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Post by ydderf on Apr 5, 2024 15:22:28 GMT -6
Thanks iamnobody
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Post by iamnobody on Apr 8, 2024 5:57:38 GMT -6
Jim had read a bunch of the SHTF stories on the pawfiction proboards and they always had their characters being attacked by the bad guys and always meeting up with or already having a wonderful woman at their side and its a wonderful romance but only that one writer iamnobody had thrown cold water on the romance by writing stories about the woman giving the man a STD. Catching a STD from the woman with you in a SHTF situation didn't fit the romantic idea of the story. He remembered reading that STDs were quite common in real life, that 1 in 8 people had a STD. Those were bad odds for not catching one and you couldn't tell if a person had a STD just by looking at them. It didn't matter how clean the woman (or man) looked, they could have a STD and not even be aware of it. At least he and Ana were being cured of it, the doctor having told them to refrain from sex for a week. Jim watched his wife moving around the kitchen, how beautiful she was to him and knew it was going to be a very long week without being with her.
Fall had come and there were less chores to do. He had talked with Li and was told there was no way Li could make it for Thanksgiving this year. It was horrible because of the pagan religion having taken over in most people. Christians were being persecuted for their beliefs anywhere they were found. Li was finding it hard to preach as very few wanted to hear it, saying it was all foolishness, that any wise person knew Lucifer and Gaia were the gods. But the people were fulfilling God's word: (1 Corinthians 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.) Jim told Li he would be missed and to be safe, that Jim and his wife would miss seeing him. Li said – WIFE? YOU? When and who? So he filled Li in on getting married to his wonderful Ana. Li congratulated them.
Winter was colder and more snow. Jim didn't bother keeping the snow plowed out to the road, figuring it was best just to let outsiders forget they were back here. Ana said that would make it easier for her to chase him around the house and have her way with him. Winter hung on and spring time came in May. And that is when the trouble started. The US government had been breeding flies to release upon the people as a control mechanism on them. But God had other plans and it backfired on them.
The government released genetically bred flies they grew in a lab. The flies were 1 inch long and they ended up attacking only non Christians. They would attack people and use a stinger to inject their eggs into people after numbing the area so people didn't feel the attack. The larvae would hatch and be eating into people's flesh for 5 days until they backed out as new flies. This lasted for 45 days before the flies died off. The larvae eating inside their flesh released toxins that made people very sick. A lot went mentally insane at the thought that something was inside them eating their flesh, hospitals were overwhelmed, gov had told people it was too dangerous to try to remove them without proper medical training. The larvae in people's flesh looked a lot like in this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Iyjnk5ZOfE
It was soon noticed that the flies avoided laying their eggs in the outcast Christians that worshiped God. Coincidentally there were a lot of preachers, deacons, choir singers and pew sitters that had lots of fly eggs laid in them. The flies seemed to make a point in laying several of their eggs in people's face so that it would be highly visible. It also turned out months later that the holes left when the larvae hatched out and left the body, didn't heal over and left ugly sunken craters in the skin. Jim's ex wife and her preacher had large amounts of eggs laid in them. The ex wife was a beautiful woman and was very vain about her beauty, so when she now had all the pock marks on her face and body from the flies, she blamed Christians and vowed to wipe true Christians off the face of the Earth. As priestess of the gods of Lucifer and Gaia, she had the US government declare Christians to be outlaws and a $50,000 bounty placed on their dead heads. It would be easy to see who they were because they had no larvae holes on their faces.
The first Jim and Ana were aware of the flies was when a swarm of them showed up at the farm. They heard a buzzing that got louder. They were looking all around and then spotted the swarm of about 100 flies moving towards them. At first Jim thought they would be headed towards the cattle and pigs but the flies went past the livestock and were zeroing in on him and her. As they neared, they could see large flies at least 1 inch long. Then they were enveloped by the swarm of flies. Jim and Ana were aware of big horseflies and how hard they bit so were leery of the flies. The flies made passes at them, coming close and then buzzing off. Within a minute of the flies arrival, they suddenly took off and headed elsewhere.
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Post by ydderf on Apr 8, 2024 7:54:10 GMT -6
thanks
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Post by gipsy on Apr 8, 2024 7:54:25 GMT -6
See those guys come out of animals on the vet shows. It looked like she was infested with them. Yuck. Thanks for the update.
