Don't Go Home for the Holidays
A Tale of Spies, Aliens,
and Really Bad Timing
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Interlude
From: Alan Orion, Head of FUTURE
December 31, 1995
Report # 92222
Message Begins:
I knew something had gone wrong. I knew it the moment I couldn't find the Sangre sisters.
It hadn't been a good assignment -- that little bit of theatrics that drew so much attention that CNN even mentioned us. My superiors were not pleased with the reports of knife fights, arrests, TV coverage and bombings. It did no good to tell them that the Vananadanians had caused the entire problem by trying to grab the briefcase. The Van weren't even supposed to be on Earth at all, and it was my job to keep them out.
I had not told the Council that my two top agents had disappeared. No, no, no. They knew enough about the Sangres that such news could have caused panic through a half dozen worlds. I wondered where the hell Morning Star and Morning Glory were. I didn't like to think what they were planning.
Someone in the organization had turned on them, and nearly got the two killed -- someone high in the organization. I knew I wasn't the one, but that left a lot of open ground between the Sangres and me. There were, as far as I could tell, about seven hundred FUTURE employees, both in the field and The Office, who'd had a chance to set the two up. I suspect that I'll find our traitor somewhere in the higher one hundred of those. I'm just trying to figure out if I want to find him before the Sangres do.
I do know I don't want to get in the way.
December 31, 1995
Report # 92222
Message Begins:
I knew something had gone wrong. I knew it the moment I couldn't find the Sangre sisters.
It hadn't been a good assignment -- that little bit of theatrics that drew so much attention that CNN even mentioned us. My superiors were not pleased with the reports of knife fights, arrests, TV coverage and bombings. It did no good to tell them that the Vananadanians had caused the entire problem by trying to grab the briefcase. The Van weren't even supposed to be on Earth at all, and it was my job to keep them out.
I had not told the Council that my two top agents had disappeared. No, no, no. They knew enough about the Sangres that such news could have caused panic through a half dozen worlds. I wondered where the hell Morning Star and Morning Glory were. I didn't like to think what they were planning.
Someone in the organization had turned on them, and nearly got the two killed -- someone high in the organization. I knew I wasn't the one, but that left a lot of open ground between the Sangres and me. There were, as far as I could tell, about seven hundred FUTURE employees, both in the field and The Office, who'd had a chance to set the two up. I suspect that I'll find our traitor somewhere in the higher one hundred of those. I'm just trying to figure out if I want to find him before the Sangres do.
I do know I don't want to get in the way.
posted by Zette # 7:12 PM 
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About Me
- Name: Lazette Gifford
- Location: Nebraska, United States
(Official Bio)Lazette Gifford's published work includes two chapbooks and half a Double Dog from Yard Dog Press (Honor Bound, Star Bound and Farstep Station). Her story, Between a Rock and a God's Place, appeared in the Issue #21 of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine and she's had numerous stories published in ezines, and small press anthologies. Her novels include The Dark Staff Series and The Singer and St. Jude Series from Double Dragon Publishing, Muse and Ruins from One More Word Publishing, and the upcoming Mirrors from Zumaya Press. Lazette is the owner of Forward Motion (http://fmwriters.com), a large on-line community for writers, and she is the editor for Vision: A Resource for Writers (http://lazette.net/vision), now in its seventh year of production. She is also the Associate Publisher for Dragon Tooth Fantasy, an imprint of Double Dragon Publishing.
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