Skating the Edge Working Outline

Skating the Edge

Chapter 1

1.1 Teaser

1.2 Dedication

1.3 Acknowledgements

Chapter 2

2.1 Prologue

2.2 The Bank Robbery

Chris gets in firefight at the bank. Three robbers are killed.

2.3 After the shooting

Chris gets relieved of duty.

2.4 Depression sets in

Chris fights depression resulting from the shooting and his life collapsing.

2.5 Mission Interrupted

Chris meets the Jade Queen

2.6 Elizabeth's Story

Elizabeth becomes the jade queen

2.7 A Leap of Faith

Chris lets Jade walk away

2.8 Out of the Fog

Chris leaves for San Diego

2.9 covenant and bonnet

Chapter 3

3.1 the Jungle

3.2 A trade of goods

3.3 Shawn Cutter

3.4 The Airfield

3.5 Interrupted flight

3.6 Death of a Trooper

3.7 Identifying a killer

Chapter 4

4.1 Virgo-six

4.2 Trial by fire

4.3 Druthers estate

4.4 Druthers security

4.5 Prepared to kill

4.6 Assault on Druthers

4.7 Emergency services arrive

Chapter 5

5.1 A displeased Director

5.2 Jacob Bonnet

5.3 Unseen funds

5.4 Farmvville, VA

5.5 The Church

5.6 the White Room: a nasty place

5.7 Rubbed the wrong way

Chapter 6

6.1 Ian Welch

6.2 Warrant issued

6.3 The Plan

Chapter 7

7.1 Port of Entry

7.2 A failed crossing

7.3 Sergio Fuentes

7.4 Waiting

Chapter 8

8.1 Death of an Attorney

Chapter 9

9.1 Dos Santos

9.2 battling the cartel

9.3 retribution

Chapter 10

10.1 shawn cutter makes a hit

Chapter 11

11.1 Changing servers

Chapter 12

12.1 Jade kills

Chapter 13

13.1 The SCIF

13.2 Trainign counter hackers

13.3 Detected

13.4 Seeking answers

13.5 Answering to Bonnet

13.6 Wanting names

Chapter 14

14.1 Camp Henry

14.2 SCIF protocol

14.3 North Korea Incursion

14.4 warning messages

14.5 Pandora

14.6 purging data

14.7 Purging loose ends

14.8 Death of a brother

14.9 movement

Chapter 15

15.1 sailing on the bay

15.2 ron cant find lee

15.3 contacting the FBI

15.4 need to merge this with other scenes in chapter

15.5 Lassiter calls Korea

15.6 The Church listens in

15.7 Ollivette investigates

15.8 Church listen

15.9 a team is missing

15.10 Chris has a nightmare

15.11 Chirs senses danger

15.12 Ron and chris prepare for the unknown

15.13 run to rogers

15.14 Lassiter gets killed

Chapter 16

16.1 Council mobilizes resources

16.2 connecting the killers

16.3 listening in

Chapter 17

17.1 tracking the prey

17.2 missing the target

17.3 roger and nikki

17.4 diverting resources

17.5 hunting the maxima

Chapter 18

18.1 kingman

18.2 news break

18.3 cyclone tracking

18.4 making it to parker

18.5 satellites tracking

Chapter 19

19.1 geo on line

19.2 monsoon

19.3 martinez lake

19.4 the cabin

19.5 the chase

19.6 on foot

19.7 mercy

19.8 el morro

19.9 ron's capture

19.10 the calvary

Chapter 20

20.1 ron and the white room

20.2 interrogation

Chapter 21

21.1 mexico

21.2 the raid gone bad

21.3 white house conference room

Chapter 22

22.1 scoping the church

22.2 the jcs talks

22.3 units mobilizing

22.4 the gold room

22.5 cjs reading the files

Chapter 23

23.1 gold room buzzing

23.2 war room

23.3 presidential announcement

23.4 assembling

23.5 firewall is a go

Chapter 24

24.1 dominoes

24.2 cabinet meeting

Chapter 25

25.1 tracking the killers

Chapter 26

26.1 missile launch

26.2 michael returns to the church

26.3 church gets lit up

26.4 white room raided

26.5 clearing the white room

26.6 black angles

26.7 clearing the church

Chapter 27

27.1 General Tyler knew it wasnt over

Chapter 28

28.1 JCS press conference

28.2 recovery

Chapter 29

29.1 aftermath begins

29.2 humiliation of the cia

29.3 aftermath

29.4 jade queen ponders the past

Chapter 30

30.1 the joint chiefs get interrupted

30.2 a disappointed drug lord

30.3 transferring pandora

30.4 chris after the shooting

Chapter 31

31.1 looking for an intruder

31.2 virgo six missing

31.3 cessna forced landing

31.4 booked into county jail

31.5 cartel gets violent

31.6 some dead traitors

Chapter 32

32.1 a change of course

32.2 joint chiefs find a thread

32.3 the gold room

32.4 dispensing of routine matters

32.5 hunting for carlos

32.6 death of colllege students

32.7 confronting the president

Chapter 33

33.1 chris meets jcs

33.2 A Team is missing

Chapter 34

34.1 Ron seeks solace

34.2 Epilogue

Chapter 35

35.1 Holding back the flood water

Chapter 36

36.1 N/A

12.21.12: Mark Your Calendar!

