jones Prequel – Chapter 4

  “So you can’t ride to Hornell with us this weekend?” asked an incredulous Peter and Petra at the same time. Jennifer had ridden regularly with the group for the last year, even through summer jobs. No one had missed. It felt like a travesty. Soon it would snow...
FALLOUT, The Jennifer Harrington Jones Prequel – Chapter 2

FALLOUT, The Jennifer Harrington Jones Prequel – Chapter 2

 A week later, halfway through ceramic materials lab, Jennifer had a thought. She walked up to the lab assistant Terrance, “Do we have any mildly radioactive chemical elements in the lab?”He smirked,” Why?”“Well I know uranium makes a great deep yellow at...
FALLOUT, The Jennifer Harrington Jones Prequel – Chapter 1

FALLOUT, The Jennifer Harrington Jones Prequel – Chapter 1

 After months of quasi – dating, both Peter and Jennifer have questions.“And if this time together morphs into a relationship?”“You mean, if I get pregnant.”Peter’s warm brown eyes regarded Jennifer dispassionately.“Abortion probably…. though now, there’s the...
Lobsters in Maine

Lobsters in Maine

College was done for the summer. I’d been invited on a sailing trip with my roommate Jillian, through the islands off Maine’s coast and a stay with her friend Sam in Kennebunkport. Wending the waters through the small bits and larger acreage on the Atlantic’s edge. We...