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You Support This Site When You Buy My Books E.C. McMullen Jr. PERPETUAL BULLET "'Some People' ... may be the standout story in the book." - John Grant, Infinityplus E.C. McMullen Jr. WILLOW BLUE "'Willow Blue' will burrow under your skin and stay there long after you've put the book down." - Jeffrey Reddick, Creator of FINAL DESTINATION IN OTHER BOOKS E.C. McMullen Jr.'s short story CEDO LOOKED LIKE PEOPLE in the anthology FEAR THE REAPER "This Ray Bradbury-esque is one of the most memorable and one of the more original stories I've read in a long time." - Steve Isaak, Goodreads HORROR 201: The Silver Scream Filmmaker's Guidebook featuring RAY BRADBURY, JOHN CARPENTER, WES CRAVEN, TOM HOLLAND, E.C. McMULLEN Jr., GEORGE A. ROMERO, and many more. And In CINEMA E.C. McMullen Jr. Head Production Designer MINE GAMES (Starring: JOSEPH CROSS, BRIANA EVIGAN, ALEX MERAZ) Production Designer UNIVERSAL DEAD (DOUG JONES, D.B. SWEENEY, GARY GRAHAM) Art Director THE CRUSADER (COLIN CUNNINGHAM, GARY GRAHAM) |
In 1979, the nation of Canada, after decades of having watched their best, brightest, and savviest flee across the southern border for better opportunities in the U.S.A., took a good, honest, (relatively) sober look at their ultra polite, non-confrontational culture and said, "Gotta do sumpin', eh?" So they sent their dullest (even by Canadian standards) pacifists to the far side of the moon – to build a base where no one on earth would ever have to look at them.
20 years later the incompetent boobs went and blew up their own god damn moon base, sending a large, rolling doughnut-sized fragment containing the remains of their entire colony, hurtling out into space. Before losing radio contact, the colonists blamed the explosion on all the nuclear waste they were storing. Which fooled no one but 9/11 Truufers and their ilk. There is a reason why they are called "spent fuel rods" and that's because they are SPENT! Anyway, some Brits thought the whole disaster was a hoot and made this documentary, SPACE: 1999. That was before the great Space Time warp of 2000 created a new sack of alternate earths with diverging timelines (my bad and I can't apologize enough for it*). The upshot for us on this earth, is that the whole moonbase thing never happened and we got a Thrilling TV show out of it from the mid-1970s (about as thrilling as competitive numerology). Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey can get messy. *Originally the 1990s Star Wars Special Edition trilogy and the Star Wars Prequel trilogy also never happened – and still hasn't happened in most alt-timelines. I am so, SO sorry! END Story by E.C. McMullen Jr. Copyright 2014 E.C.McMullen Jr.
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