The Man with the Finger and the Rank

By Eric Stringer

Mr. Kristen dreams of world domination. Finally his chance comes. He finds himself in a launch bunker with the red button before him. Yes, that red button. And what he launches will not soon be forgotten.

• Language: English
• Publisher: StoneThread Publishing
• Release date: Oct 14, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370821730

Eric Stringer

Eric Stringer (the borderline psychotic persona of Harvey Stanbrough) is a miserably failed newspaper reporter whose father was obsessed with one soft spot after another and whose mother didn’t love him enough to care that she didn’t love him enough. She swapped him to a camel jocky she met along the border in southern California for a hit off his crack pipe and a swing on his banana hammock. Eric was born in poverty and clawed his way up to debauchery and tearing the wings off young maidens. Once he got out of prison for failing to vote multiple times in an election (he lived in Chicago at the time, and the law’s the law) he began to write stories about all the strange and unusual things he saw. Some of them were actually there. See more of Eric's work at HarveyStanbrough.com.

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The Man with the Finger and the Rank

Eric Stringer

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The Man with the Finger and the Rank

Phase One. Strategic.

A man with a finger and the rank to use it sat on a cushioned chair at a console.

He looked about.

The others, at their own lesser consoles, were not paying attention. Their reports were filed. Their disbelief that the time had finally come was set aside. Barely. Anticipation filled their every pore, the space between their anxious eyes, the dead air at the entrance to their ears.

All eyes were on him.

He