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Post by iamnobody on Apr 9, 2024 10:29:20 GMT -6
On the shortwave receiver he was hearing of these flies all over the country. The flies were only going after people and no animals which was strange. Then in several weeks it was noticed that the real Christians were not having eggs laid in them. Jim realized that was what happened when the swarm of flies came around him and Ana and then left without touching them. He had talked with Li who filled him in on the $50,000 bounty placed on Christians heads. Li said that he was in hiding because of that. He had seen the people that had eggs laid in them and the larvae hatched out. There were deep craters left. He said there were a lot of people that were now borderline mental because they couldn't handle the thought of a “dirty fly” eating inside their bodies. Li told them about the many preachers that had the ravages of the flies permanently etched into their faces and bodies. It turns out they weren't really Christians, they were only pretending for the prestige and money.
Li told them that the people that went mentally ill from the larvae in them were at first just wandering the streets, often collapsing and left laying there. Soon the government had crews picking up the bodies of the dead and even the ones in the hospital that were sick from the fluids released by the larvae eating inside of them. None of them were seen again and rumors were flying that they were dumped in mass graves. He told Jim that Christians were very hated because they didn't suffer the same fate of getting the larvae and disfiguration. A day after talking with Li, Jim got a call from his parents. He was outside and it went to voicemail. When they came back inside, Ana said his phone message light was blinking. It was his dad that talked, saying he was just checking in to see how Jim was doing, that they haven't heard from him for a while. Then he asked Jim to email a picture so they could see what he looked like since they hadn't seen him in years. His dad said goodbye but his phone didn't hang up right away and he heard his mom in the background saying she couldn't wait to get that $50,000 bonus on Christians. Ana put her hand on Jim's arm and said she was sorry his parents were like that, then hugged him. She could fill the tension in his body, it felt like steel.
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Post by gipsy on Apr 9, 2024 12:12:55 GMT -6
Can't pick your relatives
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Post by bluefox2 on Apr 9, 2024 17:26:49 GMT -6
Can't pick your relatives Nope, but in a situation like this you can bury them. Or not
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Post by gipsy on Apr 9, 2024 19:11:51 GMT -6
Or get out some makeup and send them a really ugly picture.
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Post by iamnobody on Apr 12, 2024 15:43:32 GMT -6
Jim stood there for a solid 5 minutes, his whole body tensed up and rigid. His own parents were trying to set him up – again. This was the 2nd time they had done it. The bible says that a man's worst enemies would be from his own family. Matthew 10:36 KJV And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. Also Matthew 24:12 KJV And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. Jim was done with his parents. As far as he was concerned, he was disowning them, to him they was as if they were dead. Ana told him that he still had her. He looked at her and said that she is all he needs, then pulled her into his arms. She felt the love he had for her flow from him to her, and she loved it. She was so happy she was his wife and he was her husband. She knew God had blessed her in bringing them together.
Winter rolled around and again they stayed home, not plowing the road. Listening to the news, everything was getting worse for Christians. One day in early February they were watching the news on the internet when they saw Li. They saw him stripped naked and being hauled through the streets on the end of a rope leash with his hands tied behind his back. He was being pushed and shoved by the throngs of laughing people lining the street. His face was covered with bruises and blood was seeping from different gashes on his body. The video showed him stumbling along as other people spat on him.
Then they reached the city park where it showed his ex wife and the preacher waiting on Li's arrival. Laying on the ground in front of them was a large wooden cross. They brought Li close to the priest and priestess of Lucifer and Gaia. His ex wife told Li to kneel before Lucifer and receive the mercy of the god. Li shook his head no and Jim watched as 2 people rushed out of the crowd and kicked Li's legs out from under him, causing him to kneel. Jim recognized them, it was his dad and mom. Some men unbound Li and then held him in place on the cross. With maniacal laughs, the priest and priestess knelt over Li and using hammers, drove nails into his hands and feet, nailing him to the cross. They said if he wanted to follow that fake God, he would die just like in that fake book, the bible.
Several men hoisted the cross with Li on it and set it in a hole in the ground. Pain was clearly etched on his face as the cross thudded home. Jim's ex wife stepped forth and told Li this was his last chance to swear allegiance to Lucifer, the cross was a painful death. Li looked towards Heaven and started reciting Psalms 23:4-6 KJV Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever. As Li finished the verses, a ray of sunshine seemed to shine down on him through the clouds. Li said that he commits his soul to the LORD God Almighty. It would take 36 hours for Li to die. The followers of Lucifer and Gaia tormented him the whole time. At his death, it was announced that this is what happened to non believers in the gods of Lucifer and Gaia. There was a party that lasted 4 days because Li had been a big thorn in their side with his preaching of God's word.
Jim and Ana were aghast at the treatment of Li. He told her that just a few years ago people would of said that there was no way something like this could happen in the US, it was filled with many Christian people. Over the previous decades, there had been many prominent leaders that had stealthily displayed satanic hand gestures on TV. But here they were, now openly worshiping the devil. In bed that night, Jim held Ana in his arms all night. Morning found them still wrapped in each others arms.