Title:____12.21.12:mark your calendar!___________________________

1. Story Details

Mayan disaster 2012

Man sees a documentary on mayan disaster predicted in 2012, and goes through life from 2006. as date approaches the public and media speculate. The day before the stated disaster there are some minor earthquakes, but nothing major. End of the story is the day after when there is nothing alive on earth just storms and waves etc.

2. Story Theme

3. Major Subplots

a)government is actually trying to colonize the moon before the disaster date. But subtle hints are given. After the disaster, the scene shows violent storms across the ocean as it fades back to show the earth as a whole, violent storms are everywhere. The scene pans to the moon and closes in, where a large scale colony can be seen… machines and vehicles moving about the surface.

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The Calendar

By

David C. Woods

Charles woke from his four hours of sleep, sitting up he pulled a legal size page off his face that had stuck from the drool. Passing out would be a more accurate term. Charles had collapsed after having reworked the calculations a dozen times. He could find no error in the end result. Charles felt sick to his stomach and ran to the drab blue bathroom of his lab and vomited promptly across the floor.

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The polar correction was sudden and merciless. Electrical storms lashed out across the surface of the earth as torrential rains came down everywhere. Tsunami wave upon Tsunami wave crashed violently into each other covering the once dry lands of the continents. Aircraft were ripped from the skies as air pressure rose and dropped. The atmospheric winds ripped the wings from the very frame. The electrical storms made the instrumentation useless. The magnetic fields of the earth split into tens of thousands of magnetic points. Compasses spun blindly without end. Ships and boats on the sea were tossed about and swallowed whole, and shred in the unforgiving rage of the oceans as they rose and dropped thousand feet. Submarines tumbled at the mercy of the seas, twisted and crushed as the pressures changed on the hulls in a moment. Bodies, buildings and cities were swallowed up by the unfettered waters of the earth.

Death Warrant

Title:___Death Warrant____________________________

1. Story Details

A secret court that issues death warrants. After the warrant is received the person has 48 hours to turn themselves in. Once people start recognizing the envelopes they stop accepting them. The warrants start to get placed in cereal boxes etc. Someone hacks into the court computer and the nine judges receive their own death warrants, ending the court.

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Orwellian type story

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Death Warrant

Byron Adler had worked for the Ministry of Justice for the last seven years. During that time he had entered the large marble columned building and entered it’s two toned green walls and headed to the stairs. The lime green over dark green bottom paint was supposed to mellow those employees of any excitement. Into numbness, Adler thought to himself. The old oak stairs smelled of generations of polish, smoke, and the weariness of clerks trudging to and from their stale offices.

This day was like every other day, as he walked to his desk. The same desk he had sat in from the day he was hired. Sitting on the far left corner, was his in and out box. The inbox mysteriously filled with files sometime between the time he left at 7 o’clock pm, and the time he arrived at 6:45 in the morning. He did not have to be at work until seven. However, he had learned that at 7:05, Jonathan Millhouse, his immediate supervisor, was asking for an overview of the files in the inbox. Five minutes was not nearly enough time to break the files open, much less appease the humorless tyrant.

The right side of the desk held a small cup with four sharpened number two pencils and four black ball point pens. Adler also had one red pen that he kept in his drawer for highlighting notes that Millhouse would dictate to him. In the drawer with the red pen, Adler also kept the stamps and ink pad. The stamps were simple stamps, with each containing a single word; Mercy, Confined, and Rendered. These were each euphemisms of the Ministry. Mercy referred to a prisoner being found not guilty. Confined referring to a prisoner being found guilty and Rendered, being the most perverse of all, Execution.

For the first three years, Adler had used Mercy and confined most of the time. Only once in those first years, had he had to use rendered to close a file. That fact had changed during the “week of burning”.

