Landing Day: Dominion Confirmed

By Trevor Bruhn

This short story follows Dominion Vegas and ties up some plot lines in that tale. Julie Lansdowne , from Dominion Vote, is now Undersecretary of the Air Force in the U.S. military and has asked her family to join her in Las Vegas while she manages a special reception at nearby Nellis AFB. The reception is for the women of the Comporellian Empire, reaching Earth on a trading mission. They can offer planet-saving technology in exchange for virile young men from Earth.Our leading nations have all become matriarchies in recent years, thanks to the ubiquitous S&S gyms; thus the Comporellians see us as a civilized race and enter negotiations in a bargaining mode.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trevor Bruhn
• Release date: Aug 30, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463242605

Trevor Bruhn

Mature male, west coast USA

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Landing Day: Dominion Confirmed

By Trevor Bruhn

Copyright 2019 by Trevor Bruhn

ISBN: 9780463242605

Smashwords Edition

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

This is a work of fiction and all characters have been imagined.

Cover by Rita Toews of www.yourbookcover.com, from a cover image by Randy Lalonde via Pixabay free images.

Edited by Elizabeth Bryson.

Formatted by Brenda Van Niekerk of Triomarketers.com.

Table of Contents

LANDING DAY: Dominion Confirmed

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

TWO MONTHS LATER

LANDING DAY: Dominion Confirmed

TUESDAY

Honestly, Dad, Ellen said, feigning a weary sigh from the aisle seat. I know I wasn’t that dumb when I was a fourth grader.

Ellie, whined her little sister, Megan, from the window seat. All I said was, if Mom is the boss of the airplanes, she could make it go over Pike’s Peak.

Peter Lansdowne, sitting between his two daughters, would normally mediate a quarrel between them, especially in a place as public as a crowded flight to Las Vegas. But, as a former social studies teacher, he wanted to see if Ellen, with her eighth grade stock of knowledge, could set her little sister straight without a scene. Explain to her in a nice way what your mother does. Please, Ellen, he said softly.

Okay, Ellen said, huffing while secretly pleased to be called on to display her smarts. Mom is the Under-Secretary of the Air Force, which means she is boss of the military planes, the ones with a white star in a blue circle. We are on a civilian plane, which means it does not shoot rockets or drop bombs; it just carries people like us. The airline company decides where the pilot can fly the plane, not the U.S. Air Force.

But Mom could tell a military plane where to fly? Megan persisted.

Well, sometimes she can, but not if her boss wanted it to fly somewhere else.

Mom has a boss? Who?

Mom reports to the Secretary of Defense, Sandra Chenowith, and she reports to the president, Elizabeth Castle.

And who’s the president’s boss? Megan asked.

The people of the United States, but only once every four years, Ellen concluded with a proud smile. Elizabeth Castle had been reelected in the 2028 landslide victory,

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Quote from the book:
She very seldom beats me and when she does, I know
what I have done to earn it.
Stockholm Syndrome, anyone? How many women would say that to another woman at any time in history? Maybe an occasional one, but not too many women would enthusiastically praise being beaten by her husband. So why would a man do so in a matriarchy?