Everyday including holid.., p.24
Everyday, Including Holidays,
p.24
"What was yours, Dad?"
"Humanity. I like to think that's one of my better decisions. Not just the one to let them run things, but to protect them. How's Arthur and Joseph doing? Still pestering you with questions?"
"Sometimes, though not as much as they used to. I think the biggest unasked questions now are 'what were you doing before you came back' and 'are you going to leave us again'."
"Why, we were doing what lions do!" the First said, and looking over at Sean, he grinned. "Working on our tans, sleeping, screwing, putting a paw in when we thought it was needed, and laughing about the stupid shit humans do when it wasn't."
"I don't think they'd buy it," Sean said with a shake of his head.
"Course not, it's the truth. But they're not the ones you've got to worry about."
"I know. The ones I have to worry about are the ones who come along a hundred or two years from now once we've dealt with all the djevels."
"Yup. Honestly? We'll leave again. Most of us will. It's a lot easier for us to come and go now, so we will. It's our nature, after all; we protect our home, and when it's safe, we relax."
Sean nodded, then stretched and yawned. "I think I need to do some relaxing. Night, Dad."
"Night, Son."
End
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Afterword
First, LGOPs. I'm sure a number of you are wondering who or what that is, and for those of you who didn't bother to search for it, LGOP stands for 'Little Groups Of Paratroopers'.
After the demise of the best Airborne plan, a most terrifying effect occurs on the battlefield. This effect is known as the rule of the LGOPs. This is, in its purest form, small groups of pissed-off 19 year old American paratroopers. They are well trained. They are armed to the teeth and lack serious adult supervision. They collectively remember the Commander’s intent as “March to the sound of the guns and kill anyone who is not dressed like you”—or something like that.
This is right up there with the foreign generals who declare that all war is chaos, and the reason the Americans are so good at it is because chaos is all the American soldiers know. While I don't know much about foreign militaries, my experience with our own would seem to bear this out.
Now! As always, if you enjoyed the story, please review! At the very least, rate it, but I would greatly appreciate a review. Four and five stars are positive reviews, three and fewer are negative reviews—yes, three stars on Amazon is a critical or negative review. Now if you didn't like the book, a negative or critical review is only fair. But if you did like it, four or five would be greatly appreciated.
What comes next? Well, honestly at this point, I don't know. This was supposed to be only one book to bridge the setup into the next series, which starts about 16 or 20 years after this book ended, about Mihalis. There may be something about Sean, Jr., or even Troy (Sean's second son with Roxy, he's a male cheetah lycan). But a lot of that depends on how things with Mihalis goes.
But I'm wondering if I need a second bridge book or not. This isn't exactly a Valens Legacy book, and the next book I write will be the first Valens Heritage book, so other than the title of this book, I've got zero ideas (at this time) for any kind of subtitle on this one.
Anyway, let the shilling commence!
As you know I also write under the name John Van Stry, and have a few things going on there as well. The main difference is those titles tend towards FTB, and some of them have Harem aspects; they're not all Harem. If you haven't looked at it, you might appreciate my Portals of Infinity series. It's currently at 10 books.
Some Recommendations:
Some other people I enjoy reading in this genre, and you might, as well:
William D. Arand (aka Randi Darren) – Please check him out, he's good. I've been a big fan of William's since I discovered his work. It was kind of a funny moment for me when I found out he was a fan of my stuff as well. I'm honestly beginning to suspect that he can't write a bad story, because every book he writes is just so much better than the one before. I just finished Swing Shift, and it was great. You should really buy his books.
Blaise Corvin – The Delvers books are really a lot of fun and very much worth it. When I first came across his Delvers LLC books, I almost felt kind of jealous, because I was like 'why didn't I think of that?' I do think if you like my stuff, you'll like his as well, so check it out! And definitely give the Nora Hazard book a try ('Mitigating Risk' is the first one), I'm reading it now and really enjoying it.
Michael-Scott Earle – Yes! Michael-Scott IS back, he's just not on Amazon anymore. If you want to find him and read his works again, please go here: https://www.michaelscottearle.com/books-1
One of these days I'm going to bribe him to finish Lion Quest. Please check him out, and if you can, support him. He's another great author.
Hondo Jinx – I'm a big fan of Power Mage. Lots of action, lots of fun. I love that his main character is a former Bull Rider. Those guys are crazy!
Daniel Schinhofen – another great author you should consider checking out as well.
They're all good people and great writers.
If you're into 'Harem' type fiction, you may also want to check out this group on Facebook to see who else is writing it that you might like: https://www.facebook.com/groups/haremlit/
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