During that notorious and horrendous period, one hundred and ninety seven judges, and seven hundred and sixteen prosecutors had had been executed. A secretive underground movement, known as the Barnstormers that raided farmhouses and rural homes, raping robbing and murdering on a whim, had decided to protest the convictions of their compatriots. In doing so, they decided to execute any and all justices and all lawyers for the court. With extreme horror and precision, they carried out their task in one felled swoop. During the week of burning, a majority of the targets were killed in public, to include inside their very offices and courtrooms. The bodies were then set on fire, and left to burn. Most of the killings were done in the light of day, and in front of witnesses.

The killings subsided because the police were able to isolate a majority of the surviving justices and prosecutors, and whisk them into secure military installations. The Ministry of Justice along with the Ministry of Executive Council and the Ministry of Information Retrieval met in secret chambers to address this horror from the masses. In short order, the Court of Government Security was established. In order to prevent a backlash against the Justices and prosecutors, as had just occurred, the court would meet in secret. They would decide the merits of the case and issue either a mercy or a rendered verdict. Those that received a mercy verdict, could then be tried in open court, in front of a justice and jury. However, those that were rendered, would be taken immediately to incarceration and execution. The stipulation was determined that the subject of the trial would have to actually read the warrant, before it could be carried out.

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The Sweet Tooth Conspiracy

Title:___Sweet Tooth Conspiracy___________________

1. Story Details: Sarah, a public health advocate stumbles across a conspiracy between the pharmaceutical companies and the food manufacturers. The two industries develop a win fall program. The foods we eat create new illnesses and the pharmaceutical companies supply the treatments not cures thus creating a customer base, and high cost treatments.

2. Story Theme: an innocent woman is pursued by corrupt industry, but she fights back.

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a)Conspiracy between pharmaceutical companies and food companies to maintain

a supply of sick individuals due to food ingredients.

b)politicians that are bought and sold

c)the underdog doesn’t always win the good fight.

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a)how does she learn of the connection?

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d)how does she win? Escape? Etc.

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a)Sarah

b)Senator Welch

c)Food bad guys

d)pharmaceutical bad guys

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Sidekick Description: sidekick is man that tries to come to her rescue, but he fumbles on occasion. During a chase scene, he rounds a corner and is shot in the head.

The Sweet Tooth Conspiracy

Sandra threw her purse on the table and dropped the mail in the basket. Another glorious day in paradise. The phones began ringing almost immediately. The senator’s office was always bustling with activity. Even on he weekends. Sandra had worked for Senator Marcus Winters for the last five years. She had been lured away from her pleasures of life in Archeology, to be a liaison between his office and the scientific world. In hind sight she realized it was an attempt to silence her or to buy her loyalties. She had decided to stay and try to fight the system from the inside. Network, and build allies inside the senate. Sandra had seen some headway in protecting the environment, and archeological history, but the money had them out-gunned. She championed herself as a defender of the underdog. When complaints came in, they were routed to her. And come in they did., en masse. Everything from road improvement request, to school curriculum, to noise at airports and then some. Most of these were parceled out to other staff members to send the appropriate reply to. Sandra kept the deeper complaints for herself. Corporations stealing, littering, and conducting illegal activities. She would then forward the complaints to the appropriate agencies, and do follow-ups. She began to enjoy what she did but she was also overwhelmed. The complaints never ceased. And when the news media broke with a new consumer safety issue, a fresh batch of complaints flowed in, from newly concerned citizens. Today was no different. CNC had just broke a story about Momma’s Toys, IN using contaminated materials in their stuffed animals as well as carcinogenic materials in their plastics. Sandra took the batch of letters and emails into the senator’s office.

“Sandy, how are you? What is the war-cry today?”, the heavyset senator asked, rising from his desk with a plastered mask of concern.

“Cancerous toys, Senator”, Sandra said handing the stack of papers to the senator.

Novels in progress

My name is Dave and I am an unpublished author. I am creating this blog to help my further my creative pursuits. It is my desire to complete my first novel, Skating the Edge within the next six months, January 2008.

I have a number of books "in the fire", all of them in various states of progression.

1. Skating the Edge: A novel about two friends running from CIA assassins.
2. The Jade Queen: A sequel to Skating the Edge.
3. The Sweet Tooth Conspiracy
4. The Trunk: A story of one man’s predicament of upsetting two women.
5. Heroes of the Dream: A medieval tale of two friends.
6. Twenty-four Barrel Kings: A conspiracy of oil greed.
7. Betrayal of the Heart: A Love Story.
8. Adventures of a New Mommy and Daddy.
9. 12.21.12:Mark Your Calendar! The Mayan Prophecy end of the World as we know it.
10. The Don: A story of a retired gangster.
11. The Key: A murder mystery.
12. Death Warrant: A futuristic tale of Judicial misadventure.

And now onto skating the edge.