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Tilting at Windmills: Summer of the Chipmunk, Encore

Sometimes, life gives you a gift. It could be an ideal mate. It could be the dream house you’ve been fantasizing ..


Tilting at Windmills: Sweet Dreams

When your head hits the pillow … just right. You’re assured that you’ll sleep through the night. Your dreams … all are ..


Tilting at Windmills: Archie The Giant Chickadee: The Final Chapter # 32

It’s been several weeks now since D-Day, but we still cannot go outside without looking up, in fear of being ..


Tilting at Windmills: Archie: Misdirection.

Special Investigator Clayton Yonder, as Commander of the Campaign to Eliminate the Terror Bird, asked his boss, Jules Landau, to ..


Tilting at Windmills: Archie: Requiem.

What Archie said … the two words that struck far more terror into our hearts than an attack from a ..


Tilting at Windmills Archie: War is Hell. # 29

Over the past few weeks, Terror Birds had invaded five culturally significant sites within 20 miles of Park Department Headquarters, ..


Tilting at Windmills: Archie and the Day Before

With the exception of Gunny Hernandez, none of the members and/or leaders of the Avian Slaughter Task Force had backgrounds ..


Tilting at Windmills: Archie and the CPR Dummy # 27

So. I completely lost track of time. One minute, Archie the Giant Chickadee and I are eating take-out ice cream ..


Tilting at Windmills: Archie and Bootcamp #26

I did not personally observe what went on during early sessions with retired Marine Gunny Sergeant Noah Hernandez, but after ..


Tilting at Windmills: Archie and the Airborne Attack # 25

The instant I realized that Archie was among the missing, my hand tightened around Clay’s .38 revolver. I rushed past ..


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