Ghosts of Noodlemass Past

By T S Paul

The War with Earth looms over everything. It is overshadowing even Noodlemass, the Holiday Celebration of Athena Lee's planet. Refugees have no where to go and children are trapped out in the cold without shelter. The best solution is to use local Hotels to put them up for the winter. One problem with that. The owner won't sell or even lease.
What will Wilson and his gang of cybernetic heroes do to help? Wilson provides his unusual spin on a Christmas Classic!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Great God Pan Publishing, Inc
• Release date: Dec 9, 2016

T S Paul

I'm now into my second year as a published author. With over 25 works under my belt already my pace is relentless. Writing was never a goal of mine growing up. I really did fall into this accidentally. My wife and family knew of my love of books and urged me to try writing. It wasn't until an author i befriended gave me a short push off a long pier that i really gave it a go. And what a go that was! Athena Lee and Agatha Blackmore have given way to over 50 short stories. I write a lot. The future is in books and I'm in it for the long haul. Keep your eyes peeled for New and exciting things coming from me this year. I'm Excited, are you? This year i have expanded into the wonderful world of Cookbooks. I changed careers in the early 2000s switching from Retail management at Waldenbooks and going to Culinary School at L'Ecole Culinaire-Saint Louis in Missouri. Graduating near the very top of my class i moved on to work at the Renaissance Grand Hotel for my internship and later Masterpiece BBQ in Chesterfield, Mo as kitchen Manager. My co-writer and partner in crime for the current Tie-in cookbooks is Taki Drake. She is both an fiction writer and recipe hoarder like myself. Expect to see much more from her in the near future as she will be writing inside my Federal Witch Universe. Recently I allied myself with Phoenix Prime. Late in 2016 a group of authors entered into the Phoenix Prime writers course sponsored initially by the 20books to 50k Facebook group, of which i am a original member. I was involved with the group from it's inception and its sole admin moderator for half a year. Writer, Psychologist, and Computer security specialist extraordinaire Kat Lind chose to teach the class. Several other Authors were asked to mentor and teach special classes. I was honored to be asked to do some of that. The Group is made up of over 30 authors across all Genres. Many are just starting their publishing careers and i expect greatness from them. Keep your eyes peeled for New and exciting things coming from me this year. I'm Excited, are you? Check in at my Website for more information and Free stuff https://tspaul.blogspot.com/ For Coffee Mugs, T-Shirts, Tote Bags, and a whole lot More http://phoenixprimerising.com Born a Witch Drafted by the FBI! Conjuring Quantico Magical Probi Special Agent in Charge Witness Enchantment Night of the Unicorn Invisible Elder - TBD Blood on the Moon - TBD Child of Darkness -TBD A Draft of Dragons -TBD Cat’s Night Out, Tails from the Federal Witch Audio Coming Soon Darkness Revealed Standard of Honor Series Shade of Honor Coven Codex -TBD A confluence of Covens -TBD Conflict of Commitments -TBD Standard of Honor -TBD Cookbooks From the Federal Witch Universe Marcella’s Garden Cookbook Fergus Favorites Cookbook Marcella's Summer Bounty Cookbook - Coming Soon Marcella's Autumn Harvest Cookbook Athena Lee Chronicles The Forgotten Engineer Engineering Murder Ghost ships of Terra Revolutionary Insurrection Imperial Subversion The Martian Inheritance Infiltration Prelude to War War to the Knife Ghosts of Noodlemass Past Athena Lee Universe Shades of Learning Space Cadets - Coming Soon Short Story Collections Wilson’s War A Colony of CATTs Box Sets Chronicles of Athena Lee - Books 1-3 Chronicles of Athena Lee - Books 4-6 Chronicles of Athena Lee - Books 7-9 plus the prequel The Federal Witch: The Collected Works, Book 1 The Federal Witch: The Collected Works, Book 2 Standalone or tie-ins The Tide: The Multiverse Wave The Lost Pilot Uncommon Life Kutherian Gambit Alpha Class. The Etheric Academy book 1 Alpha Class The Etheric Academy Book 2 Anthology's Phoenix Galactic The Expanding Universe Book 2 Cupid’s Bow Mysterious Hearts Haunted Hearts Non-Fiction Get that Sh@t off your Cover!

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Chapter 1

I have never understood the need for humans to celebrate a season and an event that didn’t even take place on Hong Kong. They call it Christmas. Which I find funny, because actual Christians are a minority here. Within their own religions, the people here call it Noodlemass or Yule. It only snows at the planet’s polar regions, and those are almost inaccessible to most. Nevertheless, they celebrate the holiday. The colony ships are to blame for the whole thing. When they arrived, they were still on Earth time inside the ships. None of the colonists took the planet’s rotation speed or time to complete a planetary revolution around the sun into account when they set up the calendar. Even though it was faster, and the days were much longer, they clung to the old system. It was only after a hundred years of poor record keeping that they changed it to a much more manageable system. Landing Day was the holiday that replaced Thanksgiving on the old calendars. The early Chinese colonists called it Westernization and changed it. That puzzled me. Why did they care about Cowboys and Indians? Too much TV on the ships. I had a ‘Duh’ moment. For a computer that is bad.

Wilson’s Folly is the name of a restaurant in the food court on Freedom Station. It used to be the Robbie Burger’s newest location. I sort of screwed up the grand opening and had the manager arrested. What can I say, he pissed me off. Again. Robots are not slaves. That is one of my personal crusades. It helps that most of the robots crawling, walking, or gliding here on the station are mine in one form or another. It was all part of my much greater and more intricate plan. A small group of RAM robots runs the Folly now. They make and serve food to humans. Strange concept for a bunch of robots, but it works. It’s the most popular restaurant on level four.

Doing my security camera trick, I hopped over to see for myself their progress. I could have asked them, but where is the fun in that? I was watching workmen decorate the exterior of the place when I noticed my best friend and host Athena Lee enter with her girlfriend Dar.

I don’t see what the problem is Athena. He’s in your head and most likely listening to us right now. I still think that’s a bit creepy by-the-way. The two stopped just inside the door.

Dar, honey, I told you what he said about that! Whenever we get … intimate, he transfers to a robot or something. He knows we need our privacy too. As for the other thing, I just don’t want to ask him. I truly think we can handle that one on our own. The man is human; he will see reason eventually.

"Eventually? Damn it,