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Post by gipsy on Apr 12, 2024 21:31:51 GMT -6
Great but sad update. Thanks
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Post by sniper69 on Apr 13, 2024 6:13:08 GMT -6
iamnobody - thank you for the chapters. It definitely makes one think, especially with seeing how a lot of folks are in the world and in "churchianity". Looking forward to reading moar of your writings.
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Post by iamnobody on Apr 15, 2024 8:29:11 GMT -6
Jim mourned the passing of his friend Li but knew that he was now with the Lord Jesus in Heaven. Several weeks later the news announced that everyone had to swear their allegiance to the Church of the Enlightened Ones. People had 45 days to comply. After that any one not accepting Lucifer and Gaia as gods would have all utilities shut off and banking accounts would be confiscated. Jim looked at Ana and said that it looks like they are permanently cut off from society now, what they had is all they had. He told her that he had just lost $15,000,000+ that he had in the banks. She looked at him like he was crazy, then realized he was serious. “You are a millionaire?” Jim said he was a millionaire but now with the announcement, he is now just a poor hillbilly. Ana snuggled up to Jim and told him that she would rather have him as her husband than to have lots of money. He picked her up and carried her into their bedroom.
On the 46th day after the announcement, they woke up to no electricity and no phone. Jim had already installed the 2 solar panels he had and hooked them up to the battery. All he wanted was enough juice to run his shortwave receiver and his laptop for info that he had stored on there. Yesterday he had placed the hand water pump on the water well head. The day before he had dug a pit and built an outhouse over it. Jim said he felt like he was living in the 1800s, Ana laughed and said this is how she grew up.
The news on the shortwave reported that some Christians were being killed and were having their dead bodies hung from lamp posts along the streets. The priest and priestess forbade all marriages and dissolved all current ones, no one was to be tied down with just one sex partner. It was “free love” everywhere. Children were removed from the parents, to be raised by sub priests of Lucifer and Gaia and taught the true enlightenment. Good was now evil and punishable by death, and evil was now good and rewarded.
Sitting on the porch resting after lunch, Jim spotted some movement off in the forest. Then a bullet took a chip out of the railing near them. He dived forward behind a planters box in front of the steps and Ana dived inside the house. Both of them stated shooting at the group of people now rushing across the field at them. To Jim it looked like something out of one of those Hollywood movies of gangbangers. He could see some with handguns, brandishing them in the air and firing shots off. Others had rifles and were shooting wildly as they ran toward Jim and Ana. He could hear Ana's AR15 behind and above him as she shot. He kept shooting and they both were dropping the enemy at almost every shot. He guesstimated there was at least 40 of the attackers. Jim and Ana were pounding shot after shot into the enemy which was close enough now that Jim's bullets were going through one of their bodies and into the person behind them. Bullets were thumping into the dirt filled planter box he was behind and he heard others thudding into the armored house wall. He heard the buzz of a bullet going by his head.
Then the last of the attackers were down. The only sound now was from several wounded attackers moaning on the ground. Jim yelled at Ana to see if she was okay, she was. He said to come out and get behind the planter to cover him as he checked on the attackers. Jim took out the partial magazine and inserted a full one into his AR15 before checking the enemy. Ana inserted a full magazine too. Cautiously he moved forward, at least remembering not to be between Ana's field of fire and the attackers. The bullets had did a lot of damage. The 55gr FMJ bullets from the 20 inch barrels had did what they were designed for. They entered and then tumbled in the flesh like a buzzsaw. He threw weapons away from the attackers, dead or not. Better safe than sorry. He didn't want a “dead” enemy suddenly to get up and shoot him in the back. He was close in his guesstimate, there were 39 of them. He checked on out and into the forest but saw no sign of more attackers.
Jim had dragged the 3 wounded attackers away from the dead bodies, it was 1 woman and 2 men. They all had the pock faces from the fly larvae. He waved Ana out to him as he began questioning them. No matter what he asked them, all he got out of them was Jim and Ana needed to worship Lucifer and Gaia. He ended up shooting all 3 of them in the head. Checking through the enemy he found 28 men and 11 women, they each had an identification card showing they were part of the “church.” No food or water, nor any other supplies. Jim stripped the bodies, saving the clothes and stacked the guns and ammo they had. He used the tractor and dug a deep hole at the edge of the field, making a mass grave for the bodies. Then they stockpiled the guns and supplies into one of the outlying supply holes.
