Serendipity

By Paul Carlson

The Ancient Secrets Klub gathers at a plain dinner table, yet their efforts often reach across the globe, and sometimes beyond. A lot can happen over a tasty Italian meal.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Paul Carlson
• Release date: Sep 27, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310302794

Paul Carlson

Paul Carlson is a science fiction author, and member of SFWA. He also rants and raves about a wide variety of topics. He's a delivery truck driver to pay the bills, and a gardener and hiker and such on the weekends.

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Serendipity

by Paul Carlson

Copyright 2014 by Paul Carlson

Published by Paul Carlson at Smashwords

ISBN: 9781310302794

Original cover image by Wikimedia user John Jason Junior, modified by Paul Carlson

Leonardo Watson looked around the bistro, comfortable with its familiar details. The place was quiet, no surprise as it wasn't due to open for several hours. Narrow red-curtained windows cast a wan light into a room full of wooden tables, cozy and round with white linen. Taking advantage of the early hour, the owner's cat Schrödinger relaxed atop an empty table, sated with kitchen scraps from the previous evening.

Leo pouted. I wanted to make this meeting into a field trip. Go see the mission control room. He liked impressive technological arrays, and his own climatology lab had few equals on Earth.

Three members of the Ancient Secrets Klub occupied their favorite table, in a corner near the kitchen door. On this special occasion, one young guest graced them with her presence.

Rabbi Naomi Rosenblum was in charge for this meeting; as much, under ASK's arcane traditions, as anyone might claim such a definitive role.

You understand our ways, Rabbi Rosenblum told Leo, with good