Live To Kill: The Prologue from the 3rd Steve Dane Thriller
Brian Drake strikes again with another action-packed adventure!
By Brian Drake
FEAR.
That’s what Steve Dane saw in Nina’s eyes as they faced each other across the table. She swallowed more of her screwdriver, poured immediately after the departure of Number One, after the older man had provided Dane with the name of a man who possessed information about his father’s death.
“Do you want to talk about it?” Dane said.
Nina set down the glass.
“No.”
“Number One can sure drop a bomb, can’t he?”
“It would have been nice if you told him to get lost.”
Dane fingered the piece of paper in his hand, the one he wanted, on the one hand, to burn and forget; on the other, he wanted to leave everything in the hotel room as it was and confront the man right away.
[Click here to purchase Skills to Kill, the first novel in this series, on Amazon. And click here for book 2, Another Way to Kill. Book 3, Live to Kill, can be found here.]
New Fiction: Cain’s Knife
By Lou Antonelli
The Detective sat down heavily opposite the suspect.
“We know you did it, we have a witness who saw you throw the knife into the reservoir,” said the Detective. “Why did you do it?”
“Toss the knife into the reservoir? Because it’s dangerous and I thought it was a good idea.”
The Detective frowned. “No, kill Joe Markham.”
The suspect scratched an eyebrow.
“I have no idea what you are talking about.”
“You killed Joe Markham in the alley next to the Western Auto store last night.”
How To Build A Successful Canadian Musical Act
Deconstructing Canadian Culture, Part 7: Who I believe to be the quintessential Canadian band
By Josh Lieblein
Have you ever watched Drake’s “Hotline Bling” video and wondered just what the earthly hell is going on?
How did this morose, strangely-dressed, monotone-voiced, wacky-waving-inflatable-arm-
PreTeena: November 12 – November 18, 2018
Sunday Comics!
By Allison Barrows
You won’t want to miss these hilarious cartoons depicting the ups and downs of adolescence. Now each week’s strips will debut on Sundays as the lead strip of Liberty Island’s Sunday Comics feature. If you draw a comic and would like to have your work featured on Sundays, please contact us: [email protected] Check out Allison Barrows’ new PreTeena blog here.
10 Sunset Photos I Shot This Month
By David M. Swindle
*Submit your photographs of nature and the outdoor life to [email protected] to participate in this weekly feature exploring the natural world.*
34 Ethical Questions Raised by Elevating Artificial Intelligence to Human Legal Status
By Tamara Wilhite
There are a number of ethical questions raised by raising artificial intelligences to the same legal status as a human:
If an AI is legally “alive,” is turning it off considered sedation or murder? Are there limits on turning one off?
Does an artificial intelligence have a right to access information? Is internet access for it a right akin to the freedom to walk down the street for a human?
The Greatest Conservative Films: Dirty Harry (1971)
By Eric M. Blake
Editor’s Note: In April of 2017 writer Eric M. Blake began a series at Western Free Press naming the “Greatest Conservative Films.” The introduction explaining the rules and indexing all films included in the series can be found here. Liberty Island will feature cross-posts of select essays from the series with the aim of encouraging discussion at this cross-roads of cinematic art with political ideology. (Click here to see the original essay. Check out the previously cross-posted entries on Jackie Brown, Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Unforgiven, Hail, Caesar!, Apocalypse Now, Fight Club, Man of Steel, Batman v. Superman: Dawn Of Justice ULTIMATE EDITION, Wonder Woman, Kill Bill, Gran Torino, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Blazing Saddles, The Magnificent Seven, and Shaft.) If you would like join this dialogue please contact us at submissions [@] libertyislandmag.com.
Check Out the Start of Book 2 in the Steve Dane Action Series
Brian Drake’s Another Way to Kill is packed with thrills
By Brian Drake
THE LIGHT over the fuselage doorway turned from red to green, and for the first time in many years, Steve Dane jumped out of a perfectly good airplane.
His insulated jumpsuit blocked the harsh cold of the night, but he felt the icy blast on his neck and most of his face. Goggles with built-in night-vision capability covered his eyes. The goggles gave the ground below a greenish hue. As he fell through space, he scanned for a dot somewhere in the forest below. Dane pulled the rip cord; the parachute billowed out of his pack and jolted him violently as it blossomed. His descent slowed. He grabbed the risers over his shoulders, and continued looking for the dot.
His lady and partner-in-crime, Nina Talikova, was supposed to be down there with the landing beacon. They faced a tense situation in Bogota. If something had happened to her—
He found it.
[Click here to purchase Skills to Kill, the first novel in this series, on Amazon. And click here for book 2, Another Way to Kill.]
New Fiction: The Last Pistoleer
By David Churchill Barrow
Rancho de San Miguelito, Chihuahua, Mexico – May 14, 1916 – High Noon: “HALT!” yelled the young cavalry lieutenant, as the threehorsemen riding out of the gated archway veered away from the men he had posted on the southeast side of the hacienda and headed at full-gallop towards him. They had apparently been alerted to make their escape by the man skinning a dead cow in the yard that had run into the ranch house as the soldiers approached, and then came back out again, nonchalantly resuming his work.
“Damnit!” The lieutenant dropped the Springfield rifle he held in his left hand – useless with three riders less than twenty yards away and closing fast – and drew the Colt “Peacemaker” he’d picked up on order in El Paso just before deploying south of the border.
1918, American Remembrance
By David Walls-Kaufman
World War I, The Great War, 1914-1918, really is one of the most poignant chapters in America’s extraordinary history.
1) Imagine – America gathers up a million troops and throws them at another continent where wages an atrocious, industrial war that Americans have no fight in.
