Wednesday, November 11, 2026

The Time Lord by Mack McColl Copyright 2026

Prologue
Nothing but Blue Skies
Chapter One - What fucking time is it?
All the children in the party turned to see Barry’s dad wearing a great big smile
Chapter Two - The decadent forest
Damned harsh judgment on those forests
Chapter Three - Expert with a chainsaw
He saw in his mother a generous soul.
Chapter Four - A shark bit me
“Bit my leg off right there.”
Chapter Five - Let’s go, Fatso!
The spell went unbroken for a long time.
Chapter Six - Watch the fucking television
“I’m sneaking it into the hockey game.”
Chapter Seven - “Where have I seen you before?”
“He’s d’guy dat was blowin’ his ‘own ‘orn Montreal-style tonight in Vancouver,”
Chapter Eight - Come here often?
“Don’t come back for the playoffs,” said the young man
Chapter Nine - “I am a rich man.”
Barry replied, dripping sarcasm, alluding to his father’s smothering technique
Chapter Ten - So we is white
His truck purred and snorted down the gravel road out of the town toward the highway.
Chapter Eleven - Good dog
He worked hard falling sticks of timber and drinking huge portions of beer at the Berns Landing Hotel tavern while dog waited in the truck
Chapter Twelve - Are you the man?
Just the man I wanted to see
Chapter Thirteen - Willie’s Changed
His dad made final progress on finishing the house, and Barry had to be there to do what his mother wanted, help his dad complete the build to the…
Chapter Fourteen - Where the skeletons are buried
He did stay below.
Chapter Fifteen - A warm heap
He reached over to his toolbox
Chapter Sixteen - Lucky Strikes
“No kidding, Dad. Smoking?”
Chapter Seventeen - “A ‘C’ not a ‘K’”
But he did not stop talking
Chapter Eighteen - I got nuthin’
She would soon be sad
Chapter Nineteen - Salmon Capital of the World
“Family is everything. And he had a big one.”
Chapter Twenty - Hallo stranger
A crowd of murmuring mourners had descended on the property
Chapter Twenty-One - What year are we in?
“It’s started with Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism analysis,” she said.
Denoument
With these crazy chapters of his life behind him, Barry was a new man, even if he looked a little bushed from his intensive multi-year study of red…
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