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  1. Nace Bilby

    Where the Truth Lies, 2013

    "Sometimes I Lie Awake. I Dream of Everyone. Who Walked the Path I Take. Who Ran Beneath the Sun." - Where the Truth Lies by the Exchange (Note, the song comes fro the Prince Valiant animated series theme. A link is below) --- Having just returned from Afghanistan Nace sat at an outdoor...
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    Annabel Lee, 23 June 2012 (from the old site)

    "And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling - my darling - my life and my bride, In the supulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea." - Edgar Allan Poe, Anabel Lee "Through me the city of woe." - Dante, The Inferno, Canto III. Edgar Allan Poe's Anabel...
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    Co-Written Regent Park, 2011 (From the old site)

    Co-written with @Carmen Sandiego. Preface Evey Hammond was a young woman whose life, while no more tumultuous than some others, would touch those around her in dramatic ways. Her defection from ACME, an organisation that promised her care and safety, routed her into the midst of V.I.L.E., an...
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    On Loyalty (repost from the old site)

    (Note: This journal entry initially appeared on the old site) "Loyalty, all we truly have." - Senior Chief Warrant Officer Jason Bilby, South African National Defense Force. Five very simple words that Nace Bilby always kept in mind. Layered with his understanding of Dante's The Divine...
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    Taking Goliath for a walk, German shepherds are quite active dogs.

    Taking Goliath for a walk, German shepherds are quite active dogs.
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    Q & A Your character's greatest obsession

    The study of history. This is largely due to how history had shaped my family. My grandfather apprenticed as a gamekeeper as a young man after the First World War where my great grandfather served but never returned. After 1939 my grandfather immigrated to Britain, serving with the British army...
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    ACME Nace's Arrival

    Nace picked up the small leather collar, but by the time he had the presence of mind to let Molly know of it she had wandered off. He briefly considered going to track her down, but then reasoned Goliath had given her enough of a fright as it stood. He picked up the collar and put it around his...
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    Co-Written Those Who Listen

    Lovely bit of writing.
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    ACME Nace's Arrival

    A few days later Nace had arrived at ACME after a lengthy flight from London. After finding a place to live and the like he was currently taking his German Shepherd, Goliath, to the latter’s least favorite location, the veterinarian's office. After his check was complete Goliath hopped off the...
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    Q & A Your Character's Favorite Food(s), and how come?

    I do like a basket of fish and chips, a classic bit of pub grub from my adopted home in the United Kingdom. On Sundays as a boy my father would take the family out for lunch after Mass, and there was a small pub in our neighborhood we tended to go to. Fish and chips was a favorite menu item for...
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    ACME Nace's Arrival

    (Co-written with Ivy) Chief Inspector Anthony Carlyle dialed a phone number to Detective Ivy Monaghan, ACME HQ. He had a call to make about his brother in law heading that direction. “Hullo, Detective,” Anthony said, initially getting Ivy’s voice mail, before Ivy picked up the phone, “I’ve...
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    Q & A Your character's favorite color, and why?

    I'm partial to green for a number of reasons. One being that like a large number of South African's I'm a Springboks fanl it's also the color of plantlife after a good rain, and partially also due to the constant exposure to clothes of that color (military uniforms and the like).
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