Stony Volcano

By B.S. Adkison

Careful, well thought-out plans and scenarios are woefully lacking in this adventure. Even an erupting volcano doesn't scare these young men- but it should! What were they thinking? Find that out and other things that will test your perceptions of the way things have occurred. Things that have for too long been hidden and secret. Unimportant things that have effected us all but still remain unimportant. Stupid truths that just don't matter but it is high time they were exposed for the sake of entertainment if nothing else. Read the tell-all short story Stony Volcano and hear the truth and you might agree, it just doesn't matter. Some tales go down in history, some are history, some are both and some are nether. This story is all of those things and none of those things. Enjoy!

• Language: English
• Publisher: B.S. Adkison
• Release date: Oct 21, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463741290

B.S. Adkison

Air Force veteran. Fleet manager for a contracting company.I Have built and/or restored several vintage racing and collector cars over the years. I Won a racing championship in 2010. I am an avid reader of mostly history, science and science fiction. I tend to find the topics of magic and time travel intellectually vacant, vacuous and tedious but don't let that discourage you if that sort of thing is your interest, it's my problem, not yours! I'm a hopeless romantic but I tend to shy away from that theme as well. (Too personal.) What little I do write regarding sexuality is usally from an unapologetic hetero-sexual viewpoint because of my comfort of that concept and I admit that I can sound somewhat near the verge of misogynistic, and I do apologize for that, but I certainly won't condemn, criticize or denounce anyone's differing views. Live and let live in freedom and peace is my viewpoint and I will fight like hell for other's rights in that regard if i have to, but, I insist on being able to exercise my own thoughts and opinions so please don't take it personally. Go ahead and hate me if you must but not the free-speech forum or the intellectual freedom that I exercise and love. I really just want to have a fun and pleasant life on this earth and I hope others also want that and I try to treat everyone well with that in mind.

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MAY 15, 1980

John, Tim, Roy and me, had gathered up a cooler full of lunch meats, cheeses, a loaf of bread and a large and varied supply of cans and bottles of beer. The food items were swiped from our parent’s fridges and pantries as well as most of the beer. This all was for our hastily planned road trip to Mount St. Helens, a couple of hundred miles south and east from us here in Kitsap county, Washington. Our curiosity had been fired by the local news reports, and we had time to kill because we had joined the United States Air Force on the delayed enlistment program and had quit our jobs with the plan of finding adventure that summer before our induction date later in the fall.

The news of the erupting volcano was made more fascinating by the powerful 'sticky bud' that we smoked as we watched the TV reports and the orders to stay away from the area, hit us as if it were a dare.

I have decided to conceal the full names of this small group of adventurers to protect their privacy because the entire adventure was inspired and fueled by the 'sticky bud'. For the sake of context, some history of that subject follows:

At this time in our small town and rural country-side, young people, such as ourselves, were introduced to Marijuana commonly at the ages of ten to thirteen. It fit in with the natural rebellious stage of young people and due