When finished he told Ana to gear up, they needed to backtrack the group and see what they found. Even to their untrained ways, it was easy to see the way the enemy came. They found the 2 closest neighbor couples dead from attacks. They were elderly and looked like they were taken by surprise. Both couples were shot in the head at close range, their hair singed by the gunshots. Both couples, men and women looked like they had been “abused,” whether before or after their death, Jim couldn't tell. They did a quick burial of both couples. Further on, they found what looked like bus tracks on the dirt road. It looked like the bus had dropped them off and then left.
Back at his house, they did a quick check to make sure everything was okay. It was. Jim did a quick feeding of the livestock and milked the cow. The cow was approaching the end of her milking cycle, he had no idea where he could find a bull to breed her for another calf and more milk. Ana started making a quick supper for them and then both decided to sleep on the porch for the night.
As the weeks passed, it was the daily routine of farm work. The cow had dried up so there was no longer any milking chores. This year he had only traded with the neighbor for 1 pig to raise for meat. He would also butcher the last beef steer he had. He planned on salt curing the meat to preserve it. They spotted some young catfish in the pond so prayerfully there would be a harvest starting next year. Life was secluded with only the rare occasion of seeing a neighbor but he was very happy to spend it with Ana.
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Post by gipsy on Apr 15, 2024 8:40:55 GMT -6
Thanks for the update.
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Post by brucearmstrong65 on Apr 15, 2024 21:33:26 GMT -6
Great update to a great story.
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Post by prepguy on Apr 16, 2024 5:51:56 GMT -6
Good story!
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Post by tsam on Apr 16, 2024 8:01:50 GMT -6
Thanks for the update
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Post by iamnobody on Apr 19, 2024 17:22:04 GMT -6
His honey bees in the Layens hives were doing good. The Layens hives were long very deep hives designed to imitate what wild bees built for themselves. The hives had several inches of insulation between double walls to protect the bees from the winter cold. The regular Langstroth hives that looked like tall square columns of thin wooden boards were designed for the bee keepers convenience, not the bees. They were very hard for the bees to keep warm in the cold or to keep cool in the hot months. Jim had also caught local wild bee swarms that were acclimated to the local weather seasons. Most bee keepers bought 3 pound bee packages of bees that were bred in the south. Those bees were used to warm temperatures and died out in colder climates. Also he did not take most of the bees honey and then feed them sugar water all winter like most bee keepers did. Jim thought that was like feeding a person doing heavy manual work, candy and potato chips and expecting the worker to perform at top performance. He took about ¼ of their honey and left the rest for the bees. And his bees were thriving instead of dying off. Both Jim and Ana loved the honey on the cornbread she made and a teaspoon of it in his tea he drank most every day.
Over the rest of the summer, they had 2 more attacks on them, both a lot smaller than the last one. The next attack was from a group of 5 people, 3 women and 2 men. They walked down his lane and came right up to his home. The dog alerted to them by barking and Jim and Ana had their AR15s at the ready position. He yelled at them when they were at 50 yards out, telling them they were trespassing on private property. The group laughed and said there was no such thing as private property, everything belonged to Lucifer and Gaia. One of the women said they could see by their unmarked faces that they were not worshipers of Lucifer and Gaia, they would have to kneel and worship them now or be killed. Jim and Ana opened fire. The group had 2 handguns, 2 single shot shotguns and an old lever action rifle.
Jim shot the woman as she started bringing up the rifle. The 55gr bullet entered her upper chest, upset and started tumbling and yawing, ending up coming out her neck and squirting blood all over the woman standing next to her. That woman dropped the shotgun she was holding and started wiping at the blood all over her face. Ana had been about to shoot her but switched to the man next to her holding the other shotgun. Her 5.56 bullet struck him in the face, taking off his lower jaw and exiting out the back of his skull. With his brain now like mashed potatoes, he dropped to the ground with barely a spasm. Jim and Ana moved on to the man and woman holding handguns that they were now shooting. They weren't trained in shooting and their bullets weren't coming anywhere close to them. Jim and Ana double tapped 2 rounds into them, causing their heart and lungs to be shredded, dropping them to the ground.
The remaining woman was still screaming because of the blood all over her. The dead woman had been one of her lovers from the night before. Jim was yelling at her to shut up and step away from the shotgun. Finally she stopped screaming and stood still, looking around at the other 4 dead people that had come with her. This wasn't like the other times they had encountered Christians and killed them, now they were on the receiving end of the killings. Jim and Ana had walked towards her and were now barely 20 feet away. Screaming “death to unbelievers” the woman yanked a large knife from the sheath on her belt and lunged at Ana, intending to kill her. Firing from the waist, Ana stitched 4 rounds up the woman. 1 round entering the belly button, upper stomach, lower chest and last one in the upper chest. The woman had a confused look on her face as she collapsed, dead before her body hit the ground. The next thing the woman was aware of was being in a dark place, very hot, in lots of pain and many screams from the darkness around her. She realized that Lucifer and Gaia were not God, as she soon added her screams to the many others.
