El Borak

El Borak is an historian by training, an IT Director by vocation, and a writer when the mood strikes him. He lives in rural Kansas with his wife of thirty years, where he works to fix the little things.

July 12, 2018

Bunch of Little Rotters

Over the years my tomato patch has produced respectable results.  But one of the problems I consistently encountered was called Blossom End Rot.  It happened first some ten years ago and grew
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February 19, 2018

What Did We Think Was Going To Happen?

Everyone, it seems, has a magic bullet that’s going to end school shootings. It’s part of our culture. The left wants one simple law passed and the right another repealed. Everyone on Twitter is a policy expert, Facebook is filled
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bugout boat

Where to Live XV: the Bugout boat

August 27, 2018
Captain Cathar attempts to make the case: Because of these challenges along any crowded coastline, I’d like to suggest that your readers consider a small sailing vessel as your bug out retreat.
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Strumplets, Part IV

August 13, 2018
Continued from Part III Dawen was waiting in the warehouse when Fossick arrived. The Rats were still gone. “Did you get it?” she asked. “I think so,” he replied. His expression betrayed
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Strumplets, Part III

August 10, 2018
Continued from Part II Dawen flinched as she awoke and held her eyes closed. The bed she was in was not her own. It was hard, spartan, and narrow. It smelled like
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Strumplets, Part II

August 9, 2018
Continued from Part I Dawen was alone in the kitchen of Daggers Drawn when the strumplet came in to get more mead. Wiping her hands on a dirty apron, she motioned the
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Strumplets, Part I

August 8, 2018
The girl lay in the road, clothed only in dirt. Her tongue, caked with dust, pushed out of her mouth and her limbs lay twisted. The soles of her small feet were
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asteroid

Where to Live X – Asteroid Edition

July 31, 2018
In early 2014, Scientific American reckoned the numbers of The Beast: This Sunday (June 8), the near-Earth asteroid 2014 HQ124—which some observers have nicknamed “The Beast”—will give the planet a relatively close
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