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Open Ground: After bullies harass William, he moves to Wyoming to live with his father. Open Ground explores the drama of human relationships through a boy's struggle to maintain family.

Later that summer, his father is falsely accused of a crime and jailed. William mountain-bikes across Wyoming to stay with his aunt -- applying the knowledge his father had imparted -- defying the perils of nature.

Topics in this middle school novel relate to math, science and technology with social themes applicable to grades 5 and 6 core curriculum. Free E-Learning kernels, available at Site3e.Com, are effective self-contained units. Forsaken Rock, a Kindle novel available at SmithLiterary.Com is applicable to grades 7 and 8 studies.(Kindle $0.99 at Amazon.Com.


Forsaken Rock: NASA Leadership decide to send criminals to their Mars colony for long-term incarceration. Rather than allow their world to be corrupted, settlers on the planet break ties with Earth to become an independent world. Mirrid Wolf inadvertently kills a young security man to protect her child.

Eleven years later, the people of Earth invite Marian colonists to the Olympic Games. Mirrid oversees the Marian Team as recently elected Chief Council of the Red Planet. Toemoe Sol, head of Sol Corporation, contracts an assassin to disrupt the competition by shooting Mirrid's daughter, Daara. Marians are then blamed for a terrorist attack that kills over 300 spectators. Conflicts challenge Mirrid's untried leadership. (Kindle $2.99 at Amazon.Com.

Indivisible: The United States' economy has tumbled after two decades of fighting terrorism worldwide. An Army helicopter lands on a remote New Hampshire mountain. Troops witness an unbearable sight: sixty Cub Scouts slain by an unmanned automatic weapon intended to catch smugglers. The President orders the soldiers to depart immediately -- and maintain absolute secrecy. Cover-up of the Dixville massacre begins. The brutality to New Hampshire's children ignites national support for a rebellion to instate government reform. (Kindle $2.99 at Amazon.Com.

Alienable Rights: This novel champions the American family through the main character Traften Brown. He flees Boston with his baby after a confrontation with a gang leader. Traften finds a place in Vermont as a member of the Island Pond Covenant, a local organization formed to supply the community with food and medicine. As a former electrical engineering student at MIT, Traften designs a communication system for the Vermont group. They accept him in the community as their own. Leaving his daughter with a family in Island Pond, Traften returns to Boston and rescues Ruth. While in Boston, he rediscovers his heritage. A descendant of William Carney, a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, Traften carries the medallion throughout the conflict. The heirloom haunts him, a reminder of forebears who had fought for him. Rather than abandon the city for an easier life in the North Country, he stays to confront his enemy. (Kindle $2.99 at Amazon.Com.

Blair Smith was born at home in the heart of Amish country in Holmes County, Ohio. He graduated from Ohio Northern University majoring in Technology and Education, later obtaining a Masters in Technology Education from the University of Vermont. A writer for ten years, the author has completed six novels that range from Science Fiction, to Thrillers, to a Middle School Reader.


NEWS 3E

Wednesday, January 13

Chapter 9g


Tumult's Attack Packs in Old Boston (the evening of March 15)

Four rebels held a captured gang member down and outstretched his palms as Demig drove a 20-penny spike through the Black man's flesh into a sheet of three-quarter-inch plywood.

"Ahhhhh! I can't tell you what I don't know. Please! Please! I can't help you. The gang leaders were Sable, Pumice, and Tar. I told you that." The gang member turned the other way as Demig held the nail to the pad of the other hand and solidly swatted the spike with the hammer through flesh and bone into the wood below. "Ahhhhh!" The victim's face beaded with sweat. His mind raced to understand why the southerners tortured him--"Sable's place is on Washington Avenue. I told you that."

Tumult's Mountain Boys had occupied a rundown housing project in the heart of Boston. Dark, sooted buildings exposed the structures' jagged features: broken windows, fallen sections of brick, crude textures of masonry. Gads of CB antennas pointed to hope across the skyline.

Spiked to the plywood and looking up at a water-stained ceiling, the Black man regretted pulling a gun on one of the rebels. Now, dull light from a propane lantern illuminated the walls with a beige glow. The people before the lamp performed their macabre drama on the shadowy wall, where black-hearted antagonists acted out a ghastly scene. He watched the prone silhouette on the wall and wondered if it was really him.

"You told us that before," said Demig. He walked over to Tumult who instructed a recruit, and waited for a break in conversation, "Sir, I don't think he knows rat shit."

Tumult ignored Demig and continued instruction. A few minutes later, the recruit returned to his pack, leaving Demig and Tumult alone: "Well," said Tumult, "finish him off by nailing down his feet." He thought a bit. "And put one through his face. Sink the head of the nail right to the cheekbone. I can't stand a man that whines." Tumult turned about, ready to check out another attack team.

"But, sir. He doesn't know."

Tumult nodded his head and paused. "That's not the point." He explained in a quiet, polite manner, "See, we're establishing relations with the indigenous people here. When the gangs see us on their turf, I want them cowarding in corners, not taking potshots at us from windows and doorways. That spiked up afro will send a message to all the monkeys out there, and in turn, we'll have fewer casualties. When I'm finished, they'll be giving us all their motor-guns."

"I see."

"Well, that's the problem, Demig. You don't see."

"Sir?"

"How long have you been with me?"

"Three years."

"I would think by now you would know you don't question the chief's orders."

"Sorry, sir."

"Demig, you're a valuable fighter. In fact, you're like a little brother to me, but don't question my judgment again or your ass will be nailed to a board, too."

"Yes, sir." And Demig knew he meant it; he knew what Tumult was capable of.

Tumult's technician, Glitch, stood out of hearing as Demig finished his conversation. Unlike most of the men in all three units of the Triad, Glitch was pushing sixty years of age. Though not officially a commander, technicians were respected and gave orders because of their vital importance to the group. They stayed out of firefights, going into risky situations only to fix tactical gadgetry. Glitch was lean, and a heavy smoker. Deep wrinkles streaked his face and neck, particularly his forehead when he squinted or smiled. He had previously worked outdoors as a power-line repairman. Glitch was an amiable man and beyond those years of having to prove himself to anyone. "Excuse me, sir," he said to Tumult who turned to face him. "I'm getting a jamming signal to the northwest, bearing 315 degrees. The signature matches our equipment."

Tumult put his hands on Glitch's shoulders, squinting his eyes as a snake-lipped smile formed, "Chaos is on his way. Is it so close that we can't listen to local radio?"

"We can get local stations."

"Glitch, let's you and I go in and roll ourselves a smoke and listen to what the media says is happening. Then I'll make my guess at what that sly son-of-a-bitch is up to." They walked to the back room, Tumult's arm over the older man's shoulder as though they were old pals.


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