My Cousin Elmo says, “You know we’re in trouble when science is searching the galaxy for intelligent life everywhere but Earth.”

During a recent tour of Donovan Mill in Gold Hill, Nevada for a newspaper article on the historic mineral processing plant, I heard a disembodied voice say, “Hello!”  While there, I took about one hundred photographs of the place. In this one frame, jus’ beyond the large cyanide vats on the second floor, I captured…

The lead vessel ‘Dragon ’ dropped from hyper-drive and hovered outside of the thick radiation belt. Navigating the belt would leave the one thousand ship armada visible for a few minutes, but that was the chance that had to be taken if their objective were to be obtained. It had been a difficult time on…

The Trump campaign may have lost its Nevada court case, but questions about Nevada’s election system remain unanswered. The Trump campaign “never once presented sufficient evidence of widespread fraud,” Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford tweeted. “Yes, they spouted nonsense in the media. But they never backed it up in court.” Ford and other government officials…

We had jus’ stepped out of the southeast corner of the main building, which was still under reconstruction. The woman volunteer was explaining how, the walls had buckled and the grizzly, which is used to separate different grades of ore, had been left dangling precariously in the air. Next to me was a man, another…

Few things are more direct than offering people the chance to win Visa gift cards for voting and it’s not a widely used strategy, because federal law, 18 USC 597 to be exact, prohibits offering or making “an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote.” “Whoever makes or offers to make…

It was a quiet morning as Brady sat by the campfire, nursing a cup of hot coffee with a touch of whiskey in it, and cooking a thick piece of bacon. It was around the same time that he heard a curious sound from behind, so he turned to look. Of all the sights he…

My Cousin Elmo says, “Sky watchers beware as Pluto will be in direct alignment with Uranus, so avoid bending over near strange dogs.”

The black rotary telephone rang and Agnes picked it up, “Hello?” On the other end was a female in hysterics. She was screaming something about “get him to the hospital now, before he dies.” Then the line went dead. “Who was that?” her husband, Bill asked. “I don’t know,” she said, “But she sounded really…

Sonny figured that with a pandemic sweeping the world, he’d lock himself away in his home and do nothing but eat, drink and write. After all, he was a world-renown author and he’d always longed to do exactly that. But that was over 270 days ago and no one had seen him since. Finally, a…