by TarnishedPenny
A minuscule grouse;
in the 2nd to the last line it should read "tail" rather than "talk"
Great story! Very well written and easy to follow. The intro was very interesting how you made things work to the point of the story. Almost sounds like the COVID19 and the violence going on now. Just hope we don't progress now as they did in the story, I'm not ready for the nukes, lol. Still, kind of scary, just hopefully not prophetic.
Again, well done and thanks
Delayed gratification was worth waiting for, made easy by great storytelling and commentary on the human condition.
I think “hoarded” not “horded” was what you meant early on:
“ …smuggle a carefully-horded ex-Soviet nuke…”
Biologo - Oops, quite right. Thanks and thanks for you your comment in general.
Exceptionally well written story. Very interesting with great dialog. I'll take a look at another couple of your works, but I'm thinking you're going to become a favorite author.