Jim had Ana wait inside the house while he and the dog scouted around for any more enemy. The area was clear. They both started checking on the 5 dead people, removing the weapons and anything else of value. The lever action rifle was a 30/30, had a cracked stock repaired with screws and glue. It had 3 rounds of ammo in it and the woman's backpack held another 10 rounds for it. Both single shot shotguns were rusty and hard to open. One was a 410 gauge and the other was a 28 gauge, both had birdshot shells in them. Backpacks yielded more birdshot in #8 and #7 ½ shot. Of the handguns, one was a pistol chambered in 32ACP and the other was a 5 shot revolver in 38 Special. Backpacks revealed another 16 rounds of 32ACP and 12 rounds of corroded 38 Special. There were several knives and some dried jerky and snack size bags of trail mix. Jim just shook his head in amazement at what they had.
Ana gathered up the supplies to put away while Jim used the tractor to take the bodies and bury them. When he got back, neither one felt like eating a meal, so they sat on the porch with their rifles near as they sipped their drinks. Jim like his mint tea and Ana liked her coffee. They were discussing the poor guns and supplies the enemy had. The only conclusion they could come up with was that the “enlightened ones” either didn't trust their followers or they were scraping the bottom of the barrel for supplies.
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Post by sniper69 on Apr 19, 2024 17:38:46 GMT -6
iamnobody - thanks for the latest chapter. Is it to early to ask for MOAR?
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Post by gipsy on Apr 19, 2024 18:05:27 GMT -6
They are paying for their errors
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Post by feralferret on Apr 20, 2024 0:06:55 GMT -6
Iamnobody, thank you!
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Post by prepguy on Apr 20, 2024 6:05:00 GMT -6
Thank you. Good story
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Post by rep1270 on Apr 20, 2024 9:58:25 GMT -6
Thank you. Ralph
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Post by iamnobody on Apr 20, 2024 13:29:12 GMT -6
They harvested the garden produce, they having to can it in the jars. They did it on the porch stoves to keep the heat out of the house. They had noticed that their health was better and they felt so much better with eating the wholesome homegrown food from the garden instead of store bought or restaurant food. And Ana had a glow about her. Startled, Jim had a thought and asked Ana when she had her last monthly cycle. She started saying it was just the other..... then stopped to think, then saying it was 2 months ago. Her eyes got big as she thought what that meant. Him and her had been having sex regularly, sometimes more than once a day since they married with no pregnancy, now it looked like she was pregnant. Jim said he noticed she had a glow about her as he took her in his arms and she laid her head against his chest. She was happy, he was happy.
And then a bullet pinged off the porch upright near them. They dived for their rifles, then searching for a target. The dog came running around the porch, then barking in a direction near a large tree at the edge of the field. They could see 2 people at that distance of 200 yards. Jim hurriedly whispered in her ear, then they both opened fire at the 2 figures who quickly ducked down. Ana continued shooting til her magazine was empty as he darted behind the barn to circle around them. Ana kept sporadically shooting and the 2 people would occasionally fire a shot back. Sometimes she heard the bullet strike the porch, sometimes it hit the house. Jim had made it unobserved into the wood line, making his way around behind the attackers. He was on the lookout for more enemy but didn't see any.
Cautiously he made his way close to the attackers. Ana could see him getting close and was shooting to the opposite side of the attackers to keep their attention. Soon Jim was close to them, just yards away with them partially hidden behind some brush. He could hear them talking. It was a man and a woman. He heard the man saying he hoped this trip would be worth it, how dare they be shot back at. The woman said it would be, the priestess had promised to pay them $100,000 each to kill Jim. Jim was all attention now, they had come for him as a person. Moving a little closer, from a distance of 20 feet he yelled out for them to drop their weapons and stand up with their hands raised.
He heard rifles being dropped and then they slowly stood up. Jim ordered them to step out into the field. Ana was soon there as Jim was standing behind them. She stopped and then told Jim to look at them. He came around to their front and saw his dad and mom glaring at him.
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Post by sniper69 on Apr 20, 2024 13:46:57 GMT -6
oh cliff made his presence known. What will Jim do? the three S's? Only another chapter can tell.....stay tuned for more of this great story.
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Post by kansasterri on Apr 20, 2024 15:40:06 GMT -6
OH! dear!
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