Decision

By Frank M. Robinson

The captain had learned to hate. It was his profession—and his personal reason for going on. But even hatred has to be channeled for its maximum use, and no truths exist forever.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Start Publishing LLC
• Release date: Apr 21, 2016
• ISBN: 9781682991855

Frank M. Robinson

Frank M. Robinson brought us The Towering Inferno, one of the most popular films of the '70s, as well as the 1950s classic, The Power. His novel, The Dark Beyond the Stars, won the Lambda Literary Award. He lives in San Francisco.

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Decision

By Frank M. Robinson

Start Publishing LLC

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Decision

By Frank M. Robinson

The captain had learned to hate. It was his profession—and his personal reason for going on. But even hatred has to be channeled for its maximum use, and no truths exist forever.

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The battle alarm caught him in the middle of a dream, a dream that took place in a white house in a small town in Ohio, when both he and Alice had been very young and the grown adults he now called his children had really been little more than babies.

He rolled out of his bed immediately on hearing the gong, as any good sailor would, and slipped into his pants and shoes and felt around the bulkhead for his life jacket. He slipped into it and tightened the buckles, then put on his cap with the captain’s insignia.

He opened the hatch and stepped out into the passageway, blinking for a moment