Roswell Fanatics

Chapter 31 "All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire." - Aristotle Life is short- -but the years are long Not while the evil days come not. Source: Identifying slogan of the Howard Families in Methuselah's Chi...

Chapter 30 (only) He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire. ~Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu The primary avatar of Max Evans paused in mid-earth orbit. A shimmering shell crackled around him as he held his family’s escape pods by tethers of energy. As he floated, the extrater...

Chapter XXVIV But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be inhabited? Are we or they Lords of the World? And how are all things made for man? -KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy) “Okay, do you want the long version, or the short version?” asked Max Max and Liz looked very “couply” sittin...

Chapter XXVIII "There exists no separation between gods and men one blends softly casual to the other." Proverbs of Muad'Dib Dune Messiah Liz stretched and mumbled in her sleep. Her lovely arm drew out and reached out unconsciously for him. Liz snapped upright, quickly finding several thi...

(((INTERLUDE)) "Let us cast our minds back in time and far, far away from the green hills that we call home. Far across the endless reaches of the universe to a small colony of five inhabited planets in the horse-head nebula. Now look down, down, down through azure clouds. Across endless barre...

Chapter XXVII To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. ~Dan Simmons, ("Rise of Endymion", 1997) Maria was the first to reac...

Chapter XXVI If all else perished, and he remained, I would still continue to be; And, if all else remained and he were annihilated, The universe would turn to a mighty stranger ~Wuthering Heights, Chapter Nine . Several moments later his friends gaped in wonder as Max stopped in his tracks. It was...

Chapter XXV “What do you despise? By this are you truly known.” "Manual of Mua’'Dib" by the Princess Irulan. Dune “Max is that you?” Liz asked the darkness. Words could not describe the joy when her darling pinged on whatever radar she had grown in the brief time they had been separated. ...

Chapter XXIV "All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. Hold out baits to entice the en...

Chapter XXIII My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; The more I give to thee The more I have, For both are infinite. ~Shakespeare "Ugh, Maxwell, you gotta lay off the Crash-burgers man" Michael mumbled. Slowly he eased his slumbering friend off his shoulders and into a sit...