5. Cooking the last of his rice on the Montana border. 6. Hitchhiking in the Montana sunset. EXT. CUT BANK, MONTANA - SUNSET 49 (SEPTEMBER 10 1990) 49 We see Chris hitching down a lonely two-lane road surrounded by fields and distant mountains. CARINE (V.O.) In early September, ...
At last, when the Empress Rhagaea granted me lordship of a newly liberated border city, I had a rich reward — and a precarious one. Now it was up to me to strengthen my garrisons, keep the city fed, and watch the frontier like a hawk, lest an enemy army snatch away my prize. My...
Alice’s two children are left in limbo; their crazy aunt Gail has turned out to be unfit, and their grandmother Beulah is clearly too near death herself to wrangle with two traumatized little girls. Upon Alice’s death, they dispose of their original names, Madeline and Eloise, and state ...
The introductory campaign, “Bruderkrieg”, and the first main campaign, “Fulda Gap”, both begin with the opening shots of the war, as East German and Soviet forces surge across the border. The US 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment must survive the onslaught and stage a fighting retreat until ...
Deep in the scrub hills of Jefferson County, about eight miles north of Punxsutawney, lay two towns, Panic and Desire, separated by farms, trees, and a narrow road. Returning from Pittsburgh one morning, I tug my steering wheel to the left, swing off the main highway, and motor up a...
In order to bring as much of their wealth across the border as possible, they left separately. They invited all their relatives to their wedding in the seaside resort of Scheveningen. Each guest brought them 200 Reichsmarks, which were then reimbursed by the fathers of the bride and groom....
It is also not all that far from the Canadian border. In wintertime, the weather can turn bitterly cold as the winds howl down the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains and out across the great flat plains of the prairies. In 1888, a series of real-life blizzards swept across those ...
The wife, usually a stoic woman, fell apart, wondering aloud how she was going to live without him because they had been so close. Yet two of their three children ended up divorced. This proves yet again that growing up with happily-married parents does not ensure marital bliss for ...
Why it never lowers the intense pressure of conflict along the Indian border? They are just gloating about the fact, “we give them a befitting reply”. Killing soldiers or counting who killed more is a zero sum game. You may keep killing more of their soldiers but you may still loose ...
THE SAND DUNES ON THE AMERICAN SIDE OF MEXICAN 95A BORDER - DAY Chris ports his kayak over the dunes, snaking a scar through the sand in his wake. Mexico in his sights. POV: Morelos Dam at the Mexican border. 96 EXT. MORELOS DAM AT THE MEXICAN BORDER - DAY (DECEMBER 96 2ND, 1990...