I think we’ve all found ourselves in a situation like this at some point – on both sides. Not knowing what to say, on the one hand, and not knowing how to respond to something you know someone wants to say on the other. And yet, both of these characters, even though they don’t really realize it, have shared the same experiences – in more ways than one. Mmh. What a world.
Anyhow, I’m going to be brief this week, as work is ramping up and free time is diminishing – I’m coping with a 50% staff cut on my work team, so, well… THAT’S going to be fun to deal with this week. We’ll all find a way to get through it though, I suppose.
So, until next week, all the best, folks!
What becomes of the broken hearted?
🙁
Been there. Might be there again, sometime soon. :/
Poor kids. Well, poor kid and poor enamored fortysomething veteran soldier. It’s funny, the most interesting people to write about are the most twisted up. But I guess we’re all twisted up inside, in our own unique way. Frankly it’s something of a minor miracle that any of us manages to sort themselves out enough to be functional.
The worst part of having one’s Feelings rejceted is not having choosen to have those feelings in the first place.
It’s like loose:loose.
Horrible way to loose a friend. Alas I know what I’m talking about.
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I think I’ll go throw up now. All those years and it still hurts. xp
I feel ya, man. You never get over it, you just learn to live with it.
Who had love that’s now departed?
“Somebody should start talking before one of us dies of radiation poisoning.” 🙂
Nothing like genuine incentive, I suppose.
Interesting how quickly Sarah’s hair is growing back in. Has it been a couple of months since the end of the last chapter?
I was wondering who might notice. 😉
Incidentally, my hair grows about a quarter inch per week. Maybe I’m a more retrograde species, though. Who knows?
Same here. It takes real effort to avoid having long hair, if I don’t want it.
*cough cough* … *paper rustle* … *sniff*
Hah! That was the original dialogue on this page, actually.
Would you like to go the the conference room and share a cup of awkward silence?
Interesting map on the wall!
Namibia annexed by the Union of South Africa? No real surprise there.
Angola part of the Disrecognized Territories instead of being an inseparable part of the Kingdom of Portugal like Mozambique? That’ll be a story.
Were the disrecognized zones rightful colonies that were illegitimately given independence by unconstitutional governments after the commies overthrew Europe, but where the reinstatement of proper government proved to be unteneble?
In this world, Namibia wan never Namibia, it was German Southwest Africa, and it became one of the five constituent states of the Union of South Africa in 1924. Also, South Africa in this world is a permanent member of the Security Council and an atomic power.
Portugal is a stickier thing – Salazar never came to power and so Portugal was a constitutional monarchy resembling Britain more than Francoist Spain. Angola is one of the big problem areas – UNITA conversely to our own world, has strong ties to the Communist bloc, more opportunistically than ideologically. The problems there and in Katanga are the main reason for the declaration of the Congolese Disrecognized Zone – the FSR recognizes these areas as “independent republics.” Mozambique, on the other hand, is an independent Portuguese commonwealth, nominally under the exiled King of Portugal but for all practical purposes independent, and for all that, relatively stable. Their planes can be seen running Early Warming missions at the end of Chapter 2.
Obviously the Germans never lost their colonies so they still had holds in Africa. So fewer monarchies failed after World War 1 than in our world. Did I forget, no Second World War so it is still referred to as the “Great War” and this present conflict is WW2?
I’d love to see Africa just once get an orderly and stable government, whether “good” or “bad” doesn’t really matter just that it works (preferably for the people there).
I don’t know, Botswana is doing pretty well. Kenya, too. And Tanzania.
So how about those Canucks… oh wait is Vancouver gone? I mean I am at a loss of words in the silence.
Wellp.
Nothin’s easy, I guess.
One can have a stable govt and still have rebels and terrorists. Depending on what first world country may be interfering like the USA or UK etc.
Or Russia. Or Iran. Or China. Or anybody, for that matter.